Any online-based company offering a product or service knows it needs a long and generally painful terms of service, privacy policy, etc. to protect itself from the cornucopia of legal disasters that can occur. Unfortunately, legal terms require a legal specialist (aka lawyer) and lawyers tend to be a capitol-draining, by-the-hour endeavor, especially for a small startup … Read more
What does venture capital have to do with SIDS? This is probably the question that comes to mind when those two topics come up in a single sentence. The answer? Saving the life of a child. Seymour Innovative, a small company started by Peter Seymour, has created a revolutionary piece of technology designed to monitor … Read more
The mobile market is exploding in popularity. In some parts of the world, mobile internet usage has already overtaken standard desktop access. Whenever you leave your house, you’ll likely see most people around you with their eyes transfixed by their smartphone — checking email, composing a tweet, or using an app. In fact, it’s the … Read more
There’s a certain thrill in snagging great seats to see your favorite band the minute tickets go on sale, but nothing kills that buzz like the looming service fees that can end up nearly doubling your final cost. For many, these service fees have been a source of frustration with Ticketmaster for years; since the … Read more
Joshua Elizetxe knows a few things about appraising the value of a website. In fact, he sold his first website when he was only 14. He used that knowledge and experience to jump into the field of brokering website sales. It was during this time that Joshua had the idea for BeenEvaluated. Joshua had tried … Read more
Remember TruePoints? AZTechBeat first met up with their team when we attended the Extreme Pitch 2012 Event at Gangplank. After taking 2nd place at the event, TruePoints was gearing up to officially launch their reward tracking program in Phoenix. Well my friends, that day has arrived! You can now sign up to use their service, … Read more
It takes a lot of guts to write a tell-all book about working for the largest social networking site in the world, Facebook. Phoenix native Katherine Losse, who now resides in Marfa, Texas, held nothing back in her stinging narrative, The Boy Kings, about being employee number 51 for the organization and grinding it out … Read more
July 27 through July 29, 2012, anyone with an innovative business idea, the passion to succeed, and the courage to register can build it during Startup Weekend Chandler. A 54-hour long entrepreneurial marathon. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event that draws developers, designers, managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing pros, and more together to build a new … Read more
I remember way back, once upon a time when I unboxed my first pre-iPod mp3 player — I was absolutely certain I had stumbled upon some alien technology. How could all my music fit on such a small little memory card? What would happen to all those burned CDs sitting on spindles on my … Read more
The way information is shared has changed constantly from generation to generation. In 1989, it was estimated that one weekday edition of today’s New York Times contains more information than the average person in seventeenth-century England was likely to come across in an entire lifetime. (Book: Information Anxiety, Richard Wurman) Can you imagine adding the … Read more