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. Industry Commentary MORE
Dropoff has expanded its same day delivery for business service to Denver, Colorado and Phoenix, Arizona. The Austin-based startup expanded to other markets in Texas and to Florida and California last year. With the addition of these new markets, Dropoff’s same day delivery service now reaches more than 55 million people across the U.S. There […] The post Austin-based Dropoff Expands to Colorado and Arizona appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin MORE
The first Lift Off Retreat took place in Phoenix, Arizona in February, 2010. And so Charlie and I kept going — Lift Off 2 took place in Portland, Oregon in August, 2010, and Lift Off 3 in Phoenix, Arizona in February, 2011. Lift Off 3 in Phoenix, Arizona And we are doing it again! MORE
Austin-based ConfirmX has launched its Urgent Care Check-In Service in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix, Arizona. The company, founded by Dr. Sherard Houston, an emergency room physician, makes online search and check-in for emergency rooms and urgent care facilities easier for patients. And the company drives more business to the healthcare facilities. Dr. […] The post ConfirmX Launches Urgent Care Check-In Service appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin San Antonio MORE
Burlington, and Phoenix.). Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. MORE
Observe how Donald Trump used these tactics in a speech he gave in Phoenix before the election: First, he effusively thanked the believers: Wow. That’s a lot of people, Phoenix, that’s a lot of people. Thank you, Phoenix. MORE
Female entrepreneurs need to forget about creating unicorns. Women CEOs should aspire to new heights of leadership and success, on their own scale MORE
The nation's largest drug store chain told the blood-testing startup on Thursday to only send tests to a certified lab in Phoenix that Theranos runs, or to an accredited third-party lab MORE
Successful startup ecosystems that I have lived or worked in like Boulder/Denver/Fort Collins and Phoenix, have been built around Brad Feld's "give first" concept popularized in his book Startup Communities. MORE
Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver doesn't admire millennial culture one bit. He says technology may be to blame MORE
Phoenix-based developer Don Cardon shares the three life principles that have helped him complete high dollar projects like airports and skyscrapers. MORE
RetailMeNot, a platform for deals and coupons, Thursday announced that it has acquired Phoenix-based GiftCard Zen, a secondary marketplace for gift cards. The Austin-based company acquired GiftCard Zen for $22 million in cash and up to $11 million more if it meets specific targets and continues to employ a key employee after the deal closes. […] The post RetailMeNot Buys GiftCard Zen for $33 Million appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin MORE
Meet the startups that are thriving in Arizona''s capital city MORE
Startup weeks and weekends may be a relatively new concept, but they exist all over the country; growing entrepreneurial communities in cities like Phoenix, Washington, D.C., I’m partnering with Chase Ink and attending Denver Startup Week on their behalf. MORE
But on the flip side there is the Phoenix Effect. In the Phoenix Effect, customers know you have the ability to rise, but are currently below them, so they root for you and support you. If you are touting your business is #1 in your industry, you are not using the Phoenix Effect. MORE
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. MORE
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 ). This is why Kevin Behr, George Spafford, and I wrote 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. MORE
Here's how leaders of some of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. say the tech boom is affecting them MORE
ELON, N.C. (AP) AP) — Dmitri Thompson scored 22 points and Elon's bench almost matched Delaware's total in an 81-59 Colonial Athletic Association victory in Saturday night's regular season finale MORE
The company has six employees and offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Tampa, Florida, according to its LinkedIn […] The post Austin-based Revionics Buys Marketyze appeared first on SiliconHills. Revionics, which makes price optimization software for retailers, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Marketyze, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Onn Manelson and Nave Ronen founded Marketyze in 2011. MORE
More than 1 million items will be eligible for same-day delivery in 14 metro areas including New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Atlanta MORE
For example, I live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, home of Arizona State University. An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. MORE
My brother is the smart one in the family. Unlike me, who only flirted with the idea of going to law school, he did the time and got the degree. Unlike most law grads he didn’t go to a firm or join the in house legal team at a big company, he joined a startup servicing the legal market. The company he joined, Serengeti Law , had an interesting history. MORE
Your business model needs to be an effective combination of results-driven, customer-driven, and revenue-driven MORE
For a long time, Jake Shoff, co-founder of the Phoenix Recovery & Counseling Centers, seemed likely to become a construction mogul. The addiction and suicide of his troubled business partner took him on a very different path MORE
PHOENIX (AP) — An American Airlines plane diverted to Phoenix after a bird strike cracked a cockpit window during takeoff from Las Vegas on a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina MORE
