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Dec. 6, 2012 9:30 am
Eli the Computer Guy: local bomb thrower or savvy critic of Baltimore’s startup scene?
Eli Etherton photo from the CBT Nuggets blog. Eli Etherton — the self-styled “Computer Guy” whose YouTube videos and website are meant to teach “people how we get paid” — has one message for Baltimore’s tech community. “We don’t push ourselves … and if they don’t start treating this like a business, then we don’t have [...]
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Nov. 1, 2012 9:00 am
Given.to: After three months, presenting at NewME Accelerator Demo Day today
McKeever Conwell and his co-founders, Sam Henry and Michael Washington, will present 12 weeks of work when they present their company, Given.to, at NewME Accelerator‘s Demo Day today. “I’m very excited and nervous at the same time,” said Conwell in an e-mail. “We are hoping to entice investors into wanting to know more about Given.to [...]
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Sep. 24, 2012 9:30 am
AccelerateBaltimore back for a second year, with funding for up to six companies
AccelerateBaltimore, Charm City’s homegrown accelerator program — as well as the city’s first business accelerator — is back for a second year, announced the Emerging Technology Center on Friday. The application period for the accelerator program opens in October, and up to six companies will be admitted and take up residency in the ETC in February, according [...]
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Aug. 24, 2012 10:15 am
NoBadGift.com in second week at NewME Accelerator, releases iPhone app
It’s the second week for McKeever Conwell and NoBadGift.com at the NewME Accelerator in San Francisco, and he’s “definitely enjoying it.” “It’s a little weird, though, living in a house with seven other people with one bathroom,” says Conwell.
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Jul. 24, 2012 9:30 am
NoBadGift.com will keep Baltimore as its home even after SF accelerator [Q&A]
NoBadGift.com co-founder and self-proclaimed hustler McKeever Conwell heads to San Francisco in August to begin his 12-week tenure at the NewME Accelerator. Conwell and his two partners, Sam Henry and Michael Washington, have had a whirlwind last six months, as Technically Baltimore reported this morning. But will NoBadGift.com heading westward be a story of loss [...]
Jul. 24, 2012 8:30 am
NoBadGift.com: Never give a poorly chosen present again with crowdfunding site
It was 11 p.m. on July 14 when McKeever Conwell got the e-mail: NoBadGift.com was accepted into the NewME Accelerator, founded last year specifically for minority-owned startups. Two days later, on Monday, Conwell, 26, and his compatriots, Michael Washington and Sam Henry, both 25, accepted and were officially headed to San Francisco as one of [...]