Startup Leaders’ Blake Jennelle on Philly’s Fast Company feature

In an informal partnership with Philadelphia magazine‘s new Philly Post daily news blog, Technically Philly will be offering our insight on Philadelphia technology to a broader audience of tech-interested individuals every Tuesday. As is true of so much of our effort, this is yet another opportunity to voice the triumphs and concerns of the community to a broader audience in the city and beyond.
Silicon Valley is so last decade.
In January, business innovation magazine Fast Company ran a five-part series exploring emerging entrepreneurial technology hubs around the country. As the first cities in the series were published online, Boulder, Colorado and New York City, Blake Jennelle was pinging his network, wondering who’d been contacted by the magazine to represent Philly.
Jennelle, who keeps in close touch with hundreds of entrepreneurs in the region, is likely to have come across a lead. As far as he could tell, Philly was being counted out.
Let’s change that, he soon penned on his blog, a catalog of ruminations about Philadelphia startup scene, which boasts a healthy local following. How would you answer the question, he asked his readers, Why start a company in Philly?
For the full story, read on at Philadelphia magazine’s Philly Post.