The Phoenix-based company is expected to bring 100 jobs including 80 which will be created in Austin, according to a news release. ClearDATA, a healthcare cloud services company, announced Wednesday to move their headquarters from Arizona to Austin. The company is working with Cushman & Wakefield to find its new headquarters in Austin. “As a […] The post Healthcare Cloud Provider ClearData Moves to Austin With 100 Jobs appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin MORE
These included deep, relatively democratized capital markets, venture capitalists, "angels", and merchant and investment banks and. more than 100 years that the continental United States found itself attacked on its own territory MORE
The Phoenix Project : a novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford is a logical intellectual successor and regularly quotes Eli Goldratt’s seminal work The Goal and its good but less known sequel It’s Not Luck. MORE
But on the flip side there is the Phoenix Effect. On the other hand, we want to see Phoenixes soar. In the Phoenix Effect, customers know you have the ability to rise, but are currently struggling (in some fashion), so they root for you and support you. MORE
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. MORE
Everyone likes to talk about companies destroyed by technology’s march – Blockbuster, Borders etc. Personally I find inspiring companies which use technology to survive near death experiences – and no, not just Apple. On the New Florence blog, I have MORE
PHOENIX — An American Airlines plane diverted to Phoenix after a bird strike cracked a cockpit window during takeoff from Las Vegas on a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina MORE
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AUGUST 6, 2015
The Phoenix Project : a novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford is a logical intellectual successor and regularly quotes Eli Goldratt’s seminal work The Goal and its good but less known sequel It’s Not Luck.
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JULY 11, 2017
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.
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APRIL 15, 2016
Female entrepreneurs need to forget about creating unicorns. Women CEOs should aspire to new heights of leadership and success, on their own scale
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AUGUST 24, 2016
Here's how leaders of some of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. say the tech boom is affecting them
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JANUARY 5, 2016
Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver doesn't admire millennial culture one bit. He says technology may be to blame
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Phoenix-based developer Don Cardon shares the three life principles that have helped him complete high dollar projects like airports and skyscrapers.
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OCTOBER 7, 2013
Everyone likes to talk about companies destroyed by technology’s march – Blockbuster, Borders etc. Personally I find inspiring companies which use technology to survive near death experiences – and no, not just Apple. On the New Florence blog, I have
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But on the flip side there is the Phoenix Effect. In the Phoenix Effect, customers know you have the ability to rise, but are currently below them, so they root for you and support you. If you are touting your business is #1 in your industry, you are not using the Phoenix Effect.
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My brother is the smart one in the family. Unlike me, who only flirted with the idea of going to law school, he did the time and got the degree. Unlike most law grads he didn’t go to a firm or join the in house legal team at a big company, he joined a startup servicing the legal market. The company he joined, Serengeti Law , had an interesting history.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
PHOENIX — Authorities trying to rescue a family begging for help after their 26-year-old son opened fire in their Phoenix home arrived to a chaotic crime scene they could not prepare for
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APRIL 21, 2016
PHOENIX (AP) — An American Airlines plane diverted to Phoenix after a bird strike cracked a cockpit window during takeoff from Las Vegas on a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina
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FEBRUARY 5, 2017
Austin-based ConfirmX has launched its Urgent Care Check-In Service in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix, Arizona. The company, founded by Dr. Sherard Houston, an emergency room physician, makes online search and check-in for emergency rooms and urgent care facilities easier for patients. And the company drives more business to the healthcare facilities. Dr. […] The post ConfirmX Launches Urgent Care Check-In Service appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin San Antonio
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Phoenix Bats evolved from a niche vintage bat business into a maker of bats coveted by professional ballplayers
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AP) — Erik Jones won the Camping World Truck race at Phoenix International Raceway for the second year when a power outage Friday night forced NASCAR officials to end the event with 2 AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP)
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PHOENIX — An American Airlines plane diverted to Phoenix after a bird strike cracked a cockpit window during takeoff from Las Vegas on a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina
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ELON, N.C. (AP) AP) — Dmitri Thompson scored 22 points and Elon's bench almost matched Delaware's total in an 81-59 Colonial Athletic Association victory in Saturday night's regular season finale
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Successful startup ecosystems that I have lived or worked in like Boulder/Denver/Fort Collins and Phoenix, have been built around Brad Feld's "give first" concept popularized in his book Startup Communities.
