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Helping Find the Money To Make It
I read the Phoenix Business Journal every week as part of keeping up with business here in Metro Phoenix. I was floored when I read “Finding the money to make it“. What was incredible to me were the [...]
Creative Economy AZ (My Take)
Based on the Gangplank Futurespective, one thing I promised myself to investigate was Creative Economy AZ. This is an initiative to raise 1/10th of cent sales tax for the next 20 years to help fund the arts. I spent a [...]
Posted in Creativity, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, economic development, Gangplank, music, phoenix, policy, politics
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Komodo Dragon Heaven
Get out and explore one of the great resources in Phoenix. The Phoenix Zoo, one of the top five rated zoos for kids in the United States. Starting Nov 26th Zoo Lights opens up a holiday tradition for many residents. [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank
Tagged dragons, Gangplank, komodo, phoenix zoo, zoo, zoo lights
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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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Some Thoughts on the Future of Gangplank
Brandon Franklin was great in summing up his thoughts from the Gangplank Futurespective. First, let me say that we are thankful to have people that care enough about Gangplank to think about it’s future and actively engage in dialogue on [...]
Metro Phoenix: Where Awesome Happens
The other night I was sitting at work finishing up some things and the Phoenix Rails Meeting was just starting. After that meeting, we had a great discussion on MacRuby and some of what was in the future for that [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, Creativity, east valley, Gangplank, gilbert, Integrum, liberty market, phoenix
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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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Does Phoenix Need To Change?
Last night, had some great conversation at Gangplank Hacknight with Remi Taylor, Chuck Reynolds, Ed Nusbaum, Mark Ng, Steve Swedler, Byron Bowerman, Ryan Gasparini, Mike Benner and William Bradley about how we can stop making excuses about the environment we [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, chandler, economic development, Gangplank, gilbert, hacknight, phoenix
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How Do We Fix Phoenix? Solutions Are Out There!
A blog I started reading recently and suggested by Chuck Reynolds called Rogue Columnist, is pretty interesting. It highlights a lot of the problems in Phoenix from someone that was raised here pre 1970 and has since moved to [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank, Personal
Tagged arizona, downtown, economic development, Gangplank, motivation, phoenix, theory
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Pairing Programming In Loud Environments
At our Ruby on Rails development shop, Integrum we engage in an XP practice called pair programming. Over the last six months we have seen more interest from the community on some of our agile practices. At recent Gangplank Hacknight [...]
