Second Annual Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference

AZ ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONFERENCE REVEALS LINEUP OF SUCCESS STORIES FOR NOVEMBER 8 EVENT Software Pioneer, Serial Entrepreneur Pat Sullivan to Lead Power-Packed Conference Agenda Phoenix, AZ – (August 14, 2007) – Businesses and entrepreneurs looking for funding, talent,...

Our Big Fundraising Event is November 8, 2007

Once a year we have a major fundraiser for OTEF. Not a ball, not an auction. Instead, we have a day in which we help entrepreneurs who can afford to pay a small fee for the information, and raise money for those who can’t. Our registration site is live, so...

Number Crunching Time

We are in week 8 of our program with the SEEDs house. Yesterday we could see the difference SEEDs especially, and to a small extent our program, has made with the women who live there. They are actually beginning to dress and look like the entrepreneurs they are...

SEEDs graduation day

In this photo, Ed and Phillip, two OTEF facilitators, talk to the SEEDs women about their business idea. If the response of the participants in a program are an indicator of the program’s success, our first program (at the SEEDs) house was an unbelievable...

Creating a Social Venture

Last Sunday we came closer to helping the SEEDs women realize their entrepreneurial dreams. We are closing in on one over-arching business that will contain all the others and help make SEEDs self-sufficient. Tasks have been assigned in the writing of a business plan...

Why we are doing this…

“Well, I’ve read the blog. Does that make me a blogger? I was going to respond on the page about exactly how incredible you, Phil and Ed are! I’m not sure if you really have any idea how these women are really feeling and what you are all doing for...

Progress at the SEEDS House

Yesterday at the SEEDS House, the entire FastTrac facilitation team (Ed, Phil, and Francine) helped the women in the house, which is a safe house for recovering victims of domestic violence, articulate their business concepts. These women are wonderful, but they are...

Our Pilot Program Has Begun

Ed and I kicked off the Pilot Program at the Phoenix SEEDS house yesterday afternoon. There are a dozen women in the program, and the Executive Director, Mona Lou Callery, also has good business ideas. We are going to go in two directions: 1) establishing a business...

OTEF Sponsors 2nd Event

“The Revolution in Marketing: Making an Impact Through Social Media” Social Media Global Authority Robert Scoble to Deliver Keynote Phoenix, AZ – (January 23, 2007) — The Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference organizers announced today that Robert Scoble, the...

Scoble to Keynote Revolution in Marketing Conference March 1

The Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference organizers (we are among them) announced today that Robert Scoble, the original Microsoft blogger and now the producer of “The Scoble Show” on Podtech.net will be the keynote speaker at the Arizona Entrepreneurship...