The Rise of Chatbots in Contact Centers
AI has been a hot topic in recent months, as companies, pundits and others discuss artificial intelligence’s rapid evolution and its potential for improving businesses. Much of the conversation has been directed toward art and software development, but customer service remains a major area of opportunity for business owners. Today, 23% of customer service organizations […]
Protégé Steps Up Comfort in Fashion-Forward Heels
Protégé is founder Candace Chen’s contribution to women’s fashion — and, actually, health — through high heels designed for painless wearability and that enable women to present their best, confident selves. “Our patent-pending comfort tech enables unmatched stability, comfort and four times longer wear time,” says Chen. “I founded Protégé because I believe women shouldn’t […]
Ten Figures Advances Diversity in Venture Capital
Started up to help entrepreneurs with their own startups, Ten Figures is a culturally competent management consulting and venture capital firm supporting the development of BIPOC and/or women entrepreneurs. “I believe great entrepreneurs are a mix of both nature and nurture. Now, I am trying to prove that great entrepreneurs can also be great investors […]
Commercial Real Estate Trends: Adding detached living/working spaces to property
While life has largely returned to normal following the global pandemic, COVID has had a lasting impact on the way we work and live. We started our company, Minimal Living Concepts, in 2021 to address the need for private spaces for people working or schooling from home. We created a turnkey solution that makes it […]
Greenlight Communities Focuses Locally on Attainable Housing
The country’s first company to focus solely on building privately funded attainable rental housing, Arizona-based Greenlight Communities, entered this year with 14 projects in development across the Phoenix Metropolitan area and further expansion into the Tucson market. Since breaking ground on its first Cabana community in 2017, Greenlight has made attainable housing a reality for […]
Two Single-Family-Home Projects Break Ground in West Valley
Landsea Homes, a publicly traded residential homebuilder, recently closed on 65 homesites and began construction on a new neighborhood called Solvida in the Estrella master-planned community in Goodyear. The company also broke ground on 616 new homes at Citrus Park, its own master-planned community. All homes at Solvida in Estrella and Citrus Park will contain […]
Luxury Lease Villas for Litchfield Park and Goodyear
Family Development, one of the country’s premier homebuilders with a multitude of projects throughout the Southwest, has begun construction on two new luxury lease communities in Arizona: Villas Litchfield Park, which will feature 153 units, and Villas Goodyear, which will feature 151 units. Both build-to-rent projects are expected to be completed in 2024. Photo courtesy […]
Build-To-Rent Project in Avondale
Trilogy Investment Company, a leading national provider of build-to-rent housing communities, has created a strategic joint venture partnership with Cimbra Partners LLC (through its subsidiary Cimbra Investors Encanto, LLC) and has closed on seven acres of land at the corner of Encanto Blvd. and N. Avondale Blvd. in Avondale. The 84-unit townhome community called Encanto Villas, the […]
Healthcare Needs Entrepreneurs to Save Itself
When thinking of modern healthcare technology, it’s natural to focus on the gleaming, state-of-the art machines and devices that allow clinicians to explore, heal and treat the body in ways that we never imagined even a few years ago. However, while that’s accurate for medical equipment, it’s not the case for much of the rest […]
HealthspanMD Reverses Risks of Chronic Conditions
The traditional medicate-and-operate approach dominating healthcare — and how our society perceives it — has contributed to skyrocketing chronic disease rates: Nearly 60% of Americans will be diagnosed with one or more in their lifetime, according to a 2022 American Hospital Association report. A shift in focus from retroactive to proactive care may be the […]