CBS News: Smart pill bottle could help you take your meds on time

CBS News ran a segment on AdhereTech’s smart pill bottle, which could help you take your meds on time. Great press for founder Josh Stein WG’12! Watch the video and read more HERE.

HLN: Clear vision: Warby Parker eyes business & giving

Warby Parker, founded by 4 Wharton alumni, was honored, along with their philanthropic partner Vision Spring, at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation awards. Way to disrupt, guys! Read MORE

Philly.com: Digital health startup wants to disrupt how health-care professionals care for patients

Divya Dhar WG’14 tells Philly.com how Seratis is going to disrupt how health-care professionals care for patients. Read MORE

60 Minutes: Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk’s industrial empire

“Musk may be changing the car the way Steve Jobs changed the phone.”
60 Minutes does an amazing segment on Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Industrial Empire. MORE

NPR’s Marketplace: Shop and charge: stores offer cellphone charging

NPR’s Marketplace looks at whether Wharton alum Doug Baldasare’s ChargeItSpot actually translates to more sales for brick-and-mortar shops. MORE

Axis Philly: Innovation, Inc.

“He took a place that was just a bunch of laboratories and some office buildings, and made it a vibrant centerpiece of our entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

That’s Steve Goodman W’62,L’65, longtime Morgan Lewis startup lawyer and WE board member, talking about Steve Tang WG’92, and all he’s done to transform the University City Science Center. MORE

Forbes: Elon Musk’s 500,000 Unit Battery Plant – Myth or Reality?

Elon Musk C’97/W’97 is investing $2 billion in car batteries — with a goal of producing 500,000 annually by 2020.
Forbes asks: do the numbers add up? MORE

Business Insider: You Can Explain eBay’s $50 Billion Turnaround With Just This One Crazy Story

Assemble a team of six of the smartest people you know. Fly to Australia on a whim. Book a penthouse via AirBnB. In just 2 weeks, transform the eBay homepage and save the company.

This is the business version of an action movie–and it really happened. Read this awesome article about how Wharton alumnus Jack Abraham used his entrepreneurial smarts to make eBay great again. Because what big companies need, as it turns out, are entrepreneurs.

Shout outs to Wharton Entrepreneurship alumni Nat Turner and Zack Weinberg, too! MORE

TechCrunch: Keen On… Slava Rubin: How Indiegogo Is Reinventing Capitalism

WATCH: Is Indiegogo blowing up capitalism?

Slava Rubin W’00, founder of the crowdfunding platform, talks to Tech Crunch about the future of funding and innovation, and answers the above question… Watch the video to see what he has to say.  MORE

The Boston Globe: Young college investors back vending machine

Dorm Room Fund came out of First Round Capital, founded by Josh Kopelman W’93, right here in Philly. But of course it’s on campuses across the country, investing in college students.

Now Boston’s Dorm Room Fund has made it’s first investment: $20K for Refresh Water Technologies, an MIT student startup making environmentally friendly vending machines. MORE

Technically Philly: These 6 winning Penn mobile apps will be built by software companies

There were supposed to be only 5 winners of the AppItUP Challenge, but the ideas for mobile apps were too good. Of the nearly 200 mobile app ideas submitted by Penn students, 6 will be turned into actual prototypes by software development companies. MORE

LA Times: SpaceX reaches milestone in rocket launch from Cape Canaveral

Third time’s the charm for SpaceX (founded by amazing inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk C’97/W’97)! The Falcon 9 launched at last, lifting a 7,000 telecommunications satellite.

Who knows what they’ll put into space next! MORE

TNooz: Travel startup lessons learned from idea to glory in 12 months

Ryan Frankel WG’12 & Kunal Sarda WG’11, founders of VerbalizeIt, the “human translation platform” recently named travel startup of the year at the PhoCusWright travel Innovation summit, tell tnooz their five pieces of entrepreneurial advice. Read them here: MORE

NPR: Businesses Woo Customers With Free Phone-Charging Stations

NPR picks up the story of ChargeItSpot, founded by Doug Baldasare WG’12 — the company that lets you charge your phone while you shop or dine. MORE

Metro: Shop and charge: Philly guy makes it possible

Is ChargeItSpot the next AC?

“Doug Baldasare sees his smartphone charging stations as the next air conditioner.

“When air conditioning first came out,” said the Wharton grad, ‘it wasn’t an understood thing that a retail store had to have it. But eventually, when all the stores had air conditioning, you couldn’t not have air.'”

Doug Baldasare WG’12 just can’t stop getting great press for ChargeItSpot! MORE

USA Today: SpaceX launch delayed until Thanksgiving

“Want to be super careful, so pushing launch to Thurs.,” said Elon Musk, C’97/W’97 and SpaceX founder and CEO. So alaos, the Falcon failed to fly yesterday. But keep an eye out on Thanksgiving for a rocket launch – the best possible addition to a turkey dinner, if you ask me. MORE

USA Today: SpaceX satellite launch is a potential game-changer

Three, two, one… liftoff!

