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Worlds Apart, But On The Same Page

YoungUpstarts

by Steven Starks, Senior Career Counselor at University of Phoenix. Steven Starks is a Senior Career Counselor at University of Phoenix. We have adapted to a new normal, moving our watercooler conversations to text chats and trading conference rooms for virtual meetings.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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7 Ways Academic Connections Can Assist A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I live near the Phoenix, Arizona area, home of Arizona State University. The Thunderbird School of Global Management, also in Phoenix, has a top-ranked International MBA and entrepreneur curriculum, a startup incubator program, and hosts a group of Angel investors to assist qualifying startups.

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Pitch Deck Month: “What Do You Do?” Slide

View from Seed

But at the time, online education was dominated by University of Phoenix, and no VC thought to themselves that a University of Phoenix degree was great, even if they had never taken an online course. From there, you can ask the investor if they are familiar with the market or problem, or want to pause for more context.

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[INTERVIEW] How LaMar Van Dusen, Founder Of Phoenix Management, Wants To Help Entrepreneurs Grow Their Businesses

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It’s tough having to wear every hat, says LaMar Van Dusen , who founded and leads Phoenix Management , an Ontario, Canada based full-service accounting and financial firm that also provides a range of business advisory services. The other issue is finding and making the case for the financial resources that will help them grow.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. You can get the whole story in my book, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win ). An increasing number of companies we are investors in are focused on DevOps.

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Celebrating the Phoenix

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In the book I am writing, I have identified a number of industries where companies got demolished by tech savvy competitors (Blockbuster, Borders and many more). But my research also highlights plenty of companies which have reinvented themselves with technology.

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