We hope you’ve recovered from BarCamp, Philadelphia (post coming today) because there are two more all day events slated for this week. And, honestly, we’d take the day off for both if we were you.
This week: Philly Startup Leaders talk shop, TEDxPhilly is finally here and the Wordcamp crew is ready to keep it going.
Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:
Cadence Watch Company: The 4-bit binary watch by Cadence: “Simple, geeky, and clean, the Cadence 4-Bit watch is stylish without being gaudy,” says CrunchGear. Technically Philly readers get 25% off to make holiday shopping easy.
Springboard Media – Springboard Media is a certified Apple Specialist and retailer based in Center City and now, in Exton. They’ve got a ton of accessories and a great trade-in program that can score you up to $1,500 when you’re ready to upgrade.
Volpe and Koenig, P.C. — Since 1987, intellectual property boutique law firm Volpe and Koenig has provided guidance on matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, e-commerce, technology joint ventures, non-disclosure agreements, technology acquisitions, licensing and litigation. Whatever your intellectual property law issue… Volpe and Koenig bring law to your ideas.
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce – The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to promoting growth and economic development, advocating for sound public policy, and serving its members with outstanding programs and benefits. GPCC is the premier advocate of the region’s business community, representing members in 11 counties across three states with one voice.
Brolik Productions Customers visit your website and immediately judge your company. Will they stay or will they go? Brolik delivers innovative design, original content and a tasteful product that equals long-term loyalty for your brand and sour grapes for the competition.
Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.
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We’ve written before that Philadelphia needs a technology week, when the entire region can more easily connect with our vibrant technology community with a series of daily events. It would be a chance to celebrate what makes this city an amazing place to be a techie.
Allow us to propose that the week of April 25th to 29th be declared Philly Tech Week.
Much like Philly Beer Week, we think it should be a networked collection of events that will help spread awareness about Philadelphia technology community.
We’ll provide a central place for coordination, where organizers and attendees can see the schedule, receive updates, and more. As you may have seen on Twitter, there’s already movement from a few well-known groups in Philadelphia, and we’d like to see more community traction.
So, you want to get involved? Here’s the plan:
Some events which are already scheduled include Technically Philly’s next Switch event and Chariot Solutions’ Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. We’ve got a few more tricks up our sleeves and we’re connecting with more people, organizations and companies about Tech Week each day.
In the meantime, we’ll be hard at work reaching out to folks, updating Phillytechweek.com (with a proper logo, of course) and working with anyone interested in making Philly Tech Week rock.
Consider this a first step. We welcome all thoughts in the comments and encourage you to reach out via email.
When Peter Jauss of Berwyn-based computer accessory manufacturer PARAT Solutions approached Apple with his idea to design a Made For iPod multi-unit docking station, the engineers at Cupertino had a very strong recommendation for him.
“They said, ‘if you ever hear us ‘strongly recommend’ something, you do it. You might not understand why. It might add cost. But we’re seeing something that’s forward-looking that you can’t see.”
So when Jauss got the contract from Apple to be able develop PARAT’s solution with the coveted MFi Apple-supported sticker, he didn’t ask questions about some of the changes they made in the design specs.
“It was data communication stuff, something to do with the interference between multiple devices,” he explains. “But it was a great thing. Because we carry that badge, it adds credibility.”
Since, the company has been focused on improving its innovative docking solutions for Apple products. Take its PARASYNC product, which allows for the ability to charge and sync up to 20 iPod and iPhones to a single iTunes library. For institutions and large organizations — like schools, universities, museums and resorts — which manage a large number of the mobile devices, it’s a lifeline.
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Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated newsletter or RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.
Updated, 9:49 a.m.: Clarified number of vcopious virtual attendees.
MUST READS
As the Philadelphia Business Journal reports, advertising agency Red Tettemer has acquired Stick and Move and will be changing its title to Red Tettemer + Partners.
Virtual environment software platform vcopious announced by email Friday that it successfully hosted the SAP TechEd conference last month, allowing 13,000 people to attend virtually.
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Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pass along to us, please drop us a line.
Updated: Corrected Wish Upon a Hero item.
DEFINITE READS
According to SEC filings Ticketleap has raised $340,000 of $750,000 in debt. MentorTech Ventures managing partner Michael Aronson and Sandwith Ventures managing partner Colin Evans are listed on the filing. Both are on the company’s board. If you remember, Ticketleap stealthy raised $2.5 million last year.
MentorTech has been busy lately. As we reported yesterday Diapers.com, a longtime MentorTech portfolio company, was purchased by Amazon this week.
GoodCompany Ventures grad Wish Upon a Hero has raised nearly $1 million, according to SEC filings.
Event Details:
When: 11/17. 6:30 p.m.
Where: 3711 Market Street
Interested in attending?
Allow us to invite you, dear reader, to come on out November 17th to NextFab for a joint NextFab Open House / Technically Philly meetup at the University City Science Center.
The plan is for a casual hangout to see the wicked cool toys that NextFab members get to use everyday such as the hacking space’s 3D printer. And once you’re done playing with NextFab’s toys, chat about all things Philly with your humble Technically Philly correspondents.
Light snacks will be provided.
Looks like those in the exit market are doing their Christmas shopping a little early in Philly.
On the heels of Stuzo’s sale to Dachis Group and Boomi’s sale to Dell one of Philly’s oldest Internet companies has joined the party.
Diapers.com, an e-commerce store founded in 2005 that sells early childhood goods, has reportedly sold to Amazon for $500 million in cash. The company, while based in Jersey City, has deep Philly roots.
The company is funded partly by MentorTech Ventures and run by Penn graduates Vinit Bharara and Marc Lore. The company raised its Series E round earlier this year to bring the total funding amount for the company to $78.5 million. According to an article in Forbes earlier this year, Lore owns 9.5 percent of the company and Bharara owns 8 percent.
We’ll let you do that math on that payout.
Is the recent wave of exits a sign of the Philly startup community’s health or just coincidence?
Update: See Amazon’s official statement here.
So, um, there’s a lot going on this week.
From World Usability Day to BarCamp and nearly a dozen other events, the events calendar should have something for everyone. Alas, dear reader only three can be this week’s event highlights.
This week: Barcamp strikes back, Net Tuesday gets political and PACT holds its trademark event.
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