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 Former Jamaican World Cup soccer star Chris Thomas is used to winning. But Thursday night the Cornell engineering student celebrated a different sort of victory: He and his teammates, who created a business plan for battery company Widetronix, won DFJ Gotham's second annual East Coast Venture Challenge. Now the real game begins.
Thomas and his Cornell teammates beat out 10 other startup companies from Ivy League universities, NYU and Carnegie Mellon for $250,000 in seed capital from DFJ. Their winning venture, Widetronix, is trying to make long-lasting batteries that they hope to market for use in pacemakers. Thomas and his fellow entrepreneurs used their engineering backgrounds to manufacture the devices themselves. But now this group of grad students has to turn their Ithaca, NY-based venture into a business.
The money should help: It will go toward developing a second generation prototype of the battery. But Thomas and his colleagues also have to make a few more hires, including a grown-up CEO. On the plus side: The company has already figured out that it needs to find multiple markets for the batteries, and is already making inroads with Lockheed Martin. The next goal: Raise another $5 million in a Series A, and try to get their product to market within a year.
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| Live Blogging The DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge | | Draper Fisher Jurvetson is holding its East Coast Venture Challenge, where DFJ will give away $250,000 in seed money to competing students from Ivy League schools (plus NYU) who have the best new business idea and plan. The money is disbursed when the company is incorporated. SAI contributor Nate Westheimer is live blogging the event and we'll have our own coverage when the whole thing wraps up [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-May-2008 by Silicon in General
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| PAX East coming late March 2010, venue revealed |  Filed under: Culture
Well, that was fast. After revealing that the East Coast iteration of Penny Arcade Expo is heading to Boston in 2010, we now have more specific details care of BigDownload and PA director of sales Mike Fehlauer. In [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Aug-2008 by Ross Miller in bostonbreakingnewspaxpax-ec
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| PAX Goes East In 2010 [Penny Arcade] | | Oh don't worry, West Coast. It still sounds like you're going to get your own Pacific Standard Time flavored PAX in 2010. But East Coasters are getting their own version of the event, according to Jerry "Tycho" Holkins, who broke the news of the Penny Arcade Expo's expansion ea [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Aug-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Penny Arcade Events Pax
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NEW: Exit Poll data finally coming in. Read latest here .
EARLIER: It's 2:30 in the afternoon on the east coast, and the polls have now been open [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Nov-2008 by Silicon in General
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Sony Trains Future Engineers With PlayStation-edu [Learning Is Fun] | | Sony is always on the prowl for engineers and programmers with a familiarity with their hardware, but they haven't exactly made it easy to get your hands on a development kit in the past. That all changes now as SCEA introduces the PlayStation-edu program, which focuses on familiarizing you engineers and [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in NewsPlaystation-eduPs2PSPSceaSony
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