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PitchIt Challenge offers $50K for digital media startups

Posted by Andrew Nachison on Feb 1, 2012 in Pitch It | 0 comments

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.

Building the prototype: Smaller, cheaper

Posted by Ben Sacks on Nov 4, 2011 in Founder Chronicles | 0 comments

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.

PitchIt ranked among world’s top startup challenges

Posted by Andrew Nachison on May 24, 2011 in Investment, News Releases & Updates, Pitch It | 9 comments

Australian web site StartupSmart has ranked the We Media PitchIt! Challenge among the world’s top 10 startup...

A startup founder pays it forward

Posted by Larry Meyer on Mar 9, 2011 in Pitch It | 8 comments

The newest journalism class at the University of Miami gives digital natives a chance to research, test and pitch new business ideas - and learn a thing or two from PitchIt Challenge winner Lucas Sommer.

Announcing the PitchIt Challenge finalists

Posted by Andrew Nachison on Mar 2, 2011 in Pitch It | 41 comments

Here they are - introducing nine awesome ideas we'd love to see come to life, and we're going to do our best to help them. Meet the 2011 finalists of the We Media PitchIt Challenge.

Call for entries: $50k for media startups

Posted by Andrew Nachison on Jan 11, 2011 in Pitch It | 29 comments

Entries are now closed for the 2011 We Media PitchIt Challenge. The challenge offers $50,000 in seed funding to help launch two innovative media and tech startups. Finalists will pitch their ideas at the We Media NYC conference.

Hey big media, it’s time to invest

Posted by Chris Seper on Sep 8, 2009 in Culture, Innovation, Investment, Pitch It, We Media Miami 2009, We Media Miami 2010 | 0 comments

Acquisition is part of the solution for "big media" companies to catch up in the era of new media. But they need to go further, including more investments in early-stage ventures.