Oct. 19, 2012 8:30 am
Incubators and accelerators will fail, and that’s OK // The Baltimore Ravens’ digital universe // Hopkins scores a $108M public health grant [Links]
90% of Incubators and Accelerators Will Fail and That’s Just Fine for America [TechCrunch]: ”By ‘failing,’ I mean they don’t return (or don’t exceed) the money that was put into them. On what basis do I make my claim? Well, the hundreds of incubators are really startups, and the oft-cited rule of thumb is that [...]
Oct. 5, 2012 10:30 am
Justice Mapping Center: NY-based reveals ‘million-dollar blocks’ of incarceration nationwide
Depicting demographic and municipal data as points on a map is a helpful way to visualize urban blight — and pockets of opportunity — in a city, as Elliot Plack has done with his map of Baltimore’s vacant houses, or as Colin Drane has done with his SpotCrime crime-mapping website. But the meaning behind seeing, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sep. 25, 2012 11:07 am
GBTC Groundwork hackathon to bring techies, activists together to ‘make sense of data’
Can data save Baltimore city? At Groundwork this weekend, that’s what the Greater Baltimore Technology Council aims to find out. Armed with a cache of data sets made available by the federal, state and Baltimore city governments, GBTC and its volunteer force of tech hackers, data analysts and community activists plan to parse through the [...]
Sep. 18, 2012 8:30 am
Tickets now available for Ignite Baltimore 11, October 18 at MICA’s Brown Center
Tickets to the eleventh installment of Ignite Baltimore are now on sale. Purchase tickets to Ignite Baltimore 11, taking place Oct. 18 at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Sep. 17, 2012 8:30 am
Baltimore Innovation Week 2012 begins: which of the inaugural 30 events will you attend? [Events]
The inaugural Baltimore Innovation Week is here. More than 20 events are taking place over the next two weeks. Check the Innovation Week calendar, or read on below to figure out which events to attend. Yes, we have the initial 25 events from the now 30+ event calendar brought to you from a horde of [...]
Sep. 10, 2012 8:30 am
Innovation Week on the horizon // GBTC board meeting // Columbia TechBreakfast [Events]
Baltimore Innovation Week: The inaugural Baltimore Innovation Week begins next week. [Full disclosure: Technically Baltimore is the organizer of the week.] Check out the week’s calendar of events, and check back here next week for a preview of several of the events. Thursday, Sept. 20 through Sunday, Sept. 30. Various locations. Baltimore city. VIEW THE CALENDAR. Greater Baltimore [...]
Sep. 6, 2012 9:30 am
GBTC On Ramp accelerator offers mentoring, advice minus the equity stake
The On Ramp accelerator program through the Greater Baltimore Technology Council offers all the benefits of a traditional accelerator minus the financial transactions—no fees to get into the program and no equity stake in your startup is exchanged for entrance into the GBTC program. “The idea is to bring in pre-funded startups … for mentoring, [...]