Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference on the horizon

This coming Wednesday, Nov 19th, some of us nerds will be attending Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference. The Third Annual Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference will be held on November 19th, 2008 from 7:30am - 7pm at The Buttes Resort (2000 Westcourt Way, Tempe, AZ).

It is a conference designed to help build the critical mass of the Arizona entrepreneurial community. It is an exciting way for entrepreneurs to meet each other, connect with resources, and gather information.

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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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