| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.12.2021 | Resource Roundup: Invest in Women x Pittsburgh is funding underrepresented founders | Resource Roundup is a look at open applications for business and career-building programs around the region. Want to tell us about a program or new opportunity for entrepreneurs and technologists? Email us at pittsburgh@technical.ly.
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| 15.10.2021 | Meet 11 Venture for America fellows working at Baltimore startups for the next two years | A new cohort of Venture for America fellows arrived in Baltimore this fall to bring a spark of youthful entrepreneurial spirit to local startups and learn the ropes of building a company themselves, with the ultimate goal of the fellows bui... |
| 14.10.2021 | Meet the 28 Venture for America fellows working at Philly startups for the next two years | Philly is a great place to grow a startup.
We hear it often enough from founders who set up shop here looking for quality talent, affordable cost of living and great work-life balance. And each year, the city also attracts bright young peop... |
| 11.10.2021 | Meet the 2021 Venture for America fellows working in Pittsburgh | Want to help grow a startup while also having job and salary security? Good news — there’s an org for that.
Venture for America matches recent college graduates with startups and growing tech companies to get them exposure to building a com... |
| 30.08.2021 | Tech Can Still Do More To Support Underrepresented Founders | If we want to really prioritize founder diversity, we need to improve economic opportunity at every ... [+] rung of the ladder, not just the last one. getty |
| 30.11.2020 | These 34 Venture for America fellows will be working across Philly’s startup scene through 2022 | Since 2013, cohorts of recent college graduates have come to Philadelphia through the Venture for America program, which matches entrepreneurship-minded grads with local high-growth startups.
The goal is to showcase the hands-on startup env... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Guide to Working Remotely and Managing Remote Teams | To help Charlotte-area entrepreneurs and innovators impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the team here at Charlotte Inno has created a guide with help from the Charlotte Venture for America fellows. We will continually update this guide as mo... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Guide to Mentorship and Support | To help Charlotte-area entrepreneurs and innovators impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the team here at Charlotte Inno has created a guide with help from the Charlotte Venture for America fellows. We will continually update this guide as mo... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Guide to Leading Employees Through the Crisis | To help Charlotte-area entrepreneurs and innovators impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the team here at Charlotte Inno has created a guide with help from the Charlotte Venture for America fellows. We will continually update this guide as mo... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Guide to Mental Health and Wellness | To help Charlotte-area entrepreneurs and innovators impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the team here at Charlotte Inno has created a guide with help from the Charlotte Venture for America fellows. We will continually update this guide as mo... |
| 09.04.2020 | COVID-19 Guide: Money and Funding Resources | To help Charlotte-area entrepreneurs and innovators impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the team here at Charlotte Inno has created a guide with help from the Charlotte Venture for America fellows. We will continually update this guide as mo... |
| 06.05.2019 | Baltimore hosted Venture for America’s regional job fair connecting new fellows and startups | Venture for America’s 2019 job fair for the northeast region was held Friday, May 3, at the R. House Garage in Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood, welcoming 50 incoming 2019 fellows for interviews with 34 companies.
Venture For America is a... |
| 05.09.2018 | These 25 Venture for America fellows just moved to Baltimore | Venture for America is kicking off its sixth cohort in Baltimore this fall.
The fellowship program connects recent college grads with entrepreneurial opportunities. Fellows work at local startups and companies for two years. Many also start... |
| 11.04.2018 | Why Philly is Venture for America’s biggest city | A robust tech and entrepreneurship community in an affordable, well located mid-Atlantic city has made the Venture for America (VFA) program — a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates — thrive in Philadelphia: out of the 1... |
| 11.04.2018 | Venture For America founder Andrew Yang is running for president in 2020 and wants to give everyone $1,000 a month in free cash | Your probably never heard of Andrew Yang. However, he is well-known in the tech community. Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the Founder of Venture for America (VFA). He has worked in startups and early stage growth companies as a fo... |
| 29.03.2018 | These VFA fellows want comedians to get paid for their internet videos | Elisa Meyer and Ariana Ross are looking to find the internet’s next comedy stars, and pay them for their work in the process.
The Venture for America fellows created Actually Good, a platform that’s looking to help comedians get paid while ... |
| 18.03.2018 | Andrew Yang is running for President to save America from the robots | Tom Goodwin Contributor
Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast.
