A local data company aims to make the college admissions process easier for students, and the management of education credentials simpler and safer for institutions and individuals. Venture-backed and headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Parchment Inc.’s mission is to “unleash education credentials by unlocking the critical data they embody.” Through the Parchment.com website, students can request, … Read more
CyrusOne headquartered out of Houston, TX, provides data center, managed hosting, colocation, and managed IT services in North America and Europe. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB). They have expanded their company into Arizona with this massive data center due to the infrequency of natural disasters in the state. Considered … Read more
We shred our documents, monitor our bank accounts and exercise caution when disclosing our personal information. But many of us still fall victim to some form of identity theft. According to a report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in November 2011, 7 percent of households in the United States, or about 8.6 million … Read more
Founded by local residents Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, they built and tailored the Infusionsoft platform to help small businesses reach their set growth objectives. Being former struggling small business owners themselves, both Mask and Martineau saw a need for their service. Beginning in 2001 as a custom software shop, Infusionsoft then received a total … Read more
Ten entrepreneurs pitched their startup companies at the 2nd annual Extreme Pitch event at Gangplank in Chandler Tuesday night. After the four-minute pitches, the seven panelists selected the top three finalists and the audience chose the winner. Here’s a breakdown of the startups that participated: Plexus Controls (Winner): Presented by Zoran Medic, the company’s mission … Read more
No matter what you’re looking for, chances are the first place you’ll go to find it is your favorite search engine. But unlike those 30-pound phone books we now use as doorstops, all business listings online are not created equal. For today’s businesses, a low ranking in search engine results due to poor search engine … Read more
Over the last decade years, more and more professionals have been able to forgo the corporate office environment and work from anywhere with an Internet connection. But while working from home may sound like a dream come true, it often proves to be amotivational and, frankly… lonely. Similarly, the “work from coffeehouse” model can be terribly … Read more
Last night, Gangplank Chandler hosted a second annual Extreme Pitch Startup Event. It featured ten local companies that participated in their Roadmap to Launch program. The room was filled with local talent, a group of esteemed panelists, and delicious food compliments of Chow Locally. The event began with each presentor being given four minutes of … Read more
We’ve come a long way since the days where it could cost tens of thousands of dollars to have a simple HTML website deployed. Nowadays we have access to hundreds of open source applications that allow for quick and agile site development. However, there are still some pain points with working with open source applications. … Read more
Meet CX.com. They are a Scottsdale-based firm providing secure cloud-enabled access, aggregation, and collaboration tools. Their user interface is similar to that of Dropbox or Google Drive. Free accounts include 10GB of free file storage to sync, store, and share all in the cloud. When we asked the CEO, Bradley J. Robertson on how CX.com … Read more