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Five Arizona Companies That Got Some Funding
The other day I lamenting about “Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” and this week I noticed that the Phoenix Business Journal a list of entrepreneurs that found funding this year.
$10M Sharp Equity – A resource for buying homes [...]
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Last week at the Arizona Enterpreneurship Conference (AZEC), a panel from AZ TiE titled “Who Got Funded and Why?” talked for nearly an hour about the dynamics of starting up. Steve Swedler, Chief Product Guy at Gangplank asked finally stood [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank, Integrum, Personal, Startups
Tagged angel funding, authority labs, date designer, funding, Gangplank, held, Integrum, simple seating, vc
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Successful Startups Need Supportive Communities
A while back I was reading Paul Graham‘s “What Startups Are Really Like“. The whole essay is great, Paul has a way of really getting to the point and understanding the culture, pain and joy of startups. I am always [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank, Personal, Startups
Tagged arizona, Community, Gangplank, motivation, tip
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Challenge Conventional Assumptions
I have been reading “ThinkerToys” by Michael Michalko. I am going to try to do one Thinkertoy exercise per day (or at least a few per week). The goal is to help get my brain to be in a creative [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Personal, Startups
Tagged Creativity, discipline, Education, self improvement, thinkertoys, thinking, thinking outside box
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#PhxDreamTeam Part Deux
Recently I put out a VERY informal set of questions for an experiment, that ultimately got labeled the #PhxDreamTeam. I think activity on it has died down so I compiled the results and am sharing here. Note that it was [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank, Startups
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SkySong Has Risen (To What We Are Not Quite Sure)
Okay in my last post I said I had some gripes with a recent issue of “Phoenix Business Journal“. Let’s just say that the fact that we still devote a major spread to “Commercial Real Estate” when it’s in the [...]
Phoenix Ranked 29th For High Tech by Biz Journals
Opened up the May 29th issue of the Phoenix Business Journal after traveling almost the entire month of June and it was just loaded full of stuff that I have strong contrary opinions about. Perhaps I’m just tired and onery [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank, Startups
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Know When Told Hold Them, Know When To Fold Them
So the other night I was talking with a good friend and colleague Steve Swedler, who is also Chief Product Guy at Gangplank. We were talking about product development, the state of things in Phoenix and a myriad of other [...]
Posted in Gangplank, Startups
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Phoenix Startups, Which City Wants To Be Mob Friendly?
Metro Phoenix municipalities let me start by saying, “you don’t get it”. You have spent billions on things like light rail and revitalizing your down towns. You do this to look attractive to large businesses. You think if you can [...]
Just Fucking Do It!
Nike facing a losing battle to Reebok in the 1980′s hired advertising agency Wieden and Kennedy. Dan Wieden reportedly said “You Nike guys, you just do it” during a meeting. The rest is history. The slogan is pretty incredible because [...]
Posted in Gangplank, Startups
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