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Glendale Public Library offers free business startup workshops

November 8, 2016

The Glendale Public Library Main Branch, 5959 W. Brown St., and Office of Economic Development have partnered with ASU’s Entrepreneurship Outreach Network to offer Startup School workshops linking innovative people

New Source solar panels pull clean drinking water from the air

October 20, 2016

Founder and CEO Cody Friesen is also an associate professor at Arizona State University’s School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. Zero Mass Water is the second startup to

Budding entrepreneurs get free help from local library

October 18, 2016

The free workshop at the Glendale Public Library is being hosted in conjunction with Arizona State University’s Entrepreneurship Outreach Network. Beck says “Startup School” participants will have a networking opportunity

Succeeding outside of Silicon Valley: How the rest will rise

October 16, 2016

[ASU] President [Michael] Crow is looking for entrepreneurs who will create an impact on the next generation of the American economy, and he’s not alone. In Phoenix, and other Rise

Rise of the Rest contest brings venture capital to Phoenix

October 16, 2016

Scottsdale-based medical-device startup NeoLight LLC, founded by ASU graduates in 2014, won for Skylife, a lightweight, portable device the company hopes will make treatment for infant jaundice affordable and accessible around the

New co-working space opening at SkySong

October 16, 2016

The space is located on the ground floor in SkySong 1, and is named 1951@SkySong for the year Scottsdale was incorporated. The space is a next step in ASU’s efforts to support

This Scottsdale startup received a $100K investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case

October 16, 2016

Former Arizona State University startup NeoLight LLC bet out seven other startups to win the Rise of the Rest startup pitch competition Oct. 7, receiving a $100,000 investment from AOL

Is entrepreneurialism at odds with deep thinking?

October 16, 2016

What’s the point of college? At Arizona State University, it’s often about “the entrepreneurial mindset,” as Sethuraman Panchanathan put it, who helps lead the university’s research and economic development efforts.

Got a food business idea? This entrepreneurship program can help

September 16, 2016

It’s hard to get a small business off the ground, but a new program from Arizona State University can help. Called Prepped, the 10-week program targets would-be food business owners