Tory Burch Kicks Off New Initiative to Empower Women

This week, Tory Burch, a well-known entrepreneur and fashion designer who grew up in Valley Forge, was back in town to promote her Elizabeth Street Capital initiative. Elizabeth Street Capital, named for the street in New York City where Burch’s first boutique launched, is a new joint program between the 6-year-old Tory Burch Foundation and […]

No One’s Going to Steal Your Idea

May 5, 2014 in Technical.ly Philly At Tech Talk, a women in entrepreneurship roundtable held at the Pyramid Club during Philly Tech Week last month, there were lessons in building better businesses for any founder. The insight was shared by Robin Hood Ventures angel investor Ellen Weber, National Constitution Center digital lead Kathleen Cohen, mobile […]

Engineering Entrepreneurship at Penn: now in its 13th year, entrepreneurship program for engineers expands faculty to accommodate demand

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Oct. 11, 2012 as featured in Technical.ly Philly Since 1993, Penn’s Engineering School has offered an Engineering Entrepreneurship program in hopes of showing engineering students the practical applications of what they’re building in the lab. Three thousand students – both undergraduate and masters – have gone through the program, started by professor Tom Cassel, says associate […]

Look at the Fish

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How Jeffrey Babin teaches Students to Look at the Fish Babin, a former entrepreneur and musician who teaches the Engineering Entrepreneurship program at Penn, talks with us about teaching, the principles of entrepreneurship, and why Facebook is really, really over. Jeffrey Babin used to be a musician. It was the first work he did after he […]