Snapdeal founder Kunal Bahl (M&T’06) is “building India’s largest online deals and products destination” (1/29/2012) MORE
Archive for January, 2012
Hindustan Times: ‘E-commerce or e-bubble?’
January 31, 2012Her Campus: Stylitics – An online stylist tool every girl should know about
January 31, 2012“Stylitics is a first of its kind Internet site that acts as your own personal stylist. You know those smartphones that everyone carries around now? Stylitics is even smarter than your phone. Well, at least it will be soon.” (1/30/2012) MORE
Wharton Venture Initiation Program member interviewed on Tropo.com
January 30, 2012Check out Tropo’s Spotlight interview w/ Wharton Venture Initiation Program company PalmLing co-founder Ryan Frankel WG’12 (1/30/2012) MORE
Wall Street Journal: “Twitter Investor Spark Promotes Mo Koyfman To General Partner”
January 30, 2012Wharton alum Mo Koyfman (W’00), “a native of New Jersey, has led a few investments for the firm, including online marketplaces Skillshare and Work Market.” (1/27/12) MORE
D&M Magazine: “Stylitics: Virtual Wardrobe and Style Assistant”
January 30, 2012Winner of the 2011 Wharton Business Plan Competition Stylitics “revolutionizes the way people think about their own style.” (1/29/2012) MORE
Wharton Magazine: “Making Waves on Their Own Ship”
January 27, 2012Lots of familiar names in the Wharton Magazine’s inspiring article about alumni “pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams”! Great read featuring the founders of Warby Parker Eyewear, Stylitics, Kembrel, cater2.me, PayDivvy, Wantworthy, Sparkology, Open Air Publishing & Fair Observer. (1/27/2012) MORE
India Knowledge@Wharton: “Snapdeal’s Kunal Bahl on Creating a ‘Discovery Platform’ for Indian Consumers”
January 27, 2012“In less than two years, SnapDeal, a group discounting site in India, has grown to become one of the leading e-commerce sites in the country. According to co-founder Kunal Bahl (W’06/ENG’06), deals are only an entry point into the customer’s life. The vision, he says, is to build a brand that participates in consumers’ lives every day, across product and service categories.” (1/26/12) MORE
Flying Kite Media: “Why everyone loves CloudMine’s backend solution for mobile apps”
January 26, 2012“CloudMine’s goal is to take care of backend programming for mobile apps so you don’t have to. Their tagline is ‘The mobile developers’ backend-as-a-service-done-right company.'” (10/25/2011) MORE
Tech Crunch: “DreamIt-Backed CloudMine Lets App Developers Bypass The Backend Pain, Focus On Their Product”
January 26, 2012“CloudMine has developed a service that will allow developers to reduce the pain by providing a set of RESTful APIs that allow them to quickly create back-end solutions for their apps. Specifically, the startup is offering schema-free data structure storage, user account creation and management, and server-side business logic for computations that are too complex or data-intensive to run on a mobile device.” (10/15/2011) MORE
NY Times Dealbook: “Rejecting Wall Street, Graduates Turn Entrepreneurs Instead”
January 26, 2012[Davis] Smith [G’11/WG’11], who attends the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and [cousin Kimball] Thomas, of Harvard Business School, are part of a growing number of business school students rejecting traditional postgraduate paths like investment banking, hedge funds and consulting. (5/2/2011) MORE
PE Hub: “Aydin Senkut Recalls a Game of Pool with Aaron Levie Led Him to Milo.com”
January 26, 2012Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs Board Member Aydin Senkut (WG’96) believes that “Ninety percent of success is showing up.” (1/26/2012) MORE
Reuters: “How to feel good about scheduling doctor visits on the fly”
January 26, 2012Reuters: Wharton alum Cyrus Massoumi W’98 , ZocDoc founder, discusses how scheduling doctor appointments online can be beneficial for patients and providers. (1/25/2012) MORE
BlogDoEcommerce features Wharton alum founded start-up
January 25, 2012BlogDoEcommerce: olook (founded by Peter Ostroske WG’12) launches unprecedented platform for fashion ecommerce (article in Portuguese) (1/25/12) MORE
Huffington Post: “Tech, Tech, No Tech”
January 24, 2012Serial entrepreneur & Wharton lecturer, Patrick FitzGerald C’97, writes about why tech ventures are not the only route for committed entrepreneurs. (1/23/2012) MORE
INC Magazine: “May the Best Business Win”
January 24, 2012Inc. Magazine: “‘Contests like this bring benefits like set timelines and deliverables that focus you as a business owner to get something on paper, a prototype, and something out the door,’ says Megan Mitchell, senior associate director of Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.” (1/24/2012) MORE
Of a Kind: “Emerging Thing of the Week: Stylitics”
January 24, 20122011 Wharton Business Plan Competition winner Stylitics (co-founded by Rohan Deuskar WG’11 and Zach Davis) chosen as the “Emerging Thing of the Week” by Of a Kind (1/20/2012) MORE
ElectNext featured in multiple media outlets
January 24, 2012Wharton Venture Initiation Program company ElectNext (co-founded by Keya Dannenbaum WG’12 and Paul Jungwirth PhD’18) featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and on WHYY’s Newsworks.org for their involvement in the celebration of the 225th anniversary of the US Constitution.
The Daily Star Lebanon: “Lebanese team brings people closer with new app”
January 23, 2012Wharton Venture Initiation Program company and DreamIt Ventures alum OneAway, co-founded by Nadim Gharios (WG’12) and Anis Harb (WG’12), is profiled in Lebanon’s The Daily Star. (1/21/12) MORE
Daily Pennsylvanian: “Entrepreneur-In-Residence program offers one-on-one mentoring for students”
January 23, 2012Today’s issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian features WEP’s Entrepreneur in Residence program and includes quotes from alum Nat Turner W’08, Venture Initiation Program member Samir Malik WG’13 and Wharton senior Tyrone Thomas W’12. (1/23/2012) MORE
India Knowledge @ Wharton: ‘Amid Worries of a Slowdown, Charting India’s Future Growth Trajectory’
January 20, 2012Wharton alum Kunal Bahl (W’06/ENG’06), founder of SnapDeal, comments on the availability of funding for Indian entrepreneurs. (1/19/12) MORE
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