Phoenix Not Copying Silicon Valley is the Winning Lesson
Monday, 13 April 2026
Ninety percent of startups fail, and the standard response from the startup industry encouragement because we “learn from failure.” The work I do in legislative affairs and ecosystem development is oriented precisely to improving that number, and a recent trip to Phoenix reminded me that the cities doing interesting things are not the ones trying
- Published in Regional Development
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Work, Live, and Play in a Futuristic Phoenix
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
The result of a collaboration between Arizona State University’s (my alma mater by the way) Center for Nanotechnology in Society and The Design School at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Phoenix, AZ is exploring how life in the Valley may look, decades from now. Darren Petricci, achitect and professor in the Design
- Published in Industry, Insights / Research, Startups


