Philly.com: She’s using healthy food in a convenient way to change people’s lives

Lucinda Duncalfe (C’85/WG’91) shares her “chocolate-peanut butter moment” when she realized that the excess capacity of restaurants could be used to make it easier for people to eat healthy foods. MORE

TechCrunch: Hoping To Ride The Crowdfunding Wave, Celery Lets Sellers Accept Pre-Orders, Charge When Products Ready To Ship

Y Combinator-backed Celery, founded by Brian Nguyen & Chris Tsai (both WG’13), helps companies develop strong customer relationships from the start, by improving the “pre-commerce” experience. MORE

Region’s Business: Penn Inspires Creative Thinking Through Business Competitions

Region’s Business – Philadelphia highlights Wharton Entrepreneurship programs for “inspiring creative thinking”. MORE

Wireless Pill Bottle Wins Healthcare Innovation World Cup

AdhereTech [founded by Josh Stein WG'12] receives $50,000 grand prize in global diabetes innovation challenge funded by Boehringer Ingelheim. MORE

Penn Gazette: Pimp My Robot

In “Pimp My Robot”, Venture Initiation Program member Dick Zhang (ENG’15) talks about winning Penn’s Y-Prize for his plan to commercialize flying robot technology from GRASP Lab – UPenn (with co-founders Kelsey Duncombe-Smith EE’15 & Andy Wu GRW’16). MORE

Your Story: “eCommerce Is Only For Long Term Players,” Wharton Professor, Kartik Hosanagar

Professor Kartik Hosanagar gives his thoughts on ecommerce in India. MORE

Forbes: New Generation of Consumer-Friendly Jewelry Websites

Stone & Strand (Nadine McCarthy Kahane WG’12) and Adornia Fine Jewelry (Becca Aronson C’05/WG’13 & Moran Amir WG’13) are jewelry websites “working to bridge the gap among e-commerce, social media and bricks-and-mortar retail.” MORE

The Next Web: Highland Capital names the 9 student companies participating in its 2013 Summer@Highland program

“Highland Capital Partners has announced the names of the 9 student companies participating in its sixth annual Summer@Highland program.” List includes Skylbridge, founded by Brett Lewis (WG’13) & Raj Jeyakumar (WG’13). MORE

Skylbridge also featured in PandoDaily: Summer@Highland is like success camp for student entrepreneurs.

Fast Company – 100 Most Creative People in Business

Congratulations to Michelle Peluso (W’93), CEO of Gilt Group – FULL LIST HERE

NY Times You’re the Boss blog: One Social Media Start-Up Rises From the Ashes of Another

“One of the hardest things for an entrepreneur to do is to admit defeat. But in the case of [Curalate founders] Apu Gupta (WG’05) and Nick Shiftan, failure was likely the best thing that could have happened to them.” MORE

Penn Gazette: On a Roll

How the Penn alumnus (Samuel Reeves W’05) behind Humanistic Robotics, Inc. is saving the world one landmine at a time—and making money doing it. MORE

Extensive coverage of LiveSafe (with Executive Chairman Jeff Grass’99) in wake of 6th anniversary of Virgina Tech shooting

“LiveSafe provides the right tools and information for individuals and safety officials to collaborate and build safer communities.”

LiveSafe has been featured in Huffington Post Live, CNN Money, Los Angeles Times, Mashable and on NBC 4 – Washington DC.

Coverage of 2013 Wharton Business Plan Competition Perlman Grand Prize winner Zenkars

Zenkars, founded by Jim Chabas (WG’13) and Venkat Jonnala (WG’13), is an online retailer of used cars. For the consumer, Zenkars sells the best-priced used cars online with a peaceful buying experience.  The company removes middlemen and gets cars directly from commercial sellers – bypassing auto auctions, wholesalers and dealers. For the corporate seller, Zenkars offers the first direct to consumer remarketing channel.

Zenkars is the winner of the 2013 Wharton Business Plan Competition Perlman Grand Prize. The WBPC Venture Finals event and Zenkars’ win has been featured in India West, the New York Times You’re the Boss blog, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Times of India, Knowledge@Wharton, Penn News, Silicon India, Technically Philly and ClearAdmit.

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: MBAs Forgo Summer Internships for Startup Work

The Wharton School supports students choosing to intern at start-ups and build their own businesses over the summer. MORE

CNBC & Vogue Magazine cover opening of Warby Parker flagship retail store

CNBC: Wharton alum founded Warby Parker opens first flagship store in New York City. MORE

Vogue Magazine covers the flagship store’s opening celebration – PHOTOS HERE

EWEEK: Philadelphia Telehealth Service 1DocWay Aids Psychiatric Patients

“1DocWay’s [founded by Samir Malik C'08/W'08/GEN'13/WG'13] telehealth service focuses on telepsychiatry and has given a boost to health care IT in the Philadelphia area.” MORE

WSJ The Accelerators: Neil Blumenthal: Three Rules for Pricing

“Pricing is the hidden challenge of entrepreneurship. It’s a topic that no one talks about, even though (or perhaps because) it involves difficult decisions that hugely impact the success of your business.” MORE

Fast Company: Where Others See Imperfection, Successful Businesses See Opportunity

“The founders of FITiST [Neda Talebian Funk WG'06 and Caroline Limpert WG'07] unpack how they turn imperfection into opportunity–whether we’re talking about bodies, business plans, or unexpected setbacks.” MORE

Pando Daily: Dorm Room Fund heads to San Francisco, Philly team backs Whamix in second deal

First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund launches on the West Coast and Philly team invests in it’s second company – Whamix, founded by Ashish Parikh WG’13. MORE

Digital Journal: The University of Pennsylvania Health System and RightCare Solutions, Inc. Announce Expanded Partnership to Reduce Readmissions

“The University of Pennsylvania Health System and RightCare Solutions, Inc., an evidence-based technology organization specializing in hospital care transitions and readmission management, today announced an expanded partnership with the goal of improving care coordination and reducing readmissions.” MORE

Philadelphia Inquirer: New firm works to reduce hospital readmissions of elderly patients

Coverage of the 2012 Wharton Business Plan Competition winner RightCare Solutions, founded by Mrinal Bhasker, WG’12 (WEMBA-East) ; Kathryn H. Bowles, Penn professor; Eric Heil, ENG’05/WG’12 (WEMBA-East) ; and Matt Tanzer, W’02/WG’12 (WEMBA-East). MORE

Gigaom: Penn students build Firefly to make co-browsing drop-dead easy

“Patrick Leahy [W'13], co-founder of startup Firefly, turned down a prestigious Wall Street investment banking internship to build software that takes the messy plug-ins and downloads out of web-based customer support services.” MORE

Philadelphia Business Journal: Doing it in the dorms

Ashwin Muthia W’15 and Alexander Izydorczyk W’15 cite the creation of  The Dorm Room Fund as a great incentive to start their own business while still in school. MORE

TechCrunch: ElectNext Raises $1.3M To Provide Contextual Political Data To News Sites

Congrats to Wharton alumnae Keya Dannenbaum and the ElectNext team! MORE

New York Times: An Eyewear Company’s Simple Sell

“The start-up Warby Parker is one of a number of new innovators that has decided to design, manufacture and sell its inexpensive products directly to its Web-savvy customers.” WATCH HERE