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.
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Plan 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.
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Launching this month: StableRenters
2011 PitchIt winner Ben Sacks makes entrepreneur his day job - and preps his first product for launch this month.
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Building 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.
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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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My 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.
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NewsIt crowdsources DC subway investigation
If you live in Washington, DC, and can offer a little bit of your time, sign up and check out the project details. You can go down into the subway to see how long it takes to escape, or assist with mapping data and other text, photo and video tasks. NewsIt won our 2010 PitchIt Challenge, and we've been advising the project since then.
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PitchIt ranked among world’s top startup challenges
Australian web site StartupSmart has ranked the We Media PitchIt! Challenge among the world’s top 10 startup...
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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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