The Delaware Economic Development Office (DEDO) announced its selection of three Delaware entrepreneurs in the first round of the DEDO partnership with One Million by One Million (1M/1M). 1M/1M is a global virtual accelerator that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs to reach $1 million each in annual revenue and beyond, in a plan to…
By Christi Milligan Vijaya Rao longed for a tool that could schedule delivery of groceries and household necessities to her door, so free time for the corporate executive would be … free. So in 2014, she left the corporate world and launched one. The result was DeliveryCircle, an e-commerce service that connects people who provide…
It all began in 2009 when I invited some business owners to breakfast. Nothing fancy, just some baked oatmeal and coffee, a whiteboard and some handouts. We spent a couple of hours together discussing small business marketing strategies. Entrepreneurs, creatives and hopefuls — all were welcome. I hadn’t thought it all the way through. All…
There’s a storm brewing in the business community. It’s building around technology, and Delaware just may be in the forefront. Delaware Innovation Week held last week, encompassed 20-plus events across Wilmington and New Castle County. It brought together entrepreneurs, technologists, civic leaders and investors. Two years ago, at the Economic Development Council luncheon, presented by the…
Dover, Del. – Downtown Delaware and the Delaware Economic Development Office (DEDO) have launched Project Pop-Up 2015. Now in its fourth year, entrepreneurs can apply to become the recipient of three months of rent-free commercial space during the holiday season and the assistance of a business advisor from the move-in phase, to the grand opening…
CanSurround, a Wilmington-based startup that has created a technology enabled solution that reduces distress and creates emotional well being for people living with cancer, won top honors last month at the Doctors 2.0 & You conference on the campus of Cité Universitaire Internationale in Paris. CanSurround was one of seven digital health start-up finalists competing…
By Kathy Canavan After Katey Evans and Jo Ellen Algier spent months planning a unique business called The Frozen Farmer, a banker told them the late restaurateur Matt Haley had the exact same idea before he died in a motorcycle collision in Nepal last August. “She said if we weren’t going to act on this,…
By Matt Sullivan Special to Delaware Business Times The Delaware Economic Summit will welcome serial entrepreneur Jen Groover as the keynote speaker for the summit on Wednesday, April 23. Groover skyrocketed into entrepreneurial success with the creation of the Butler Bag, a compartmentalized handbag. From there, she developed a lifestyle brand that has sold products…
By Kathy Canavan While only 6 percent of the U.S. population are military veterans, they own 13.5 percent of all small businesses. There are 3 million veteran-owned businesses in the U.S., so many that they have their own magazine — “Vetrepreneur.” Go Daddy owner Bob Parsons was a Marine and Nike owner Phil Knight is…
