I met 7foot 2in (kidding.. he's only 6'10 or somthin)  Sean Tierney 3-4 years ago at a local meetup.  Over the years he has impressed me with his big ideas, networking ability, real life guitar skillz, and all around awesome.  Besides that fluff, he has managed to take his Tempe based virtualization startup, jumpbox.com, through two angel/seed investment rounds and ...

Google seems to be having trouble making their Phoenix operations work.  Google made the decision to put their campus on the Arizona State University campus nearly two and half years ago.  They made a play to employ professors and control all recruiting out of the engineering department of the university.  Clearly, Google was in it for Google, not the university ...

The guys over at Tempe based jumpbox.com announced today an exclusive distribution deal with blogging company Six Apart. Six Apart, the world's leading blogging software and services company, and JumpBox, a developer of virtual appliances that simplify server software deployment, today announced the availability of Virtual Movable Type. With Virtual Movable Type, new customers can get a quicker start using a ...

Francine Hardaway remains on the lips and holiday card lists of many tech company leaders in the Phoenix area. But who is Francine Hardaway and why should you care? For many business owners, Francine is a sounding board, a connector, a promoter, and an experienced entrepreneur. And in some ways Francine has affected the lives of every individual living in ...

Double the space, double the fun! Lots of great projects happening down @gangplank, so many that they need to move into a bigger building! Exciting times for startups in Phoenix. P.S. If you haven't been coming to hacknight at gangplank, you've been missing out!

DateDesigner, one of the first companies to come out of the Gangplank incubator, is looking for people to test out it's new web app. DateDesigner is a way to create (from scratch) and/or browse through pre-designed dates to take the hassle and repitition out of dating. Apparently it's not that easy to put together the right date, so if you would ...

(Greater/Metro) Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the nation.. and it's effin hot.  We are going to talk about cool LOCAL companies and people doing cool things.. mostly in the web and tech space. If you follow us on twitter, a nifty wordpress plugin will twit the title and link of all new hoopla posts for your consumption. We have a ...