2026 Recap

Two Saturdays. A lot of honest conversation.

On September 12th and 26th, founders, owners and a few people still working up the nerve to start their venture, filled The Duce in Downtown Phoenix. Plenty more joined from home or the shop on the livestream. Some came with a business plan and some came with a notebook and a long list of questions. Both were exactly the right way to show up.

Over two days, 17 Arizona founders, operators, and experts took the stage and talked plainly about money, burnout, marketing, and what keeps customers coming back. Then the conversations moved into the Q&A, out to Vendor Village and kept going. That's the whole idea behind this series. Nobody builds a business alone and nobody should have to figure it out alone either.
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2026 By the Numbers

★  400+ attendees across two Saturdays
★  2 ways to join: in person at The Duce or via Zoom
★  17 speakers and panelists
★  4 sessions and 2 keynotes
★  27 Arizona businesses and partners in Vendor Village
★  $3,000 in microgrants to 6 Arizona entrepreneurs
★  5,000+ entrepreneurs have joined the series since 2021
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