The cloud has revolutionized data access and consumption. It seems like most of today’s tech startups depend, in one way or another, on a cloud component. But, in 2007, pitching a cloud-based startup to a venture capitalist was like pitching a flat earth theory to Pythagoras: tough to sell. In that atmosphere, Bahan Sadegh saw … Read more
Ask any software company in Arizona what their #1 challenge is and the response is the same: Finding good software engineers. To secure some quality talent, Axosoft has taken a different approach by gifting a full line up of tech gadgets to any software engineer that comes on board between now and August 1st. Let’s … Read more
360Vantage founder Mario Martinez II didn’t come to Arizona expecting to launch his own company. But after years spent building custom CRM applications, managing large-scale sales operations and related IT projects at mid-tier companies, Martinez saw cloud computing as the natural next step. And so in 2005, 360Vantage was born. Now a leader in the … Read more
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
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
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
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
Choosing the right keywords is crucial for search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) strategy; however, it can quickly become an expensive and frustrating exercise in trial-and-error for many companies and industry professionals. Thankfully, SpyFu has taken the guesswork out of keyword selection and more—by allowing its customers to spy on their competitors’ keywords, ad … Read more