Featured in the Philadelphia City Paper, VIP company Coup de Taco, a new food truck, has received praise for offering foods around the world in the simple form of a taco. MORE

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

Tal Raviv, VIP member and founder of DropCard, is featured in an article highlighting entrepreneurs still in college. He is further quoted throughout the article about his entrepreneurship journey and about DropCard, an e-business card that lets users send more contact information than is commonly found on a business card. MORE

NIR Diagnostics, winner of the Wharton Business Plan Competition Michelson grand prize, discusses the development of their device InfraVue. MORE

NIR Diagnostics, one of eight competing groups during the Venture Finals of the Wharton Business Plan Competition, came away with the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award as TechnicallyPhilly gives a play-by-play account. 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

The Philadelphia Inquirer highlights Wharton VIP Stealth Rowing. Along with Stealth Rowing’s PennVention win, the article notes founder Daniel Harbuck won a Wharton Venture Award last year and is among the Great Eight Wharton Business Plan Competition finalists. MORE

StealthRowing, a VIP company that designs and makes specialized training equipment that allows rowers to get the effect of rowing on the water while training indoors, took the top prize at PennVention, winning $5,000. 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

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