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PDF PitchIt Challenge offers $50K for digital media startups
Calling all media, technology and social dreamers: The 2012 We Media PitchIt Challenge is open to entries. The challenge offers $50,000 in seed funding to help turn ideas for innovative media and technology startups into something real. To submit an idea to the challenge or vote on others, go to: wemedia.com/pitchit.
read morePlan now: We Media conference and PitchIt challenge
Mark your calendar and plan to be there: The annual We Media innovation conference will be April 18 at USAToday / Gannett in McLean, Virginia. We'll be sending invitations and registration details soon. Contact us now if you'd like to participate as a sponsor.
read moreLaunching this month: StableRenters
2011 PitchIt winner Ben Sacks makes entrepreneur his day job - and preps his first product for launch this month.
read moreWatch this space
Once again, We Media is designing new space. There’s the physical space of weSpace, the co-working hub we’re launching for entrepreneurs and digital creatives. There’s the social space where we connect innovators through technology, collaboration and creativity. And there’s the space between the ears where we consider our place in a shape-shifting world.
read moreBuilding the prototype: Smaller, cheaper
Old plan: Scrape all data, build giant app, spend all money. New plan: Build small app, get data from city government, make app bigger, spend less money.
read moreAn app for 9/11 also explores the future of books
Just in time for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a new iPad App explores the past, present and future of the World Trade Center. For story-tellers and publishers, the app also explores new territory and a new template for digital books - in this case, a collection of stories told mainly through video.
read moreHelp 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?
read moreFacebook 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.
read moreMy big check is still on display, next to my ficus
The experience with We Media was my inflection point. Since then, we’ve made some beautiful progress. Fundraising is a lot harder than anticipated, but we’re getting there.
read moreGoogle’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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