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| 24.10.2017 | Why Millennials Are Moving to Downtown Cleveland | What was once the 5th largest city in the country is now a midsize city with a small town feel. The people of Cleveland, Ohio take great pride in building their city and supporting the businesses in their hometown. What you might not see be... |
| 15.08.2017 | Venture for America Announces Fund to Invest in Fellow-Founded Companies | Venture for America (VFA), a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates interested in entrepreneurship and working in a fast-paced, innovative startup environment, announced the close of a fund—the VFA Seed Fund I—to invest in... |
| 02.08.2017 | How Venture for America helps Baltimore find and keep talent | Albeit small, Baltimore’s startup community is a thriving one. Just 45 minutes outside of the District, the city’s innovation scene is rich with opportunity and talent.
Maybe that’s why Baltimore is one of the most successful places working... |
| 02.08.2017 | How Venture for America helps Baltimore find and keep talent | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Albeit small, Baltimore’s startup community is a ... |
| 30.01.2017 | Leslie Miley leaves Slack to fuel growth in startup communities outside of Silicon Valley | Leslie Miley, the former engineering manager at Twitter and now-former director of engineering at Slack, has just announced his latest move. Miley left Slack at the beginning of this year and is now working with Venture for America for the ... |
| 23.12.2016 | Tech is disrupting American society — here’s what we need to do about it | “Disruption” is the buzzword du jour in tech. Every pitch in every coffee shop in Silicon Valley is peppered with the term. Such overuse risks rendering the word meaningless.
But in the weeks since the election, “disruption” has taken on a ... |
| 23.12.2016 | Tech is disrupting American society — here’s what we need to do about it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“Disruption” is the buzzword du jour in tech. Eve... |
| 12.09.2016 | Content collaboration startup Slope closes $1M round, product now available to the public | Slope co-founders Brian Bosché and Dan Bloom at GeekWire Startup Day 2016
GeekWire Startup Day champ Slope, a Seattle-based company that makes software to help teams manage and collaborate on multimedia content, said it has completed a $1 m... |
| 10.08.2016 | Venture for America’s accelerator brought 7 startups to Philly again | Leigh Sevin and Jinesh Shah want you to get to your next meeting in style.
The pair runs Arthur, a startup that connects users with personal stylists. After meeting as Venture for America (VFA) fellows in Miami, they’re here in Philadelphia... |
| 29.04.2016 | The Biggest Threat for Startups? Student Loan Debt | Entrepreneurship is growing in popularity on campuses nationwide as colleges and universities try to cultivate a do-it-yourself culture with courses, clubs and maker spaces. But another trend in higher education threatens to derail young en... |
| 12.04.2016 | Jeff Selingo Gives Students a Blueprint for Life After College | Ask people about the value of college today, and you’ll get a bewildering mix of answers. Optimists savor a 2014 Federal Reserve study showing that people with diplomas earn $830,000 more than non-graduates over their lifetimes. Skeptics re... |
| 16.03.2016 | These 24 Will Startups Compete at Launch Pad PITCH in New Orleans | This week is New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week, an eight-day-long event dedicated to highlighting and celebrating the quickly-growing startup scene in New Orleans, LA. Featuring more than 120 showcasing companies and speakers such as Reddit... |
| 08.06.2015 | These Venture for America foodies want to get chefs and customers talking | For a quartet of Venture for America fellows, the spirit of entrepreneurship carries over into their pursuits outside work. Namely, satisfying hunger.
“We wanted to put our own stamp on the food scene here in Baltimore,” said Dimitri Fautsc... |
| 13.03.2015 | Detroit’s Ash & Anvil Offers Clothes for Hard-to-Fit Shorter Guys | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If your body type deviates from “standard” proportions for your age or gender, it can be challenging to find clothes that fit off the rack.
That frustration has led to a new, ... |
| 05.03.2015 | These 6 startups just moved to Philly for the new Venture for America Accelerator | After six months as long distance cofounders, Claire Kim and Kate Leisy are finally in the same city: Philadelphia.
The pair spent the last two years working at startups (Kim at Providence’s Swipely and Leisy at Center City’s Curalate). Mor... |
| 16.02.2015 | These 27 Baltimore tech firms are hiring right now [NET/WORK] | If you want a job in tech, look no further than NET/WORK — the tech jobs fair organized by Technical.ly.
More than twenty businesses, startups and organizations that are looking to hire will be at the Emerging Technology Centers’ Haven Camp... |
| 18.11.2014 | Peter Thiel: ‘You don’t want to be the Harvard of North Dakota’ [Technical.ly Podcast] | Peter Thiel says what’s really going to define a technology ecosystem for a city is getting to a point where successful startups stick around and plant a flag.
That seems to be happening in Brooklyn.
