By Kathy Canavan Chris Cicero’s day job is in IT, but he moonlights with Batman and Deadpool. The lanky 29-year-old entrepreneur is prepping to present his third annual comic convention at the Doubletree Hotel on U.S. 202 in November. Thy Geekdom Con II drew 800 fans to the Crowne Plaza in Claymont last year. Billed…
So you are thinking of starting your own business. Congratulations. It’s a big step that can be very rewarding and hopefully profitable, but it requires planning and organization. Many would-be entrepreneurs are experts at their chosen profession, but do not know how to even begin to put together a solid and scalable IT infrastructure. In light…
The objective of ECONOMIC INSIGHTS is explain latest economic data and what it means for Delaware businesses. What’s happening? According to census data on business dynamics, the number of business establishments entering Delaware’s economy as a percent of total establishments has fallen from 16.3 percent in 1987 to 10.1 percent in 2013, the last year…
By Kathy Canavan Damon Carson says he has the most interesting in-box in the world. A recent e-mail: Somebody wanted to sell him 5 million brand new hazmat suits leftover from the BP oil spill. He bought them. Carson’s business — Repurposed Materials — is sort of an industrial Pinterest. He emails a newsletter of…
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…
