So you’ve been talking to someone on a dating site, either through email, text messages, or even on the phone, and you feel a connection. Well now it’s time to meet in person, and if you are a guy, you have to pick a place to meet, drive there, pay for gas and parking, then […]

Let me start off by saying I love Philadelphia. I was born and raised in this unique city and have spent the better part of my years here. I also spend a lot of my free time volunteering my skills to the tech community to help spread awareness for countless startups. This includes filming events, […]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told that the hardest part about raising money is convincing a lead investor to give you a term sheet (and sign it). Ironically, it’s usually an investor who tells me this. Well I’d love to go back to all of those investors and tell them “Look, […]

Entrepreneurs from the region gathered together this Tuesday, September 16th to pitch their companies for guidance and coaching in front of Steve Bowmanthe “Pitch doctor” from Biz Clarity. Leading the event was VC David Freschman, managing principal of Innovation Capital Advisors. “These twelve companies are the cream of the crop when it comes early stage […]

People think that once you raise funding for your business, that everything gets so much easier with money. That is the furthest from the truth and here are three reasons why: 1. Once investors fund your company, you will have to produce big results. 2. You will have a lot more responsibility and will need […]

This article was published in the Summer 2014 edition of The Hacker Quarterly – 2600 In 1984, I was but eight years old, but I can vividly recollect playing games on a Commodore 64 computer, or creating simple programs, as well as my parents using it for more important functions. Then my father sold this […]