How Arizona (yes, Arizona) is becoming a hotbed for tech startups | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Mo Marshall
Summary
Sure, Motorola once employed tens of thousands of people in the Phoenix area and Intel still has major operations in Chandler, but from a startup perspective, Arizona has never been the most friendly place. The massive school put an emphasis on tech transfer that it never had in the past, and it also has built up its biosciences programs to help spur local R&D efforts. ASU’s SkySong Innovation Center in Scottsdale opened in 2008 and has since grown to serve as a top incubator for local tech startups. It can be felt across the local economy as more leaders realize the value of the startup community as a job-creating force that’s a heck of a lot more dependable than population growth and building more homes. Arizona isn’t going to suddenly usurp California or Texas any time soon when it comes to things like venture funding, but the sleeping giant out in the Southwest is starting to make some noise.
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