A strategic investment strategy backed by a comprehensive financial plan can help provide comfort in a volatile market. Below, we explore how asset allocation should be customized to an individual’s goals and risk appetite. Establishing Goals One of the most important steps to building asset allocation is to establish goals, along with a timeline, with one’s financial team. … [More]
Determining Strategic Asset Allocation
Establishing goals and risk tolerance within a given time frame
Arizona’s Sports and Event Betting Law
What businesses need to know
In September 2021, sports and event betting became legal in Arizona. Between September 2021 and November 2022, more than $7 billion has been wagered in Arizona, generating more than $30 million in revenue for Arizona’s general fund. Sports Betting Arizona’s 2021 statute authorizes and regulates sports betting, online gaming and betting, and event wagering conducted by … [More]
Do Donors Really Care about 100% Board Participation in Giving?
You bet they do!
Many prospective donors, when determining if, how much or when to make a major contribution to a nonprofit organization, want to know what the governing board has done with their personal giving. With or without a formal board-giving plan in place, 100% participation from the board is a testament to members’ commitment to the organization. Giving by board members demonstrates … [More]
Ahmad Alatrash Has the Mesquite Touch
Expanding Mesquite Fresh Street Mex to a broader brand
Ahmad Alatrash’s entrepreneurial journey with his most trusted business partner, his brother Nas, began when he was 18 years old. Nas, who is five years older, was familiar with Old Town Scottsdale and its potential for an investment opportunity. He recognized a need for the area: quality food venues that were open late for partiers, students, shift workers and first … [More]
The Rise of Chatbots in Contact Centers
AI chatbots are streamlining the customer service experience and helping businesses thrive
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 are … [More]
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 … [More]
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 by using the same … [More]
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 easy for customers to browse predesigned units with transparent … [More]
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 … [More]
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 Landsea Homes’ … [More]
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 of … [More]
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 … [More]
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 of healthcare. Outside of operating rooms, labs … [More]
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 solution. Honing … [More]
Technology Takes Construction Companies to the Next Level
Construction projects are underway throughout Greater Phoenix. According to local commercial brokerage firms, the Phoenix metro area has more than 46 million square feet of industrial construction and 870,000 square feet of office space in progress. While the construction business centers on the action at a job site, a significant part of the operation takes place at the … [More]
Tech Tools for Construction Project Managers
Successfully managing construction projects from planning to completion requires coordination between multiple parties and entities, tracking details and executing directions and follow-through to ensure the job gets done on time and on budget. For a construction project manager, tracking the moving parts and timelines is always a challenge. Fortunately, technology tools make … [More]
Arizona’s Workforce Remains Strong but Small Businesses Struggle to Hire
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Arizona’s workforce has been in a state of transition. Despite the turbulence, the state has managed to maintain steady job growth with positive indicators in various sectors, including healthcare and education. In fact, the unemployment rate in Arizona is at an all-time low of 3.9%, which is lower than the national average of 4.6%. … [More]
JDog’s Veteran-Centric Franchise Concept Targets Phoenix
JDog Brands, the parent franchisor to both JDog Junk Removal & Hauling and JDog Carpet Cleaning & Floor Care, was founded with a mission to provide a smoother transition from service to civilian life for military veterans. With nearly 300 active territories, the JDog Brands network is made of veterans and military families, with 88% of the brand’s owners being veterans … [More]