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The Phoenix-based company is expected to bring 100 jobs including 80 which will be created in Austin, according to a news release. ClearDATA, a healthcare cloud services company, announced Wednesday to move their headquarters from Arizona to Austin. The company is working with Cushman & Wakefield to find its new headquarters in Austin. “As a […] The post Healthcare Cloud Provider ClearData Moves to Austin With 100 Jobs appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin
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For a long time, Jake Shoff, co-founder of the Phoenix Recovery & Counseling Centers, seemed likely to become a construction mogul. The addiction and suicide of his troubled business partner took him on a very different path
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The company has six employees and offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Tampa, Florida, according to its LinkedIn […] The post Austin-based Revionics Buys Marketyze appeared first on SiliconHills. Revionics, which makes price optimization software for retailers, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Marketyze, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Onn Manelson and Nave Ronen founded Marketyze in 2011.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2014
AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) AP) — Kevin Harvick dominated a race he had to win to advance to the final round of NASCAR''s playoffs, while Jeff Gordon was knocked out when Ryan Newman completed a last-lap pass
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MAY 29, 2015
More than 1 million items will be eligible for same-day delivery in 14 metro areas including New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Atlanta
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These included deep, relatively democratized capital markets, venture capitalists, "angels", and merchant and investment banks and. more than 100 years that the continental United States found itself attacked on its own territory
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JANUARY 28, 2016
The nation's largest drug store chain told the blood-testing startup on Thursday to only send tests to a certified lab in Phoenix that Theranos runs, or to an accredited third-party lab
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APRIL 7, 2016
RetailMeNot, a platform for deals and coupons, Thursday announced that it has acquired Phoenix-based GiftCard Zen, a secondary marketplace for gift cards. The Austin-based company acquired GiftCard Zen for $22 million in cash and up to $11 million more if it meets specific targets and continues to employ a key employee after the deal closes. […] The post RetailMeNot Buys GiftCard Zen for $33 Million appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin
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MAY 16, 2015
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.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 30, 2015
Burlington, and Phoenix.). Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007.
SiliconHills
MARCH 5, 2017
Dropoff has expanded its same day delivery for business service to Denver, Colorado and Phoenix, Arizona. The Austin-based startup expanded to other markets in Texas and to Florida and California last year. With the addition of these new markets, Dropoff’s same day delivery service now reaches more than 55 million people across the U.S. There […] The post Austin-based Dropoff Expands to Colorado and Arizona appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin
Feld Thoughts
JULY 8, 2013
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 ). This is why Kevin Behr, George Spafford, and I wrote 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.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Observe how Donald Trump used these tactics in a speech he gave in Phoenix before the election: First, he effusively thanked the believers: Wow. That’s a lot of people, Phoenix, that’s a lot of people. Thank you, Phoenix.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
For example, I live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, home of Arizona State University. An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
JANUARY 8, 2016
PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns signed guard Lorenzo Brown to a 10-day contract Friday
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Startup weeks and weekends may be a relatively new concept, but they exist all over the country; growing entrepreneurial communities in cities like Phoenix, Washington, D.C., I’m partnering with Chase Ink and attending Denver Startup Week on their behalf.
Escape From Cubicle Nation
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The first Lift Off Retreat took place in Phoenix, Arizona in February, 2010. And so Charlie and I kept going — Lift Off 2 took place in Portland, Oregon in August, 2010, and Lift Off 3 in Phoenix, Arizona in February, 2011. Lift Off 3 in Phoenix, Arizona And we are doing it again!
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