Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference Wrap-up

The AZ Entrepreneurship Conference was designed to help build the entrepreneurial community in Arizona. It is a way for entrepreneurs and investors to meet each other, connect with resources, and gather information. Some of us nerds attened the event and were very impressed with the people and energy, and that's a hard thing to admit for an anti-social computer nerd.

The format was no different than any other conference, but the energy and optimism floating through the air were. The conference was a refreshing change of pace for this nerd, and for the city of Phoenix as a whole. Despite all the economic doom and gloom headlines floating around these days, it was clear that everyone understood that there was no way to jump start the economy without the people that gathered at this conference and we all accepted that responsibility with open arms.

#AZEC featured several awesome speakers who crushed it in every single way. The first stand-out presentation was by Bill Reichert from Garage Technology Ventures. Bill talked about the 10 rules for entrepreneurs and investors, and I felt compelled to write them down. 1) The point is to Create Value, 2) establish a brilliant team to work with, 3) create a Mantra instead of a mission statement, 4) Get Going; get going as soon as possible, 5) Bootstrap it, 6) have a Global Strategy from day one, 7) be a Fast Adapter, not a first mover, 8) Everyone Sells, 9) Change Takes Time, progress is slower than you think, 10) People Trump Technology. Bill was an amazing source of information, and helped to get everyone pumped early on.

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PodCamp AZ 2008 - Nov. 1-2, 2008

Tomorrow, we are attending PodCampAZ. PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style community, an ad-hoc gathering with discussions, demos and interaction from participants for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in New Media. That's a mouthful, but if you break it down, it equates to a bunch of nerds getting together to collaborate on ideas. That sounds like an awesome weekend. So, we signed up.

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startup weekend phoenix - from a nerd's perspective

Finally, something cool for us nerds came to Phoenix. On October 17-19, 2008, Startup Weekend came to town. For those of you who don't know, Startup Weekend is an intense event bringing like-minded tech professionals together to create companies, projects and communities. It blends developers and entrepreneurs together. Roughly 100 people gathered at Gangplank in Chandler to pitch ideas, form teams and get down to business developing products. Oh ya, this is done in 54 hours.

About 30 or so ideas were pitched Friday night. If the idea was chosen (received enough votes from the group), these products would be developed into actual products over the weekend. Ideas ranged from healthcare applications, web apps for kids to find science projects, and apps to match human personalities to dogs.

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welcome to the world of brice cheddarn

the importance of a strong and effective online presence should never be underestimated, and nerds understand this fact better than anyone.  nerds understand the web.   they understand it, embrace it, and passionately pursue to further the virtual web any chance they get. and can do the same for the web presence of any person, company or idea. 

at brice cheddarn, we take pride in giving individuals and businesses the chance to look their best on the web.  our team is dedicated to providing quality service and delivering quality results.  the portfolio of webwork compiled over the years is impressive.   whether it be through our highly-regarded web consulting services, or through our award-winning web development, or our optimization, we have provided our clients the satisfaction they need. 

while the nerds at brice cheddarn code in anything from PHP/MySQL to old school ASP to AJAX/DHTML/CSS, we are pioneers in the world of coldfusion web development.  yes, that's right, i said coldfusion.  let it be known to all you PHPers and .NETers, there are still some of us CFers left in the webosphere and we are here to stay.  ill take my coldfusion over that amsterdam code any day of the week.