(Alexa Grabelle W’23)
Introduction
With the proliferation of digital platforms which enable content creation, an increasing number of people are finding opportunities to monetize their passions and grow fanbases, facilitating the growth of the passion economy. The concept of the passion economy is delineated in Adam Davidson’s book The Passion…
The Data Behind the Development in the Field
By Julia Taitz (Wharton, ‘19)
For the past six years, Adam Grant and Cade Massey have expanded the Wharton People Analytics Conference. The two-day event in Philadelphia sheds light onto the emerging field of people analytics and the innovators who are pushing…
The grant-making arm of the Weiss Tech House, the WeissFund offers non-dilutive financial resources to compelling, motivated start-ups teams with at least one current Penn student. (We are not WeissLabs, a group of colleagues at the Weiss Tech House who operate an incubator for earlier-stage teams.)
Coffee Chats:
Our process…
By: Finella Tutelman (Wharton, ‘22)
Starting with calisthenic routines and vibrating belt machines, the personal fitness industry has been in a state of constant evolution and revival over the course of the last 50 years. …
By: Spencer Weiss (M&T ‘20)
Podcasting is a tiny industry. In 2018, the US podcast advertising revenue totaled $400 million, which is 0.43% of the $94 billion spent on US internet advertising the same year. However, since the sorry state of the current audio techology landscape diminishes the financials, the…
By: Dan Cahana (Wharton, ‘19)
Over the past decade, the lean startup movement has grown into both a guide for student founders and a cornerstone of the entrepreneurship curriculum at many business schools, including Wharton. The lean methodology is rather simple — it pushes startups to iterate quickly by building…
By: Soham Dharmadhikary (M&T, ‘21)
Nvidia’s recent stock price seems to indicate that the love investors have long had for it and its peers is coming to an end. …
By: Maxwell Abram (SAS ‘19)
For a few hundred dollars, one can depart NYC and arrive in Hong Kong sixteen hours later. This is an impressive feat enabled primarily by private sector innovation. Inter- and intra-regional travel in America is far more taxing and challenging than it should be —…
By: Finella Tutelman (Wharton, ‘22)
There is a tendency in technology to take any successful business and view it as a universal model. All of the commentators and tech media seem to go on an obsessive hunt across every sector and decide that this must apply everywhere. For example, many…
Millennials’ need for quality experience, efficiency, and mental care provides an opportunity for the digital health market
By: Lavanya Kanneganti (LSM ’21)
In 2018, digital health value propositions made up 3 of the top 6 most funded propositions in the healthcare space following categories like personalized medicine, diagnostics, and drug…
Funding & supporting student entrepreneurship @ UPenn. Backed by @WeissTechHouse. http://weissfund.weisstech.upenn.edu/
