“The arrival of Coursekit (a Wharton Venture Initiation Program alum) will soon turn isolated and limited learning into invigorating and unlimited learning.” (2/14/2012) MORE
Archive for February, 2012
Daily Trojan (University of Southern California newspaper): “Coursekit should replace Blackboard”
February 16, 2012The Hindu Business Line: Serial entrepreneur turns investor
February 16, 2012“After his four entrepreneurial ventures, Mr [Sashi] Reddi [GRW’94] believes that all new ventures should have an outside investor to instil discipline, financial and otherwise…Instead of investing his monies in new ventures of his own, he decides to make seed investments in start-ups and started SRI Capital.” (2/16/2012) MORE
Tech Crunch: LocalResponse Debuts Pro Version Of Social Advertising Platform For Marketers
February 15, 2012“What makes LocalResponse (co-founded by Nihal Mehta C’99/W’99) compelling is that it analyzes massive amounts of data in addition to check-ins from the Twitter firehose, photo sharing sites and more to find other forms of check-ins.” (2/15/2012) MORE
British GQ: “My life in business”
February 15, 2012Wharton alum Elon Musk (C’97/W’97), founder of SpaceX & Tesla Motors, talks to British GQ about “how to send a start-up stratospheric.” (2/15/2012) MORE
Droid Gamers: WanderPlayer- Play Your Web-based Games Using Your Smartphone as a Controller
February 10, 2012WanderPlayer (founded by Ayo Omojola W’04/WG’11) is a great app for “those looking to kickback and unwind from the comfort of the couch.” (2/10/12) MORE
Wall Street Journal: Facebook to Join Ranks of Dual-Class Listings
February 10, 2012WEP’s Academic Director Professor Raffi Amit comments in The Wall Street Journal on Facebook’s dual-class stock listing. (2/8/2012) MORE
ZD Net: Women in Tech
February 9, 2012Gayle Laakmann McDowell (ENG’05/GEN’05/WG’11) – founder and CEO of CareerCup.com and author of The Google Resume and Cracking the Coding Interview – excels beyond the stereotypes. (2/9/2012) MORE
TechCrunch: Shopzilla Founder Launches Cheers: The “Like Button” For The World Around You
February 9, 2012Founder Farhad Mohit (WG’96) says “that the app [Chee.rs] is meant to be the ‘Like button’ for the world around you, except that it has the potential to be more meaningful because it allows you to create, control, and give voice to each ‘cheer’.” (2/9/2012) MORE
TechCrunch: Spreecast Extends Reach Of Social Video Platform With Embed Feature
February 9, 2012For Spreecast (founded by Jeff Fluhr ENG’96/W’96), “adding the ability to embed these video broadcasts is another way to let people take part in the conversations happening on the platform.” (2/7/2012) MORE
Huffington Post: What Does Big Data Mean for This Election?
February 9, 2012Keya Dannenbaum WG’12 (co-founder of Wharton Venture Initiation Program company ElectNext) says “If 2012 is the year of the big data, and data is power, and this power is wielded with such dramatic asymmetry, how is our electoral and governance process still one that can be legitimately described as by the people, of the people and for the people?” (2/8/2012) MORE
Sprouter: How Invite Media’s Founder is Making Sure Success ‘Wasn’t a Fluke’
February 9, 2012Invite Media co-founder Nat Turner W’08 “says one of the earliest startup lessons that sticks out in his mind is ‘you get luckier the harder you work’.” (2/8/2012) MORE
“Wharton Opens New West Coast Campus in Search of Startup Appeal”
February 9, 2012Opening of new Wharton San Francisco campus covered by Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Business Week and San Francisco Chronicle. (2/9/2012)
Business Insider SAI: 9 Reasons Your Current Resume Will Never Get You A Job At Apple Or Google
February 8, 2012Gayle Laakmann McDowell (ENG’05/GEN’05/WG’11) points out some “common missteps people make when applying to the tech giants.” (2/7/2012) MORE
Tech Crunch: Kleiner Perkins Debuts First Engineering Fellows Class
February 8, 2012Congrats to Nathan Fraenkel (ENG’14), Jeff Grimes (ENG’15/W’15) and Zachary Wasserman (ENG’12) – the 3 Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellows from UPenn. (2/7/2012) MORE
Wharton alum wins one of TechCrunch’s Crunchie Awards
February 8, 2012Peixe Urbano, founded by Julio Vasconcellos W’02, wins TechCrunch Crunchie award for Best International Startup (1/31/2012) MORE
Huffington Post: “The Perfect Entrepreneurial Resume Doesn’t Exist”
February 6, 2012Wharton Lecturer Patrick FitzGerald (C’97) talks about how to overcome roadblocks to pursuing an entrepreneurial path. (2/6/2012) MORE
Lifehacker features Wharton alum founded venture
February 6, 2012Lifehacker: WanderPlayer Turns Your Smartphone Into a Controller for Flash Games (2/5/2012) MORE
Shanken News Daily: ‘Total Wine & More Launches Website Sales’
February 6, 2012“Total Wine & More [co-founded by Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs Board Member David Trone WG’85] has launched a new e-commerce website that allows consumers to shop online.” (2/3/2012) MORE
Financial Times: ‘Innovation and creativity move to the heart of the curriculum’
February 6, 2012Therese Flaherty, Director of the Wharton Small Business Development Center, talks about the SBDC’s two-fold mission of supporting local businesses and educating students. (2/6/2012) MORE
Oprah.com: ‘A Tech-y Way to Declutter Your Closet (for Non-Geeks)’
February 6, 2012Oprah Winfrey chooses Stylitics as a great way to organize and make sense of your wardrobe. (2/3/2012) MORE
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