PHX Startup Week Blog
Gain insights from local startups and #yesphx community members
Want to empower your employees? The solution may be sixteen digits
When leaders take deliberate steps to show employees that they are trusted, “employees are more likely to be powerful, confident individuals.” However, most commentary on employee empowerment focuses on the ambiguous or intangible; Leaders are told to “encourage...
Why you don’t have to be a dorm room genius to be a great innovator
By: Kristen Plymale, Global Expansion Lead of the Venture Café Global Institute Ask most people to envision an innovator - more often than not, they will picture the classic image of a lone genius furiously coding away in a dark and messy dorm room. Whether it be...
Phoenix Founders: Why You Should Stay and Invest in Our Community
In Phoenix, we have a robust community of stakeholders who want to see our local startups flourish in their own backyards and pave the way for successive generations.
Thrive Together
What began as a feeling, empowered diversity, became the theme, Thrive Together- representing the vision of a connected, united PHX Valley, where all entrepreneurs, businesses, industries and people of all types can Thrive.
Fear of Modern IT Management
By Joe Flynn, Senior Manager, Technical Architecture at Insight A huge part of technology, especially how it affects business, is an exercise in fear. Remember when IT pros were reluctant to move basic Office 365 to the cloud? Or when it felt absurd to think about...
Empower your small business with streamlined software.
Whether you’re a one-person company selling unique products online or a 5,000+ employee SaaS company, every business is different. What all businesses have in common is the need to run as efficiently and productively as possible so that they can grow and meet business...
Quantifying Generosity- the 1% solution
Pledge 1% is a global movement, creating a new normal for companies to give. The simple, flexible and scalable model helps founders integrate giving back into their company cultures and values early by committing to give 1% of equity, time, product, and/or profit to any cause of their choosing.
Building an Inclusive Speaker Lineup
PHX Startup Week 2019 planning began with a very specific intention — build an event representative of the diversity of the PHX Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, inclusive of all people, industries, and stage of business. This charge was given to every single one of the...
Does Your Enterprise Need Blockchain?
By Naveen Sydney, CTO, hyperFIELD Inc Blockchain technology has gotten tremendous attention lately for its industry-disrupting capabilities. As a result, many enterprises are rushing to try and incorporate blockchain into their ecosystem, so they are not left behind....
There is something for everyone at PHX SUW 2019
I’ve spent the last six months working on programming for PHX SUW 2019 and am so excited to share this event with you! I could go on and on about all of the really cool sessions- but let me tell you a tiny bit about why I’m excited about Startup Week this...