Eleven University of Pennsylvania students pitched their media startup ideas at an Entrepreneurial Journalism Demo Night held in the Kelly Writers House last week. I was there by invitation of the class’s professor Sam Apple, whose reporting background stems from a stint experimenting with launching theFasterTimes.com. The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, covered the pitch [...]

In the next 20 years, the United States and the broader global economy will either dramatically rethink its employment structure or a history-altering societal change will take place. Of course, unemployment numbers are gamed by those who give up on looking for jobs, but the idea here is that it’s hard to understand why anyone [...]

During presentations, we at Technically Media have talked about our failures. We do a lot of speaking (me too), so we’ve also touched on the power of working in threes. But I think we haven’t touched on what I think is our most innovative reason for sticking together for more than two years: our meeting [...]

The best way to get things done is to rule authoritatively. Demand and conquer. The best way to save money is to cut back, cut back, cut back. Always do more with less. You can create a trim, powerful, successful, lean and mean and impactful organization. But what happens when no one wants to work [...]

When I am unsure about something, I tend to over-indulge in the research. So, when my two colleagues and I decided that, despite our size, we thought it was worth the cost of hiring a payroll services company to withhold taxes for Technically Media from the very start, I knew I’d be indulging. In the [...]

I covered the Demo Day from DreamIt Ventures, a University City tech incubator, for Technically Philly last month. Bright and passionate 20-somethings pleaded the case for their products, eager for funding to follow the $25,000 and three months of mentoring they received at DreamIt.  It was an exacting event. It was also interesting to think [...]