Wharton alum Keya Dannenbaum, co-founder of ElectNext, discusses “the move from campaign worker to CEO.” MORE
Archive for May, 2012
Recruiter.com: 4 New Job Search Tools to Check Out in 2012
May 31, 2012Recruiter.com names Meeteor (founded by Phil Cortes and Chris Lee, both WG’11) as one of its favorite innovations for the job search. MORE
2012 Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) Enterprise Awards
May 24, 2012Greenphire, founded by Samuel Whitaker C’02/CGS’04, has won the 2012 Philadelphia PACT Enterprise Award in the Technology Startup division. MORE
Mashable: Terefic Takes the Guesswork Out of Job References
May 24, 2012Terefic, founded by Emmanuel Toutain WG’04, is “bringing references into the Internet age.” MORE
Entrepreneur Magazine: 100 Brilliant Companies list
May 24, 2012Entrepreneur Magazine names Stylitics (co-founded by Rohan Deuskar WG’11) & GiftSimple (founded by Jessica Lachs WG’11) to its 100 Brilliant Companies list. MORE
US Department of Energy awards 2nd place to VIP alum
May 23, 2012Melon, founded by Craig Isakow WG’08, wins 2nd place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Apps for Energy contest. MORE
Pagalguy.com: ‘Work before getting an MBA if you want to be a better professional’
May 22, 2012CEO of Hector Beverages (maker of Tzinga) tells Pagalguy.com how Wharton positively influenced his entrepreneurial career path. MORE
The Next Web: Felicis, the super angel fund started by former Google exec Aydin Senkut, raises $52 million
May 22, 2012Felicis Ventures – founded by Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs advisory board member Aydin Senkut WG’96 – raises a new fund. MORE
Fast Company: Free Stuff! Finally, A Deals Site That Doesn’t Suck
May 21, 2012Fast Company interviews Merchant Exchange founder and Venture Initiation Program alum Michael Tolkin W’07. MORE
New York Times Asia: Schools Go Into the ‘Cloud’ to Embrace the Popularity of Social Media
May 21, 2012Wharton alum Hunter Horsley, head of Marketing & Operations at Lore (fka Coursekit) comments on the evolution of Learning Management Systems. MORE
Wall Street Journal: Joining the M.B.A. Chase
May 21, 2012Career Management’s Maria Halpern discusses how Wharton reaches out to recruiters at small companies & start-ups. MORE
Click Orlando (WKMG Local 6): Buying Glasses Online
May 18, 2012“Companies like Warby Parker…are cutting out the middleman by producing their own premium quality frames in-house. The result is high end fashion and low end costs.” MORE
MO.com interviews Wharton alum Lenny Fishman
May 18, 2012Learn more about Wharton Venture Initiation Program company Pledge4Good with co-founder Lenny Fishman WG’12 MORE
AdAge: When Big Ideas Come from Small Companies
May 18, 2012AdAge highlights Wharton alum founded Warby Parker as an example of a company with “fresh” & “ingenious” marketing. MORE
Why aren’t there more traditional tech entrepreneurs in healthcare?
May 17, 2012Wharton alum Nat Turner (W’08) gives 3 reasons to answer the question “Why aren’t more of the super-smart young entrepreneurs coming out of college choosing healthcare as their industry to build a startup?” MORE
Business Insider: A New Way For Luxury Brands To ‘Discreetly’ Connect With The Young And Wealthy
May 17, 2012“For luxury brands, a partnership with Merchant Exchange (founded by Venture Initiation Program alum Michael Tolkin W’07) is a more discreet way to connect with consumers than standard social media channels, and puts them in front of a curated audience of spenders.” MORE
Barrons: U.S.Economy: It’s all in the Family
May 16, 2012Barrons reports on a 2008 study conducted by Wharton Entrepreneurship Academic Director Professor Raffi Amit on family-controlled businesses. MORE
Two alums named to Fast Company’s list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business
May 15, 2012Congratulations to Cyrus Massoumi (W’98) of ZocDoc & Neil Blumenthal (WG’10) of Warby Parker for being named to Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business list!
Wharton alum founded Curalate raises seed round and officially launches
May 15, 2012From TechCrunch: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate [co-founded by Apu Gupta WG’05] Lands $750k Seed From NEA, First Round, MentorTech
From AllThingsD: Pinterest Prompts a Start-Up’s Pivot: Meet Curalate, an Analytics Engine for Images
May 14, 2012
The 2012 Wharton Business Plan Competition Venture Finals were featured in a number of media outlets, including Forbes, The San Francisco Chronicle, FlyingKite Media, Digital Journal, Philadelphia Business Journal and Technically Philly.
New York Times: In New York’s Water Pipes, Seeing an Electricity Source
May 14, 2012Rentricity (with Director of Corporate Development Eric Lesser W’07) is “Seeing Source of Electricity in Water Pipes” MORE
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