Next week, Tuesday, October 30th, the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference will run all day at the new and improved Gangplank HQ building in Chandler. For the seventh year in a row, this event has strived to bring entrepreneurs together, share pertinent and valuable knowledge, benefit the surrounding communities, and develop strong relationships between one another. Stated … Read more
Arizona’s tech community is heating up with new startups, established companies, new investors, incubators and various tech events throughout the valley. One of the biggest problems is just keeping up with everything that’s happening in the valley or even knowing which companies exist. Of course, that’s why we launched AZTechBeat and the Events calendar and free … Read more
Did you know that you could play a new golf course in Arizona every day for an entire year, and not play them all? That’s right, we have over 365 of them right here in our state. With our weather, high-end resorts, fine dining, and expansive shopping malls, Arizona has become a world renowned golf … 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
On May 20th of last year, AZ Disruptors hosted a “Pitch Day” featuring 15 of the valley’s best software startups. They were all competing for a spot in the AZ Disruptors Software Incubator. It was a packed event, and the room held about 80 people ranging in vocation from investors, to VCs, to software CEOs … Read more
This week, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) AppFog acquired Ahwatukee-based Node.js PaaS Nodester, giving app developers even richer multi-language cloud deployment support. Node.js is a popular new asynchronous Javascript library/framework for building fast, scalable realtime web applications. According to the Nodester blog, AppFog will run and maintain the Nodester service as it is, but it will also have Node support … Read more
The trend towards startup incubation is heating up in the Valley. AZ Furnace is the newest player to hit the scene, and they bring some heavy-hitting talent and resources. They are founded by local industry mentors and bring the likes of Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and Dignity Health alongside. These research partners will … Read more
Like his company, CEO Hamid Shojaee packs a bigger punch that he lets on. Standing next to him, you get the impression that his ideas are probably much bigger than he is, and that’s just fine for companies like Verifone, Lego, 3M and even NASA. That’s because these companies use Axosoft OnTime to plan … Read more
The last few decades have seen internet technology completely reshape many industries. Whether it’s the music industry, newspaper industry, or dozens of others–changes continue to happen at a dizzying speed. However, the education field has lagged behind when it comes to adopting new technology. There are lots of opportunities in this niche market–especially with the … Read more
Deployd was founded by Jeff Cross and Ritchie Martori to solve a problem that they had noticed during years of building applications for clients–the redundancy of building backends. The apps they were building always needed the same basic features–user authentication, validated/secured data, and a “front end” for users to interact with. Each time they built … Read more