{"id":103,"date":"2008-08-03T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/03\/club-e-network-planning-an-az-business-incubator\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T09:43:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:43:08","slug":"club-e-network-planning-an-az-business-incubator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/club-e-network-planning-an-az-business-incubator\/","title":{"rendered":"Club E Network planning an AZ business incubator."},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news for AZ entrepreneurs. I’m of the opinion that there is far more talent in AZ and Phoenix in particular than we get credit for. Being a 12 year Silicon Valley veteran I’ve seen the talent in both locations, and while there is little doubt that the talent in SV is far more start-up inclined I think that is – in large part – due to the availability of resources – capital in particular. The result is that in SV everyone thinks they can form a startup… in AZ very few will even give it a shot.<\/em><\/p>\n

For those of us in AZ bootstrapping a start up is the only practical option – any option for early capital usually comes with onerous strings attached – such as the acquisition of a large share of ownership by the VC\/Angel or the proviso that the company re-locate to (you guessed it) Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

This causes two things we can not have:<\/p>\n

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  1. Potential entrepreneurs leave AZ for SV because “that is where you have to be to start a tech company”.<\/li>\n
  2. Once an entrepreneur has an idea the act of seeking the initial capital to make the idea reality will often lead them out of AZ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have been lucky enough to have the means to provide my own initial capital investments in cosinity<\/a> (bootstrapping the initial phase), but I too will soon be beginning a search for capital in earnest… I sincerely hope it does not cause me to leave AZ with my startup.<\/p>\n

    More resources like the one below will hopefully begin to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n

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    The Club E Network<\/a><\/strong>, the entrepreneurs organization founded by Michael Gerber and Peter Burns, is planning to open a business incubator that would provide small-business owners with work space, office equipment, business services and other resources.<\/font><\/p>\n

    The Entrepreneur Factory<\/strong>, or eFactory, would also serve as Club E’s headquarters. The organization is currently scoping out potential locations, according to a post on Club E’s site<\/a><\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

    Club E has expanded significantly since its founding in early 2007. The organization has multiple chapters in the Valley and in Austin, Denver and Washington, D.C.<\/font><\/p>\n

    The chapters meet monthly and are open to students and experienced business owners.<\/font><\/p>\n

    [From Entrepreneur network planning a business incubator<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Good news for AZ entrepreneurs. I’m of the opinion that there is far more talent in AZ and Phoenix in particular than we get credit for. Being a 12 year Silicon Valley veteran I’ve seen the talent in both locations, and while there is little doubt that the talent in SV is far more start-up… Continue reading Club E Network planning an AZ business incubator.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,30],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}