That’s what SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk C’97/W’97, hopes to hear today at 5:37 pm, when their upgraded falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch.

Space just got exciting again… MORE

Hospitality Net: PhoCusWright Announces the Next Generation of Groundbreaking Travel Innovators

The Most Innovative Startup Company: VerbalizeIt!

Co-founded by Ryan Frankel WG’12, this Shark Tank winner has now also scored a place as one of the Next Generation of Groundbreaking Travel Innovators. MORE

Daily News: Smartphone owners get a charge out of his kiosks

Just love how much terrific press Doug Baldasare WG’12 and his company ChargeItSpot are getting these days. Terrific interview in Philly.com about how he founded the business — and a nice shout out to VIP! (Thanks, Doug!) MORE

Wired: An Ice Cream Geek Reinvents the Scoop So It Won’t Snap Your Wrist

Wharton prof Karl Ulrich put together his design savvy and his love of ice cream scoops (he has “one of the largest ice cream scoop collections in North America”), and created this gorgeous new scoop.

It even looks delicious. (And for an extra $10, get a southpaw version!) MORE

Wired: An Exoskeleton That Boosts Biceps Wins James Dyson’s $45,000 Prize

Destroy the button! With your battery-powered upper-body exoskeleton! Iron Man!

A team of Penn students won $45K from the Dyson Prize for the innovative design of this awesome robot bicep. Which will probably be more generally used by stroke victims, but I like to imagine its crime-fighting potential. And love that photo. MORE

Coverage of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-12/revealed-elon-musk-explains-the-hyperloop

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/16/elon-musk-hyperloop-going-nowhere

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/elon-musk-reveals-design-hyperloop/story?id=19940273

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-hyperloop-plan-2013-8

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/08/12/elon-musk-details-800-mph-hyperloop-transport/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/15/211386439/a-closer-look-at-elon-musks-much-hyped-hyperloop

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0812/Hyperloop-Elon-Musk-imagines-a-tubular-future-of-travel-video

http://www.space.com/22347-hyperloop-elon-musk-transportation-technology-inforgraphic.html

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/13/4616792/elon-musk-hyperloop-high-speed-travel

http://allthingsd.com/20130812/hyperloop-elon-musks-really-rapid-transit-system/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/08/elon-musk-hyperloop.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/08/13/hyperloop-elon-musk-tesla-space-x/2646969/

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-12/revealed-elon-musk-explains-the-hyperloop

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/08/12/hyperloop-elon-musks-vision-for-air-travel-might-be-crazy-or-it-might-be-the-future/

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/08/hyperloop-elon-musk/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/08/12/elon-musk-to-reveal-hyperloop-plans-after-a-trickle-of-hints/

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/12/news/economy/hyperloop-elon-musk/index.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323446404579011083553854674.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/elon-musk-s-ingenious-implausible-hyperloop.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/transportation/2013/08/elon_musk_s_hyperloop_a_realistic_alternative_to_high_speed_rail.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57598206/spacex-founder-elon-musk-unveils-plans-for-hyperloop/

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/why-hyperloop-transit-system-far-sure-thing-elon-musk-6C10912162

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/08/14/we-could-make-elon-musks-hyperloop-real/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130813-elon-musk-hyperloop-praise-skepticism/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/13/elon_musk_unveils_hyperloop_the_subsonic_tube_of_tomorrow/

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/518076/experts-raise-doubts-over-elon-musks-hyperloop-dream/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/la-to-san-francisco-in-30-minutes-paypal-founder-elon-musk-unveils-800mph-hyperloop-trains-8758316.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2390672/Elon-Musks-Hyperloop-SuperTube-shoot-LA-San-Francisco-30-MINUTES.html

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-elon-musks-hyperloop-latest-of-many-wacky-la-transit-plans-20130813,0,2960642.story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23666173

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/musks-hyperloop-is-a-political-manifesto.html

Philadelphia Inquirer: Help innovation thrive in Philly

Stephen Tang (WG’92), CEO & President of the University City Science Center, discusses the “three critical areas that should be a part of any conversation about the intersection of innovation and entrepreneurship.” MORE

Bloomberg Businessweek: With SolarCity IPO, Elon Musk May Get Clean Tech Right

“‘It’s possible that Elon’s two clean-tech companies will be the two most successful clean-tech companies in the U.S.,’ said Peter Thiel, the entrepreneur, investor, and Facebook board member.” MORE

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Elon Musk And The Space Race

Elon Musk C’97/W’97 discusses SpaceX and Tesla Motors and the future of transportation on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. MORE