AZAdvances in the spotlight on ABC15

AZAdvances in the spotlight on ABC15

AZAdvances is the next BIG thing. AZAdvances founder, Joan Koerber-Walker, chats with Susan Casper on ABC15’s Sonoran Living and shares why AZAdvances is the next big thing that will advance health innovation in Arizona.  AZAdvances AZAdvances is an initiative created...
Ponte Cura Celebrates Science and Hope

Ponte Cura Celebrates Science and Hope

Arizona’s health innovators, philanthropists, and business leaders came together for an inspirational celebration under the stars supporting the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation AZAdvances initiative’s mission to advance health innovation. Celebrating...

2018 Programs in Review

Entrepreneurship skills are not, as Silicon Valley would have you believe, always glamorous. In fact they are almost the opposite. They are survival skills. And they are becoming more necessary every year as we face a future in which many jobs from radiologist and...

Summer 2017 Program

This summer, OTEF is working with SySTEM Schools to provide organizational support to its founder, Angelica Cruz, an entrepreneur who undertook the very difficult task of starting a STEM middle school for underserved students, mostly Hispanic, in the Phoenix inner...

This Year’s Summer Program

This summer, we once again partnered with the West Mesa Community Development Corporation to help low income people in downtown Mesa put themselves in business. As usual, we had wonderful cooperation from the participants, who ranged in interests from neighborhood...

Mesa Summer Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Programs

For the past two summers, OTEF has offered five-week programs in entrepreneurship skills to residents of West Mesa, Arizona, a neighborhood impacted by an aging population, changing demographics, and light rail construction. Francine Hardway Co-founder & Executive...

AZEC12 is October 30!

The work of OTEF is almost entirely funded by the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conferences. The keynote speaker this year is Robert Scoble of Rackspace, renowned tech evangelist, blogger, and champion of entrepreneurs. He will be joined at the conference by Bill Reichert,...

Join us at AZEC11 on November 16th

Last week in a board meeting, I listened as the chairman opened his remarks with the opening quote from Dickens’ classic novel A Tale of Two Cities:  “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”  There is no doubt that the last few years have been...

New FastTrac programs roll out in AZ this September

Our FastTrac Team has been busy this  summer and is rolling  new programs this September. Several new entrepreneurship programs are starting this month. Please spread the word to friends and associates who want to start a new business or advance their existing...

RoadMap to Launch a Rousing Success

This year, OTEF’s entrepreneurship training program was held in conjunction with the City of Chandler and Gangplank, a not-for-profit community collaboration space in downtown Chandler. Entrepreneurs with an idea gathered first at StartupWeekendChandler to...