Today, the DreamIt Ventures accelerator is showcasing 15 startups at demo day in Philadelphia. DreamIt Ventures, ranked the #11 top startup accelerator in the US, provides startups with office space, mentorship, and up to $25,000 in funding. This is its fifth class in Philadelphia. “These are not pie-in-the-sky ideas or wireframes masquerading as businesses. These are real…
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Entrepreneurs in Philadelphia just got a financial boost – to the tune of $3.5 million – from a two-tiered investment and grant-making initiative called Startup PHL. With the goal of bringing more tech startups to the city, Mayor Michael Nutter announced Friday the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) and the City of Philadelphia have partnered…
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The startup accelerator DreamIt Ventures, which is now located in New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Austin, has announced its fall class in Philadelphia. DreamIt Ventures was recently ranked the #11 best US accelerator in the rankings we published last month. The class of 14 startups comes from New York (3), Philadelphia (3), Chicago (2), Washington, DC…
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“We have no idea where we’re going to be in three months; we’re jumping into the great unknown.” These words belong to the very excited Micha Weinblatt, founder and CEO at Betterific, whose DC-based team will soon be making the move to Philly to join the DreamIt Ventures class of 2012 (ranked the #11 startup accelerator…
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Q: Where’s the humanity in social media content? A: Peekseed In the ongoing stream of tweets, likes, shares, emoticons, commenting, and other social sharing methods, we’re still somewhat limited in our personal expressions online. Currently, our social web lives are shackled to sharing services that fail to capture true and genuine interests due to their…
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Today 14 new startups are being announced as part of DreamIt Ventures Demo Days Philadelphia. This invitation-only event showcases the year’s graduating ventures first with a presentation from each individual start-up, followed by an open gallery where attendees can interact with the companies directly. For DreamIt Ventures, one of the top 15 ranked accelerators in the U.S.,…
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Do you know where the presidential candidate you are supporting stands on immigration, healthcare, environmental policy, or other issues that are important to you? Many people vote alongside a political party without really knowing where candidates stand on specific issues. The problem is exacerbated at the state and local level where, according to ElectNext, “candidates are…
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Philadelphia-based startup Chimp Flix is doing a service to movie theater owners and moviegoers alike, helping movie theaters fill their empty seats and offering discounted tickets to consumers. On average, movie theaters only fill 25-30% of their seats per week. Come showtime, every empty seat represents lost potential revenue – until now. Chimp Flix allows…
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Way back in December 2010, we predicted that 2011 would be the year of mobile payment. Boy, were we right! We have already covered 6 different apps/platforms, and I am about to cover a 7th, Venmo, below, an app that has actually been around a while. Tech Cocktail’s co-founder Frank Gruber explained to me that…
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Do you love your business, but find yourself spending much too much time with back-end tasks such as scheduling instead of doing what you love? You aren’t alone. Business owners consistently search for ways to operate more efficiently, because quite frankly, back-end operations often aren’t the sexiest of responsibilities. Enter ReadySetWork, a Philadelphia-based startup that…
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For most students, Facebook is the perfect partner-in-crime if you want to procrastinate during finals week. But new Facebook application Hoot.Me is turning the social network into a collaborative study tool. Hoot.Me allows users to switch their Facebook experience into “study mode,” meaning that students can see what their friends are working on and join…
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“Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker I get asked from time to time what I believe makes someone an entrepreneur, and invariably I respond by saying that an entrepreneur is someone who sees a problem and says, “I can fix that.” Peoples’ definitions will vary, and…
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Recently I was working out of one of my favorite Philadelphia coffee shops when I had the pleasure of meeting a young woman who works for the Adventures vertical of LivingSocial. This venture, formerly Urban Escapes out of NYC, was acquired by Living Social late last year. This person, who I very much enjoyed meeting…
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Dreamit Ventures, the Philadelphia-based Startup Accelerator that we covered previously, is bringing their startup incubator to NYC. Dreamit Ventures was ranked number nine in our recent USA Startup Accelerator report. The 3-month long programs include mentoring, up to $25,000 in funding, legal, accounting and admin help as well as the opportunity to pitch to VCs…
Read MoreMindSnacks offers a game-driven, mobile platform to learn a language. Currently the platform is offered for the iPhone and is limited to Spanish, but their goal is to soon offer French, Italian and Mandarin – and continue expanding from there. The current Spanish learning app was built in ten weeks and is now available in…
Read MoreWhat happens when social entrepreneurs meet up with a national disaster? From the rubble can emerge a new opportunity such as CitizenGulf, an amazing cause which has been put together by socially conscious members of the social media, non-profit and entrepreneurial communities to aid the Gulf Coast. This April, we watched in devastation as the…
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