business
Mar. 5, 2013 10:00 am
Four layers needed to build a robust startup ecosystem: Greg Cangialosi [VIDEO]
Four “layers” are needed for a city to have a successful startup ecosystem, said Greg Cangialosi, managing member of the Baltimore Angels investing group, during a Tech Cocktail event in Las Vegas in December.
creative
Feb. 25, 2013 8:30 am
Help plan the second annual Baltimore Innovation Week, scheduled for Sept. 2013 [Events]
An events-heavy week this week begins tonight with the EdTech Meetup at the Digital Harbor Tech Center in Federal Hill, where students will be displaying several online publications now in the works. The second installment of the revived Refresh Baltimore series takes place Tuesday night. On Wednesday, another edition of TechBreakfast. After that, head down to the Emerging Technology Center [...]
creative
Feb. 7, 2013 9:30 am
Help Plan Baltimore Innovation Week 2013 [EVENT]
We’re already gearing up for the second annual Baltimore Innovation Week in September, and we want you to help plan it! Come Thursday Feb. 28 evening in Federal Hill for a fun, interactive brainstorming event to think big for next fall’s chance to show off Baltimore. RSVP here.
civic
Dec. 28, 2012 9:30 am
Baltimore Tech in 2012: Technically Baltimore’s 15 takeaways from this last year
Relatively speaking, Baltimore’s early-stage technology community has been busy in 2012. Call it hype. Call it cheerleading. Call it noise. But whatever the name, it’s plain that Baltimore city’s tech ecosystem is growing at a clip previously unseen. Admittedly, there’s progress yet to be made, as Baltimore searches for its identity among other tech startup cities in the [...]
creative
Oct. 10, 2012 11:00 am
Baltimore Innovation 2012 inaugural wrap up: 30+ events, 25+ partners, 1500+ attendees
We’re still uncovering from closing out September with the inaugural Baltimore Innovation Week, but we wanted to offer some closure. More than 30 events, 25 partners and 1,500 attendees over 10 days. The point? Bring various existing technology and innovation communities into a single conversation and start what could grow into one of the region’s [...]
uncategorized
Oct. 3, 2012 8:30 am
Vince Talbert at Oct. Startup Grind // TowsonGlobal Incubator to double in size // Founder Susan Magsamen talks Curiosityville [Startup Roundup]
This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. Startup Grind returns for its second installment on Oct. 30 at Loyola University Maryland. Tickets are on sale now. October’s interviewee is Vince Talbert, the co-founder of BillMeLater, which was acquired by eBay in 2008. Talbert now works [...]
uncategorized
Oct. 1, 2012 11:00 am
Groundwork civic hackathon produces projects on city contracts, homicides, speed cameras [VIDEO]
Big data flexed its muscles this weekend at Groundwork, the civic hackathon hosted by the Greater Baltimore Technology Council that called on participants to delve into spreadsheets and tables of numbers to inform potential solutions to urban issues. More than 120 hackers and community leaders, as well as a team from Maryland StateStat, gathered over [...]
Oct. 1, 2012 10:36 am
CrowdStitch, pop-up social network for events, releases beta app with a few glitches
Over beers, wine and an ambitious spread that included someone’s favorite hors d’oeuvres, pigs in a blanket, founder Mark Howells unveiled the beta version of his CrowdStitch app at a release party at the Fitzgerald on Saturday night. CrowdStitch, which Howells describes as a “Twitter hashtag on steroids,” creates a pop-up social network for attendees [...]
uncategorized
Sep. 28, 2012 10:00 am
NewsUp launches trivia feature, smart phone app to be released by year’s end
NewsUp revealed yet another reason to slog through Thomas Friedman columns when it took the training wheels off its trivia feature last night at Alonso’s in Roland Park. Users of the news-reading app, which assigns points to people based on the number of news articles they read and share with friends, can now earn more [...]
uncategorized
Sep. 28, 2012 9:30 am
Baltimore TechBreakfast: Procurely, NewsUp among September’s presenters
Another month, another installment of Baltimore TechBreakfast. (Presentations! Questions! Microphones! Free bagels!) Among September’s presenters were Justin Smith, the founder and CEO of Procurely, which Technically Baltimore covered in July. Also presenting were the respective teams behind NewsUp and Easy WebContent Presenter (read more here), both of which held events Thursday night for Baltimore Innovation Week.
