Startup Leaders’ Blake Jennelle on Philly’s Fast Company feature

In an informal partnership with Philadelphia magazine‘s new Philly Post daily news blog, Technically Philly will be offering our insight on Philadelphia technology to a broader audience of tech-interested individuals every Tuesday. As is true of so much of our effort, this is yet another opportunity to voice the triumphs and concerns of the community to a broader audience in the city and beyond.

Silicon Valley is so last decade.

In January, business innovation magazine Fast Company ran a five-part series exploring emerging entrepreneurial technology hubs around the country. As the first cities in the series were published online, Boulder, Colorado and New York City, Blake Jennelle was pinging his network, wondering who’d been contacted by the magazine to represent Philly.

Jennelle, who keeps in close touch with hundreds of entrepreneurs in the region, is likely to have come across a lead. As far as he could tell, Philly was being counted out.

Let’s change that, he soon penned on his blog, a catalog of ruminations about Philadelphia startup scene, which boasts a healthy local following. How would you answer the question, he asked his readers, Why start a company in Philly?

For the full story, read on at Philadelphia magazine’s Philly Post.

Technically Philly featured on Chariot Tech podcast

On Friday, TP’s Sean Blanda was the lone guest on the Chariot Tech Cast, a podcast about tech hosted by Ken Rimple of Fort Washington-based Chariot Solutions [download the episode here]. Chariot was behind the Emerging Technology for the Enterprise conference earlier this year.

Though the podcast is for a national audience, TP kept it strictly Philly, chatting about the prospect of a “Philicon Valley,” the big stories we are working on and the roots of TP. Somewhere in there, the Jonas Brothers are mentioned.

The conversation is only 20 minutes long, so give it a listen while catching up on your weekend email. And, while we are at it, can we all agree that Ken has the smooth voice of a 60′s late night radio DJ?

More chatter about region’s tech future; Philly vs. Philacon Valley

There’s much ado about the future of Philadelphia’s technology scene.

Active discussions are taking place about how Philly can become a hub of technology innovation on the popular PANMA new media listserve.

Subscribers have been debating whether or not Philadelphia can become the Silicon Valley of the East coast. There’s even a few mentions of a “Philacon Valley.”

Earlier this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Technically Philly that the city met all the criteria for a tech renaissance.

Except, instead of championing Philadelphia’s long list of suburban tech companies, he suggested that tech hubs tend to grow best in urban centers.

“Do you think Schmidt understands that when you get down to brass tacks, it’s the Philly tax situation that’s keeping [Center City] tech entrepreneurship artificially suppressed,” responded one reader on the PANMA listserv.

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