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5 1/2 Questions for Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark — Founder of Craigslist, Philanthropist
Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist, the web-based platform that has fundamentally changed classified advertising. Since its founding in 1995, craigslist has become one of the world’s 10 most-visited English language web platforms. Today there are craigslist websites virtually everywhere and serving every continent on earth (except Antarctica).

Virtual Accelerators — What you Need to Know
Virtual Accelerators are one of the most prominent startup trends of the past 5 years — booming in the post-pandemic Zoom era. Hundreds (even thousands) of organizations

5 1/2 Questions for Heidi Jannenga
Heidi Jannenga is the co-founder of Phoenix-based WebPT, the leading software provider for electronic medical records and practice management for rehabilitation therapists.
Dr. Jannenga served as chief operating officer until 2015, and then as the firm’s president until 2019, when it was acquired by Warburg Pincus. Dr. Jannenga also serves as secretary of the board of directors of the Arizona Community Foundation, as a trustee of the Arizona Science Center, as a board member of the Arizona chapter of Conscious Capitalism, and as a board member of the Arizona School for the Arts.

5 1/2 Questions for Michael Crow
Michael Crow
President, Arizona State University
Dr. Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the United States, and consequential societal impact.

LeaderSpeak – Badass or Just Bad?
Oh those powerful, commanding leaders. You know the type: Baritone-voiced, stone-faced scowling – often Don Draper look-a-likes who just strolled in from Central Casting. Good

It’s a Scam — and You’ll be Murdered! Product Breakthrough Hysteria
Entrepreneurs — how do you know you’re on to something big? It’s when the media, and the gurus look at your new product category, and proclaim “It’s