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Storably.com – Peer-to-Peer Marketplace For Renting Storage Or Carpark Space

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Philadelphia-based Storably is founded by Wharton Penn graduates Josh Kowitt and Apu Gupta. The site was formally launched in Philadelphia on September 21, and the startup intends to expand nationally soon. Breaking Out Of Cold Storage. They later brought on Brendan Lowry as a community manager. Team First, Idea Later.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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You can usually find 2-3 investors per location but it’s not uncommon to see VCs in: Boston, NY, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. VCs need to go to 20 cities and pitch one firm in each location!” ” Well, ok, that’s an exaggeration. Louis, South Bend, Austin, Houston, and so forth.

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8 Activities To Satisfy Your Boss You Are Accountable

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, Howard Schultz at Starbucks was quick to accept accountability for a racial bias incident a few years ago in one of his stores in Philadelphia, and he shut down all his stores for an anti-bias training session, rather than try to blame a single store employee or overall cultural conditions.

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation from Philadelphia University. While I teach at Stanford and Berkeley, to be honest… this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. But I pointed out that he would be up against competitors that had spend years building relationships with the big financial services companies (as well as channel partners) and he was going to have to start from scratch.

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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

Since then, he has co-written several business plans with fellow classmates and recently served as team leader on a Wharton Field Challenge consulting project for PhillyCarShare, a Philadelphia-based car-sharing startup. Prior to joining ff Venture Capital, Franklin was a summer analyst at J.P.