Wharton to hold workshop on funding and scaling startups

wharton-logo The Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, led by the Wharton School’s most prominent professors is holding a workshop in San Francisco in March on funding and scaling startups.

This no-cost, one-day program will feature Wharton professor Gad Allon and adjunct professor David Wessels on “Scaling Firm Operations and How Firms Use Social Media to Leverage Their Best Customers” and “Venture Capital and Firm Valuation,” respectively.

The program will be held March 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The registration deadline is Feb. 26.

The Seminar will take place at Wharton San Francisco, 2 Harrison Street, sixth floor. To register, visit the seminar application.

Applications are open to those who are employed or freelance full-time as a print, broadcast or online business journalists for legitimate media companies.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.