Help Ben take on landlords
Ben Sacks has a big idea, $25,000 to spend on it and a strong network of advisers. But he's still searching for the right web developer. Does the "do good" tone to Ben's business make it unattractive to coders? Or has Ben simply stumbled into a startup challenge that every good founder needs to solve?
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Facebook campaign forces dairy price cut
Surrendering to a two-week Facebook campaign, Israeli dairy companies that control the cheese market announced they were cutting prices by 25 percent.
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Google’s Happiness Problem
I remember when Google was amazing. But recently, I find that Google isn’t my first stop. There are just so many choices, and so many of them that seem to know me better than Google does.
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Pando Projects and Stable Renters win Pitch It! Challenge
Now the hard part - the winners earned $25,000 and access to a network of world-changing We Media Mentors to help turn two big ideas into something real.
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Introducing Clear Health Costs
Clear Health Costs will offer consumer-friendly information about the costs of health care services and products.
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Introducing Fast Cast
FastCast delivers a local, personalized, video newscast straight to mobile.
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Introducing Meridian Stories
Meridian Stories is designed as a YouTube-like environment, driven by regularly scheduled, global competitions between schools, around short-form storytelling using image, words, film and music.
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Introducing Stable Renters
Stable Renters will assemble a profile and score for every rental property and owner based on a history of violations, lawsuits, pending charges, bedbugs, ceiling leaks and more.
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Introducing Longshot Media
Longshot Media is a hybrid media company that harnesses the tools of the Web and social media to create a print-on-demaand magazine.
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Introducing Neighborhood Pages
Neighborhood Pages offers affordable, custom Drupal installations to get hyper-local news & community sites up and running, and ongoing support and training to help them succeed.
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Introducing Pando Projects
Pando Projects is a digital platform that helps Americans solve problems in their communities.
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Meet the PitchIt judges and mentors
The winners and finalists of the We Media PitchIt challenge gain access to an amazing group of commercial and social venture experts. Some of the mentors will serve as judges for the challenge, some will meet the day before for a coaching session with the finalists, most will attend and join the discussions at We Media NYC - and all of them have committed to providing one-on-one advice to the challenge winners.
Read MoreKnight News Challenge deadline Dec. 1
The Knight News Challenge awards up to $5 million annually for innovative projects that use digital technology to transform the way communities send, receive and make use of news and information. The deadline for the next round of grants is Dec. 1, 2010. Learn more and apply at newschallenge.org.
Read MoreSXSW seeks news apps
SXSW Accelerator, part of the annual SXSW interactive conference, showcases new apps, products and services in front of a jury of industry experts, venture capitalists and a live audience. Info and application at SXSWi.
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