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Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Brian James Kirk — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:30:22 +0000

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

NextFab Studio — NextFab is a membership-based, high-tech workshop and prototyping center. Our facility provides comfortable, clean, and safe workspaces with hand tools, 3D printers, computer controlled machine tools, software, and electronics workbenches. Expert instructors and a community of collaborators are on hand to help you problem-solve and achieve your vision. NextFab Studio has everything necessary for you to invent, repair, create, and innovate!

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.

Tek Lado Magazine: technology and pop culture magazine for the new bilingual generation, TekLado – published in English and Spanish – caters to Hispanic and non-Hispanic geeks, gamers, techies, comix fans and more. The mag hits the streets of Philadelphia on Septempber 22, 2010.

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.

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Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Advertising — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:00:59 +0000

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

Towerstream – Towerstream is the leading 4G service provider in the U.S. and is setting up shop in Philadelphia. Contact Towerstream to find out how, in less than a week, you can have first-class 4G service for your business.

Eight Eleven – The folks at Camden-based Eight Eleven do it all. Branding, communications, marketing, advertising, Websites, Web content management, user-experience (Web & software) and public relations. And they also do it for a lot of tech companies, of all sizes, to boot. Heck, they even customized a media kit just for you. Hit ‘em up.

Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Advertising — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:00:57 +0000

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Advertising — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:00:52 +0000

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Advertising — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:00:10 +0000

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Nonprofit Technology Resources – Fairmount-based NTR refurbishes used computers and peripherals for families and individuals in Philadelphia who may not otherwise be able to afford to buy a computer. We urge you to donate to this great local cause.

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Advertising — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:00:28 +0000

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Advertising — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:16 +0000

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

Philly Startup Leaders to throw BBQ

Sean Blanda — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:45:15 +0000

Update: Corrected the date Jennelle moved to the city.

Philly Startup Leaders has come a long way from eight guys talking shop over beers in September 2007.

“I knew right away it was not going to be a one-time thing,” co-founder Blake Jennelle says.

Jennelle had been living in the city for two years before deciding to start his own company in 2007. As he attended various events, he met those in similar situations, each thinking they were alone. After speaking with one entrepreneur after another, he encouraged them to all come out and talk business.

Since that fateful first meeting, PSL has blossomed into the largest and most active community of startup entrepreneurs in the region.

“You wouldn’t have recognized the city two years ago,” says Jennelle pointing to explosion of technology and startup organizations in 2007, including his own.

Since 2007, PSL has added roughly 400 members and is preparing for what they consider their third major event — a BBQ offering a chance for startup companies to mingle and network with one another.

Event Details:

When: Thursday, July 9, 2009
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Where:
Jamaican Jerk Hut
1436 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19146

How: Register

$15 for startups

$25 for others

In what PSL hopes is a big summer networking bash, their Summer BBQ will take place next Thursday, July 9th at the Jamaican Jerk Hut on South Street. The plan is to help current PSL members get to know each other while attracting those in the community that have yet to make it out to a PSL event.

“If you believe this city has massive potential … then [you] should absolutely be there. This is a community that’s pushing to make it happen in Philadelphia,” says co-organzier of the event Aaron McLean.

McLean, who is the creative director and an executive vice president at Camden, N.J.-based marketing firm Eight Eleven is a member of PSL’s Board of Directors. McLean is also on of PSL’s six listed co-founders and was involved with the group from its early days.

McLean, along with Tracey Welson-Rossman, organizer of March’s Emerging Technology for the Enterprise Expo, has been put in charge of organizing the event.

To attend, tickets to the BBQ are $15 per person for startup companies and $25 for those not affiliated with a company or for those who belonging to a company that has been operational for longer than three years.

All who are interested may attend, though PSL strongly prefers that you are in someway involved, or interested in, the Philadelphia entrepreneurship community. In other words: don’t come to sell something and don’t just come for the food.

“We don’t want this to become what we call a service provider event where there are two entrepreneurs and 100 service providers,” says McLean who added that if you aren’t sure, check the group’s membership criteria.

“We just want everyone to be relaxed and to get to know each other really well to build a stronger foundation for our community,” says McLean.

THE FUTURE OF PSL

As PSL is buckling down for the BBQ next week, we asked Jennelle what the future holds for Philly Startup Leaders.

With PSL boating roughly 400 members and well on its way to planning its third event, Jennelle acknowledges that the group’s initial goal of establishing a community is likely coming to a close. Now, he says, the group must turn its attention to sustainability.

“We have no dramatic dragons we are going to slay, [we want to] just continue being an inspirational force for entrepreneurship in Philly,” he says.

PSL now has some money in the bank from sponsorships and is now officially a nonprofit, making it a bit of a startup itself with a goal of providing a platform for anyone’s ideas to increase Philadelphia’s profile in the national startup community, all while providing support to newcomers.

“It’s not about sitting around and bitching [about] how hard it is to start a company here. We’re entrepreneurs, let’s do something about it,” Jennelle says.