The Power of Us

The rise and fall of Pando Projects

Posted by on Apr 26, 2012 in Founder Chronicles, Pitch It | 1 comment

The problem was that I had run out of money.  So when I held that check, my tears were real.  I had literally put everything I had into getting Pando going, and We Media was my first big break.

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7 keys to launching your big idea

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Founder Chronicles, Pitch It | 0 comments

We Media's all-star mentors share advice to entrepreneurs working to launch new businesses.

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Lessons from a pitch (It) competition

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Founder Chronicles, Pitch It | 0 comments

I didn't win the big prize at the We Media PitchIt! competition, but I walked away with something potentially more valuable: honest and constructive feedback

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Screen + Radmatter win 2012 PitchIt! Challenge

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Features, Pitch It | 0 comments

Their bold ideas: reinvent corporate recruiting and visual media production.

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PitchIt Challenge offers $50K for digital media startups

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

Calling all media, technology and social dreamers: The 2012 We Media PitchIt Challenge is open to entries. Submit your big ideas or vote now.

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Building the prototype: Smaller, cheaper

Posted by 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.

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PitchIt ranked among world’s top startup challenges

Posted by on May 24, 2011 in Investment, News Releases & Updates, Pitch It | 0 comments

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

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A startup founder pays it forward

Posted by on Mar 9, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 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.

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Announcing the PitchIt Challenge finalists

Posted by on Mar 2, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 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.

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Call for entries: $50k for media startups

Posted by on Jan 11, 2011 in Pitch It | 1 comment

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.

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Hey big media, it’s time to invest

Posted by 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.

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Will printing drive new business to Scrapblog?

Posted by on Oct 7, 2008 in Business Models, Creativity, Design, Innovation, Technology | 0 comments

One of the loveliest social media startups I’ve run across in the last few years is Scrapblog. I say lovely because it’s well...

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12 weeks, 9 companies, 7 lessons from an incubator fund

Posted by on Aug 7, 2008 in Creativity | 0 comments

One of our partners, LaunchBox Digital, is an early-stage Internet startup incubator fund. It’s similar in structure to TechStars in...

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Failure is an option

Posted by on Aug 4, 2008 in Brands | 1 comment

Sometimes Internet startups have a business model. Sometimes they don’t – and the story typically boils down to...

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