Scott Salkin and Jerrod Bailey co-present 'Visual Storytelling' at FLFPhoenix May 9

Last month, the room was “ignited” by an inspirational talk from Tom McDermott, founder of Ignite, who expressed his principles on how individuals should be passionately curious in everything you do. Our next #FLFPhoenix event will feature a new method of innovating your product. For our May event, we are heading back to Axosoft in … Read more

How to be passionately curious in life and work – Tom McDermott – FLFPHOENIX talk

You’ve probably heard it from motivational speakers, entrepreneurs or maybe your mom, “follow your passion.” While this phrase resonates with many, including myself, there is another perspective of passion that Tom McDermott, founder of Ignite, posed to our audience at Free Lunch Friday Phoenix. “What about being passionately curious?” he asked. [youtube]http://youtu.be/7pAFY1wMEI8[/youtube] Tom explained that … Read more

SkySong Connect Conference – Innovators, Ideas and Inspiration – April 17th

SkySong is set to launch a multi-disciplinary network of researchers, technologists and entrepreneurs focused on growing the Valley of Innovation at the SkySong Connect Conference, which will be held at ASU SkySong – the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center. The inaugural event is sponsored by PayPal and is taking place on Thursday, April 17 from 9:30 a.m. … Read more

Tom McDermott, founder Ignite, speaks at FLFPHOENIX 4/4 at MAC6

Attendees of the February Free Lunch Friday walked away with helpful information from Tom Rusling, general manager of iAcquire, who gave insight into content marketing, the importance of verifying authors on Google and domain authority to a sell out crowd. Rusling expressed, “Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher … Read more

TiE Arizona celebrates 14 years with 14 new initiatives

TiE Arizona, an organization with global reach providing meaningful education, mentorship and networking for entrepreneurs,  announced 14 initiatives in 2014 designed to celebrate its 14 years of leadership in the community. With a refreshed website and many exciting new programs planned for the year, TiE Arizona is dedicated to continuing its rich heritage of fostering … Read more

Arizona ranked 2nd in nation for job growth

Unemployment spiked in October 2009 at the height of the recession, and it has taken over 4 years to finally see the recovery. Unemployment was at a low of 6.6 percent in the month of January 2014, which is a vast decrease from the highest unemployment rate of 10 percent. According to MarketTalks News ten … Read more

GoDaddy partners with Microsoft to offer Office 365 for small businesses

GoDaddy, the Web’s top platform for small business, and Microsoft Corp. announced today a long-term strategic partnership to offer Office 365 as GoDaddy’s exclusive core business-class email and productivity service to its small-business customers. This partnership supports GoDaddy’s ongoing push to deliver premium small business management solutions. Serving 12 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy has created a simple … Read more

What made Free Lunch Friday 2013 awesome – slideshow

One of the first events we launched in 2013 was our Free Lunch Friday series. Founder Danny Beckett Jr. wanted to put together a national movement that not only celebrated entrepreneurs and their hunger for growing a business, but to bring them together to network, learn, collaborate and even make friends. On March 29, 2013 … Read more

GoDaddy opens 14 new domain name extensions for small businesses

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, is offering 14 new domain name extensions for pre-registration as part of the new program to expand the Internet landscape. The new domain name extensions increase the inventory of available website addresses, giving users more opportunity to register memorable and relevant domain names. Watch our exclusive interview with … Read more