This weekend the Phoenix Startup Weekend got underway, and at least for me it has been somewhat of a whirlwind. First, let me say what a GREAT JOB Gregg Drennan, Justin Crossman, Derek Neighbors, Sean Tierney, Steven Shaffer, Brian Shaler, the folks from Gangplank, and all of the others have done with...

Today Google launched their Second Life clone, called Lively. Honestly, I would question why they spent their time and resources on something like this. It is very un-Google-like, in that they are chasing other startups with such clones. Additionally, why do we need this, hasn’t Second Life’s 15...

Yesterday after I left work and saw the smoke plumes of the fire just west of Phoenix soon after an early season thunderstorm blew past the city. A lightning strike in the desert ignited a brush fire that is continuing to burn, now up to 2,400 acres. This afternoon the smoke cloud blew over the city,...

I have been searching for the last few days for the definition of what a Startup Company is, or what makes one? The best one I found thus far uses a quote from Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart regarding pornography to define it, “It is hard to define, but I know it when I see it.” In...

Lastnight, while watching Download: The True Story of the Internet (once again, a great Television Series) they aired a commercial for LifeLock. I am sure you know who LifeLock is, the Tempe, AZ based company that sells credit monitoring services (or services that you can do all on your own for free)...