ScaleWell in Crain’s!
Posted in News | February 16th, 2010
Hot off the heels of the first successful funding cycle, ScaleWell founders Sean Corbett and Andy Angelos got some nice press in Crain’s. You can read the article here.
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First ScaleWell winner announced
Posted in News | February 11th, 2010
ScaleWell, a project organized by Jelly members Sean Corbett, Andy Angelos and Ziad Hussain, had their launch party last night and announced the first winner of the project. Scalewell provides grants of up to $1000 to ventures looking for early seed capital.
The first round had 42 submissions from entrepreneurs, which were narrowed down to five finalists, including Jelly member Jake Lumetta’s WinkVid. The winner ended up being Unatronics, a manufacturer of minimalist, retro electronic musical instruments, founded by Michael Una. Congrats to Michael, and to the ScaleWell team on a successful launch!
WinkVid Beta Event February 21st
Posted in Projects | February 10th, 2010
Jelly member Jake Lumetta’s new startup WinkVid is hosting a beta event on February 21st. WinkVid is a live-video speed dating site where you meet up to 20 other singles in one night. Their first “WinkUp” starts on Feb 21st at 8PM CST. It’s completely free to participate, and should be a lot of fun.
You can register for the event at http://winkvid.com/beta. Remember that you’ll need to have a webcam in order to participate. If you have any questions, feel free to email Jake.
Jelly Happy Hour this Friday at Clark Street Ale House!
Posted in Events | February 9th, 2010
The Jelly Happy Hour is getting started once again. This Friday, February 12th, join the Jelly clan at Clark Street Ale House for great beer and some great conversation. The fun starts at 6:00pm. Hope to see you there!
Android phone fundraiser for Haiti tomorrow night
Posted in Events | January 26th, 2010
Jelly friend and Barcamp Chicago founder Jason Rexelius is heading down to Haiti to support relief efforts there. Along with Todd Huffman, they will be working to support inSTEDD.org as well as to deploy a project that will allow Haitians to use commodity cell phone technology to gather information and intelligence for relief agencies on the ground as well as the press abroad.
The project will allow ordinary Haitians to report on road blockages, gang activities, looting, distribution of supplies and availability of food and water. This information will be fed directly into the information systems of the big relief organizations to enable them to direct their efforts.
They are raising $10,000 and gather as many Android-based smartphones (with camera and GPS capability) as possible. Toward that end, Jason and Todd are hosting a fundraising event on Wednesday, Jan 27th from 5:30-7:30PM at English Bar & Restaurant in River North.
They will have the 2nd floor and Jason will talk in more detail about what they’re doing and collect and contributions and donations – cash, checks, phones, etc. All donations over $250 are tax-deductible since InSTEDD is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
You can also provide donations via 2 other methods:
- Via PayPal/GoogleCheckout at http://instedd.org/donate There is no way to specify the project on this page and so email Jason@hostedlabs.com the name of the donating entity and the amount so those funds are earmarked for this project.
- Via check, payable to:
inSTEDD
480 S. California Ave, Suite 104
Palo Alto, CA 94306Add on the comment of check “TODD-JASON-HAITI” and email jason@hostedlabs.com so he can tell them how much to expect.