Archive for the ‘Angel Investing’ Category

ASU officials announced April 20 that Finao Capital will set up operations this fall at SkySong – ASU’s Scottsdale Innovation Center.

Finao Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage technology companies. The firm concentrates on first-round financing and assisting companies that are considered to have “hypergrowth” potential. SkySong is an integral part of Finao’s business plan to bring early stage ventures and venture capital to Arizona. Read the rest of this entry »

LAST DAY TO APPLY! FOR SELECTION AS A PRESENTING COMPANY

Presenter applications for the December 12-13 conference are due by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 7, 2007.

Invest Southwest, the successor to the Arizona Venture Capital Conference and the Arizona Angel Investment Conference, is searching for the Best of the Southwest: the region’s most promising early stage and emerging growth companies. Read the rest of this entry »

Partnership to Leverage AxisOS Proprietary Time-to-Market Development Software and Kaboodle Ventures Media Content Networks

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – Axis Open Source, a leading developer of Linux, PHP and MySql solutions and Kaboodle Ventures LLC a Web Technologies holding company announced today a partnership to develop, market and distribute a new series of Web 3.0 consumer driven media applications in the B2C, B2B and C2C market space.

“As what’s been deemed Web 2.0 applications like social networking, video, audio, podcasting, user-generated content, blogs and what have you continue to rapidly gain mass acceptance we’re excited about partnering with Axis Open Source to develop the next generation of web based applications…ones that actually generate revenue and create ease of use for both businesses and consumers,” stated Christopher Conlan, CEO of Kaboodle Ventures. Read the rest of this entry »

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal – 9:55 AM PDT Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Venture capitalists continued to favor the innovative activity of Web 2.0 companies, deploying substantial sums in the segment throughout 2006, according to the latest data released by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne. Read the rest of this entry »

1/9/07 and 1/10/07 – FastTrac Entrepreneurship Education

FastTrac Programs help entrepreneurs reach the next levels of their success.

A new round of courses begin next week – on Tuesday January 9th (in Tempe) and Wednesday January 10th (in Phoenix).

These are being underwritten by grants from the Cities of Tempe and Phoenix so they cost the entrepreneur just $150 (which covers the cost of the course materials). Read the rest of this entry »

Editors Note:  It being a slow news day, and myself pondering several venture strategies for The Blog Mill, I thought I would publish this article by Wil Schroter, of GoBigNetwork, and maybe a few more select “how to” articles for those of you seeking capital.   — Chris

If you’ve ever pitched your new business idea to a venture capital angel investor, only to be tortured with an endless list of reasons your idea will never work, my sympathies go out to you.  The rejection of being told your business idea sucks can be incredibly painful.

That said, I think you need to keep one thing in mind while you’re being told what a buffoon you are for presenting your idea – maybe this venture capital angel investor has no idea what they hell he’s talking about! Read the rest of this entry »

Andrew Johnson
The Arizona Republic

A startup private equity firm in Phoenix that is trying to spur investing in Arizona-based companies has formed a partnership with the Private Equity Center at Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.

Pacific Investment Partners Inc. is sponsoring Thunderbird’s center in Glendale as a way to elevate its profile and raise awareness about the importance of investing in local firms, said Aram Chavez, the firm’s managing director. Read the rest of this entry »

Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic

Even the most ardent boosters acknowledge that the public’s lucrative investment in the biosciences can sometimes be viewed as a leap of faith.

The state’s bio playbook calls for investing $1.4 billion over a decade to build a research-based economy hinging on things such as developing drugs, making medical devices and transferring discoveries from university labs to doctors’ offices and supermarket shelves. Read the rest of this entry »

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Hot Stix Golf, the world’s leader in custom golf fitting announced today the expansion of its R&D division with the addition of consumer testing. As the largest independent tester of golf equipment in the industry, Hot Stix Golf has long been recognized as the best in fitting golfers through science to the perfectly matched equipment for maximum performance results.

“We analyze swing characteristics for tens of thousands of golfers every year at Hot Stix Golf through our custom irons, woods, putter and ball Tour-fitting services. We have now expanded our R&D capabilities with an additional $3 million of capital investment funding so we can include consumer testing data to further advance the science Read the rest of this entry »

Jane Larson
The Arizona Republic

Buying houses, hiring a contractor to do some remodeling, and then selling the houses for a higher price seemed like a good business to Alan Farber.

Then he got burned by a contractor who overran the budget and took longer than expected to complete the job. And it gave Farber the idea for what could be an even bigger and better business with funding from outside investors. Read the rest of this entry »