AZ Tech Podcast Live Recording
Do you love the AZ Tech Podcast? Have you missed interacting with our tech community in person? AZ Tech Beat is proud to announce the first live podcast recording of AZ Tech Podcast. Host Hamid Shojaee will be chatting with some of our favorite friends of the podcast: Bob LaLoggia, Founder of AppointmentPlus, Mike Roberts, … [Read more](/content/2021/11/03/sign-up-now-az-tech-podcast-live-podcast-recording-on-nov-11/ "SIGN UP NOW: AZ Tech Podcast live podcast recording on Nov. 11"/index.html)
News Recap – Week Ending Oct. 22
This week, AirGarage, a startup founded in Tempe that’s designed to improve the public parking experience, announced a $12.5 million raise led by Andreesen Horowitz. MediaKits, a startup that provides “digital resumes” for influencers, raised $1 million. We also talk about the massive amount of investment capital in Arizona. We also discuss the metaverse, the … [Read more](/content/2021/10/22/az-tech-podcast-news-recap-week-ending-oct-22/ "AZ Tech Podcast: News RECAP – Week ending Oct. 22"/index.html)
Digital Air Strike Awards
Digital Air Strike, a Scottsdale-based startup designed to help car dealers improve marketing and customer engagement, has received awards in six different consumer technology categories as part of the 17th annual Dealers’ Choice Awards program from Bobit Media. This is a record number of awards for Digital Air Strike (DAS), and the company was one … [Read more](/content/2021/10/13/digital-air-strike-named-leader-in-six-different-consumer-technology-categories/ "Digital Air Strike named leader in six different consumer technology categories"/index.html)
Season 1 Bonus Episode
We’ve reached the end of Season 1 of the AZ Tech Podcast! In the bonus episode, Hamid talks to AZ Tech Podcast producer Adrienne about their favorite parts of Season 1 and what can be expected this summer before the podcast returns with Season 2 later this year. Watch now or listen on Apple Podcasts … [Read more](/content/2021/06/11/bonus-episode-hamid-adrienne-wrap-up-season-1/ "Bonus Episode: Hamid and Adrienne wrap up Season 1"/index.html)
Interview with Chris Ronzio
One day, Chris Ronzio was running a highly-profitable consulting business. The next, he launched Trainual, one of the fastest growing companies in Arizona that streamlines businesses’ training processes. Watching his mom start her own esthetician business and his dad work and travel often for his corporate job influenced Chris on his path to business. Living … [Read more](/content/2021/06/09/chris-ronzio-talks-trainual-shares-morning-routine-in-latest-az-tech-podcast/ "Chris Ronzio talks Trainual, shares morning routine in latest AZ Tech Podcast"/index.html)
JT Marino's Startup Journey
Tuft & Needle co-founder JT Marino could be the poster child of how to bootstrap your way to success. When he was first exploring ideas for the type of startup he wanted to build, he and his friend and co-founder Daehee Park made a very specific set of constraints that included never raising capital. The … [Read more](/content/2021/06/04/jt-marino-talks-tuft-needle-merger-hobbies-az-tech-podcast/ "JT Marino talks Tuft & Needle, the merger and his hobbies in latest AZ Tech Podcast"/index.html)
Dr. Grant McFadden's Research
Dr. Grant McFadden is trying to find out if a virus fatal only to rabbits might also destroy cancer cells. He became interested in the myxoma virus in grad school. The virus was first released in Australia in the 1950s to try to control a massive rabbit population. Since then, Grant has turned his … [Read more](/content/2021/06/02/grant-mcfadden-explains-cancer-treating-research-az-tech-podcast/ "Grant McFadden explains his cancer-treating research in latest AZ Tech Podcast"/index.html)
Focusing Your Business with Greg Head
There’s one thing that Greg Head is confident about: he knows. The people, the startups, the places, the tips to succeed. He’s one of the biggest champions of Arizona’s tech scene. Even though he’s now based out of Dallas, he runs Gregslist in Phoenix, one of the best resources for entrepreneurs, investors, and founders in … [Read more](/content/2021/05/28/greg-head-how-to-focus-business-latest-az-tech-podcast/ "Greg Head tells you how to focus your business in the latest AZ Tech Podcast"/index.html)
Chris Cardinal Insights
Chris Cardinal has a lot to say, and he proved as much on our latest podcast episode. The co-founder of Synapse Studios and CarbonQA doesn’t ever want his employees sleeping on the floor of the office just to make deadlines and he doesn’t necessarily agree with how the leaders of some of the world’s biggest … [Read more](/content/2021/05/26/chris-cardinal-thoughts-building-company-latest-az-tech-podcast/ "Chris Cardinal shares his thoughts on building a company on the latest AZ Tech Podcast"/index.html)
Ibrahim Mesbah on E-Commerce
Ibrahim Mesbah wasn’t planning to build a multimillion dollar company. While he worked at PayPal, he developed a passion for finding e-commerce solutions. He was helping a friend's brother source auto parts a few years ago at a Honda dealership here in the Valley and he saw how complicated and inefficient the process was. From … [Read more](/content/2021/05/21/ibrahim-mesbah-amazon-car-parts/ "Ibrahim Mesbah says he’s hoping to build the Amazon of buying and selling car parts in latest AZ Tech Podcast episode"/index.html)