Curtis Gunn, Chairman of Desert Angels, is the first Arizona investor to be appointed to the Angel Capital Association Board, and will serve for three years. The Angel Capital Association is the leading professional and trade association supporting the success of angel investors in high-growth, early-stage ventures. “I look forward to raising the awareness of Arizona companies, … Read more
AZ Tech Beat highlights our entrepreneurs and visionaries in the tech space. This week Gabe Cooper, visionary behind Brushfire shares his journey to success and advice for startups.
After every natural disaster citizens and businesses have to find a way to recuperate from the damage and how to improve things for the future. After Hurricane Sandy created havoc in New York and datacenter outages started hitting New York’s high tech scene, ZocDoc became much more serious about opening a new office in Arizona. … Read more
With the reality of “business as usual” being gone by the wayside, AZEC12 gathered a talented lineup of speakers to challenge today’s entrepreneurs, investors, and organizational leaders to begin seeing things differently. They brought a new perspective, and good insights into how we can operate, profit, and flourish in today’s technology-driven, fast-paced “social sharing economy”. … Read more
Enterprise companies deal with a high volume of sensitive data, internal processes, file transfers and other business-critical interactions, so it is essential that these businesses are able to manage and secure these interaction networks while keeping up with current market conditions and regulations in a cost-efficient, streamlined manner. Founded in 2001, Axway provides enterprise businesses … Read more
The Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative was started in 2005 with a $5.5 million endowment with the mission of helping entrepreneurs and ultimately creating jobs in Arizona. Students who are enrolled at ASU can apply for the Edson competition in March by submitting a business plan and the finalists present their idea in front of a … Read more
If you want to be an entrepreneur, ASU is probably one of the best places you could be right now. A few years back, ASU president Michael Crow started an initiative to help make all of ASU’s colleges more entrepreneurial. Every college at ASU started offering business classes, so students wanting to start their own … Read more