Makerbot says it’s not going anywhere. E... |
| 05.11.2014 | On entrepreneurship: Thiel, Dorsey, Conwell [Technical.ly Podcast] | Most startups fail.
So what can we learn from those who took an idea to launch, beat the odds (or not) and then did it all over again? This month on the Technical.ly Podcast we hear from repeat entrepreneurs. Internet titans, sure; but also... |
| 17.09.2014 | Report from Techonomy Detroit: Bridging the Digital Divide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Correction, 9/24/2014, 9:36 a.m. See below.] Detroit’s bankruptcy, while humbling and damaging to the city, has also brought “extraordinary” national interest to the Motor Ci... |
| 18.08.2014 | Venture for America announces 2014 class of Baltimore fellows | Venture for America announced Friday 15 fellows for its second class in the Baltimore area.
The fellows will join local startups. Ten from this year’s cohort are headed to the Federal Hill-based cybersecurity firm ZeroFOX.
Venture for Ameri... |
| 07.05.2014 | BFTP invests $975K // RJMetrics CEO gets NYTimes column [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Spor, the Drexel-based startup that was developing a solar-powered battery charger, raised $20,000, according to an SEC filing.
Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners invested $975,000 in nine companies, including Sidec... |
| 23.07.2013 | 7 Venture for America fellows placed with TEDCO, Pegged, Riskive, Vigilant | Venture for America, the two-year-old nonprofit that places plucky college graduates in two-year jobs with startups across the U.S., expanded to Baltimore, Philadelphia and several other cities in 2013.
Baltimore’s Venture for America fello... |
| 31.05.2013 | Venture for America’s 2nd Class Brings out LinkedIn and HuffPo Bosses | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Last night Venture for America celebrated its second, and much larger, class of fellows with the help of The Huffington Post’s president, Arianna Huffington, and LinkedIn CEO ... |
| 01.05.2013 | Venture for America will place IT talent with Philly startups for 8th market | The national nonprofit Venture for America, which places elite recent graduates in two-year fellowships with startups in non-traditional technology markets, is officially making Philadelphia its eighth and largest market, said founder Andre... |
| 30.04.2013 | Venture for America makes first Baltimore fellow placement at cybersecurity startup Riskive | Riskive, the Betamore-based cybersecurity startup, is the first Baltimore company to receive a Venture for America fellow.
Clara Gustafson
Clara Gustafson is a science, technology and international affairs major at Georgetown University‘s S... |
| 27.09.2012 | Venture for America calls for Baltimore startups to apply for entrepreneurship fellows [VIDEO] | The founder of Venture for America, the year-old nonprofit that matches entrepreneurship fellows with budding startups in nascent technology markets, has a clear message for Baltimore ventures.
Tell them that you exist and you would be inte... |
| 26.09.2012 | Venture for America hits town // NewsUp launches trivia feature // Join Cdling’s online startup directory [Startup Roundup] | This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem.
Venture for America throws its launch party today at the Emerging Technology Center in Cant... |
| 04.09.2012 | Zappos’ Tony Hsieh Bets on Both Schools and Jobs to Jumpstart Vegas | Downtown Las Vegas is not on most tourists’ radar. Most attention is lavished on the Strip, that long-time glimmering outpost of vice, decadence and easy riches, swathed in that suggestive slogan, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... |
| 10.07.2012 | Venture for America coming to Baltimore in 2013 | Venture for America, the nonprofit that places college graduates in two-year commitments with startup companies nationwide, will expand to Baltimore in 2013, according to Mike Tarullo, VFA’s director of corporate development.
“I think it’s ... |
| 13.06.2012 | Venture for America Unveils First Fellows Bound for Detroit, Other Cities | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Venture for America believes that attracting talented college graduates to cities grappling with unemployment may help jumpstart those local economies, and now it’s moving for... |
| 31.05.2012 | Can Develop Detroit Make You a Talented Mobile Developer in 90 Days? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Starting June 11th, Develop Detroit kicks off its inaugural 12-week program that promises to take attendees from coding novices to capable mobile developers able to build an i... |
| 27.09.2011 | Startup culture observations from local students | The following is a guest post from members of the student-run Hopkins Consulting Agency at Johns Hopkins University.
About a year ago, Mike Subelsky wrote a blog post on this site titled Baltimore’s Startup Ecosystem. In it he highlighted t... |
| 20.07.2011 | Venture for America Sends Entrepreneurial Talent To The Cities That Need It Most | It’s no secret that there are a relatively small number of regions that most startups call home — namely Silicon Valley and, increasingly, NYC. And talented recent college grads (even those that don’t pursue a career involving startups) are... |
