Nov. 19, 2012 10:00 am
Baltimore visits Philadelphia: Geeks on a Train
More than a dozen Baltimore technologists visited Philadelphia Friday to take in two of that city’s technology clusters. See coverage of the day here from our sister site Technically Philly, which organized the day there, and partnered with GBTC and us to help rally the crowd. It was a deeper followup to Geeks on a [...]
Nov. 2, 2012 11:22 am
Tech Night: gb.tc’s 2012 annual celebration of tech community draws more than 400, mayor to Lexington Market [VIDEO]
The view from the Startup Arena in the second floor atrium of Lexington Market at Tech Night. Update 11/2/12 6:28 p.m.: Clarified information on Thursday’s attendance at Tech Night compared to previous years. More than 400 people from Baltimore’s tech community packed the atrium at Lexington Market for Thursday’s Tech Night, including Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake—the [...]
Nov. 1, 2012 10:00 am
GB.TC hosts first Baltimore Tech Crawl, Mayor Rawlings-Blake to attend annual Tech Night
Before Tech Night kicks off at Lexington Market at 7 tonight, gb.tc will hold the first annual Tech Crawl to “see Baltimore tech in action,” writes Jason Hardebeck. Crawlers will make four stops at the: Bromo Seltzer Tower clockworks Baltimore Police’s CitiWatch control center Catholic Relief Services’ international crisis situation room MTA’s nerve center E-mail [...]
Oct. 26, 2012 8:30 am
Tech Night at Lexington Market is ‘uniquely Baltimore’ // Under Armour Q3 profits up 25% // More than 900 buses cited for speeding in school zones [Links]
Get inside an investor’s head [resultsjunkies]: “Instead of keeping these conversations behind closed doors, I’m going to give each of you full access by starting an ‘Ask the VC’ series here.” City endorses $100,000 in state funds for repairs of Station North’s Load of Fun building [Baltimore Brew]: “The $100,000 is to cover ‘the installation [...]
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. 7, 2012 10:30 am
Ed Mullin: Robotics shows kids that “This could get me a job someday at NASA”
Ed Mullin is the self-proclaimed robot guy in the [Baltimore Tech] Facebook group. Had you attended the Robotics Olympiad in August, you might’ve seen Mullin strolling around. About 12 years ago, Mullin was the CTO and second employee for Jason Hardebeck’s WhoGlue during its early days—long before the startup, which enabled membership organizations to create [...]
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, [...]
Aug. 27, 2012 10:00 am
unWIREd: GBTC unconference features group brainstorming on making Baltimore better
Imagine a community-run business school in the Barclay neighborhood off North Avenue, a place open only to neighborhood residents and staffed with volunteer teachers and techies. What about a mobile app that will organize all Baltimore’s social service providers’ information in one directory? These were just some of the ideas formed during the first-ever unWIREd [...]
Aug. 20, 2012 8:30 am
Common Curriculum launches with an open bar // Cowork at Capital Studios // GBTC hosts UnWIREd at Johns Hopkins [Events]
Webby Hour: It’s no Thirsty Thursday, but the meeting of College Web Designers and Developers on Wednesday is probably a better use of your time (and money, considering the event is held at beer emporium Max’s Taphouse). The group hasn’t met in awhile, so Wednesday’s meeting will be a time to come up with ideas [...]
Aug. 17, 2012 10:30 am
Jason Hardebeck and GBTC look to reframe problems as opportunities with UnWIREd [Q&A]
It was in December that Jason Hardebeck—Naval Academy graduate, Baltimorean since 1995 and the founder of WhoGlue, which he sold to Facebook last fall for an undisclosed amount—took the reins as head honcho at the Greater Baltimore Technology Council. Since then, he has been moving at a hare’s pace, scrubbing the council’s Canton office, planning [...]