Feb. 26, 2013 9:30 am
Betamore begins to offer tech and design classes, but some question the price tag
Are community resources beholden to a level of access associated with free events? Or is there value in higher-price events with presumably higher value? That’s a question currently bubbling over the rollout of paid education classes that are a part of the revenue plans for new Federal Hill hybrid incubator-coworking Betamore.
Dec. 26, 2012 10:30 am
Pretending Baltimore is a startup hotbed ‘isn’t going to make us magically awesome’
Talk of tech startup hubs often doesn’t include any mention of Baltimore, which seems to relish playing scrappy underdog to its bigger cousins, Washington, D.C., and New York City. There’s some reason for this. Ask someone about major “wins” inside this city’s startup ecosystem, and they may cite AOL’s acquiring Advertising.com and Millennial Media’s IPO [...]
Dec. 20, 2012 9:30 am
Baltimore as tech startup hub: ‘the perception is anything but strong due to ignorance’
On Quora, Betamore co-founder (and partner with Technically Baltimore) Mike Brenner has a response to a months-old thread asking, “How is Baltimore, MD, perceived by people in Tech Startup hotbed areas?” Here’s a paragraph from Brenner’s response: The reason the perception is anything but strong is simply due to ignorance. SV, NYC, Boston, Austin, Boulder [...]
Dec. 3, 2012 10:00 am
Betamore: co-founders unveil ‘urban campus’ for coworking, tech education at launch party [PHOTOS]
Betamore co-founders, from left: Mike Brenner, Sean Lane and Greg Cangialosi Betamore. It lives. On the fourth and top floor of the 1111 Light Street building in Federal Hill, more than 150 people from Baltimore’s tech community gathered Friday night to celebrate the launch of the Betamore coworking and incubator space, what co-founder Mike Brenner [...]
Nov. 15, 2012 10:00 am
Digit All Systems: Street Geeks to equip students for some of 14M cloud computing jobs coming by 2015
Digit All Systems founder, Lance Lucas. In the third and final part of a series about Digit All Systems, Technically Baltimore reports on Digit All’s projects for 2013, including a tech mentorship program and a new cloud computing curriculum. Click here to read part one about Digit All Systems’ founder, Lance Lucas. To read part two, [...]
Oct. 22, 2012 8:30 am
EdTech Meetup at Digital Harbor Foundation // Tech Cocktail’s Baltimore Showcase // Find a co-founder at the ETC [Events]
This week, join fellow education technology enthusiasts for a Monday meeting at Digital Harbor Foundation. Head to Mother’s in Federal Hill for the Tech Cocktail Baltimore Showcase of startups (and a cocktail or two). Looking for a co-founder? Travel to the Emerging Technology Center on Wednesday evening for the Co-Founders Wanted Meetup, and then take your [...]
Oct. 1, 2012 12:00 pm
TeamPassword emerges as Startup Weekend winner, 15 total startup teams formed
Fifty-four hours total over one weekend. Fifteen teams. Almost three hours’ worth of presentations. One weary reporter with a case of carpal tunnel in his right hand. Countless cans of Red Bull. Nearly 100 people gathered on the ground floor of AOL/Advertising.com on Sunday night to listen to pitches from just-born startup companies, many formed [...]
Sep. 19, 2012 10:30 am
SparkTruck, fablab on wheels from Stanford University, comes to Baltimore Wednesday
Photo courtesy of SparkTruck. SparkTruck arrived in Baltimore on Tuesday with stops at Patterson Park Public Charter School and Maryland Institute College of Art. On Wednesday, the truck rolls through Liberty Elementary School starting at 10 a.m. By the end of its national tour in October, it will have driven 14,000 miles visiting schools and [...]
Sep. 19, 2012 9:30 am
Startup Weekend #hashtag battle: Philly and Baltimore to hold simultaneous Startup Weekend events, #BaltSW needs help
We’ll forgive the Philadelphia Eagles for their one-point victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. Besides, we all know it’s the fault of the B-squad referees the NFL is trotting out onto football fields these days. We know what the real intercity battle is going to be. A week from Friday, to close out Baltimore [...]
Sep. 5, 2012 9:30 am
Betamore incubator now opening early October, says co-founder Mike Brenner
Betamore, the new Federal Hill coworking and community education space slated to open in late September, will now open Oct. 2, said co-founder Mike Brenner at Tuesday night’s conversation on coworking at the Windup Space in Station North. The space had been planned to be open this month, but construction delays have set it back, he [...]