Wharton is included in an article entitled, “With Jobs Scant, MBAs Consider Startups” which highlights the Wharton Venture Award. Adam Erlebacher, who was  member of  the Wharton Venture Initiation Program with his company PlaceVine, is profiled too. MORE

Past VIP member DocASAP recently appeared in Business Week Small Biz’s cover story this month.  CEO Puneet Maheshwari is interviewed along with alum and WEP board member Josh Kopelman.  Also mentioned are insights from Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities, by Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich. MORE

BusinessWeek named their 2009 finalists for the Top 25 U.S. Entrepreneurs Under 25 and among the top was VIP alumni company Invite Media, an online advertising buying platform. With $2.5 million in venture capital from First Round Capital and Genacast, and close to landing an additional $6 million from a Sand Hill Road firm, Invite Media expects to turn profitable by the first quarter of 2010. MORE

In a Daily Pennsylvanian article discussing alternative employment after graduation, such as launching a company or working for a family business, Wharton and College alum Amit Friedlander is featured for his experience working for family business MoveRight Consulting. MORE

Startup Mint.com, recently purchased by Intuit, owes much to alumni company First Round Capital. Named by BusinessWeek as a “new breed of high-risk, early-stage venture capitalist”, First Round Capital opted to back the fledgling company at a time when other VCs demurred. MORE

Wharton MBA graduate Jose Villa, CEO of full-service advertising agency Sensis, is ranked no. 368 in Inc.com’s top 500 fastest-growing private companies in the US. Sensis also ranks among the top 10 Latino and Hispanic-run companies. MORE

U.S.1, Princeton’s Business & Entertainment Newspaper, has highlighted the healthy typing practive MoveRight Consulting co-founded by Wharton alum Amit Friedlander. MORE

Whartpn PhD alum Scott Shane is a contributor to new NYTimes blog, “You’re the Boss: The Art of Running a Small Business.” Today, the blog featured Rita McGrath, another Wharton PhD alum, on the topic of small business health care. MORE

Sandy Khaund, Wharton graduate and entrepreneur, relates his experience with the problems of health care today in an article supporting the arguement that universal health care could boost the economy. MORE 

In a recent article discussing Brazil’s potential as venture capital’s next hotbed, MBA alum Marcus Regueira, a founding partner of Brazilian VC film FIR Capital Partners, was quoted about the launch of a $170 million fund. MORE

Founded by alumni Brian Lipstein and Alex Avendano, the custom-fit suit tailoring and image consulting company, Henry A. Davidsen, Master Tailors and Image Consultants, is featured in Amtrak Arrive Magazine (pg. 20). MORE

Alumni venture capital firm First Round Capital was featured in a BusinessWeek article discussing “super angels” and seed-stage investing and is described as having become the country’s most active seed-stage investor. MORE

Wharton Alumni couple discuss the changes they were forced to make to manage growth for their company Petplan Pet Insurance, an insurance company that insures tens of thousands of pets across the country. MORE

Wharton and VIP alum Christopher Stanchak, founder of TicketLeap, Inc. was named amongst the top 40 Under 40 of the region’s most accomplished young professionals. MORE

Alex Mittal, founder of Innova Materials, and Felipe Vergara, co-founder of Lumni, were both named among America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. MORE

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Wharton MBA & VIP alum, Marco Lentini was “selected as one of twelve small business owners from across the country to participate in a round table discussion with President Obama regarding his Small Business Plan.” MORE