{"id":4731,"date":"2013-04-29T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2018-11-18T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:43:13","slug":"news-for-the-week-of-april-29-cynthia-schames-of-abbeypost-announces-sponsorship-of-the-big-fat-flea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/news-for-the-week-of-april-29-cynthia-schames-of-abbeypost-announces-sponsorship-of-the-big-fat-flea\/","title":{"rendered":"News for the Week of April 29: Meghan Conroy of Captureproof Accepted into TechStars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Check out\u00a0<a title=\"Founders Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foundersnetwork.com\/\">Founders Network<\/a>\u00a0members making headlines in this week&#8217;s member news roundup. Founders Network offers peer mentorship for over 300 tech startup founders. To learn more about FN, please visit www.foundersnetwork.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4640\" src=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Schames,\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140-128x128.jpg 128w, https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1b40140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Cynthia Schames\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abbeypost.com\/\">AbbeyPost<\/a>\u00a0was really excited to announce their sponsorship of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=159322934234548&amp;id=131011523732356\">Big Fat Flea<\/a>\u00a0plus-sized clothing event that&#8217;s coming up in New York City on June 9, 2013. AbbeyPost is an exquisite website that&#8217;s dedicated to allowing plus-sized women the opportunity to buy and sell fashionable clothes to other women. The designs are top-of-the-line, and the prices are great!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MeghanConroy.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3144\" src=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MeghanConroy-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"MeghanConroy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MeghanConroy-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MeghanConroy.jpeg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re excited to celebrate with Meghan Conroy of\u00a0Captureproof\u00a0for being featured in an article on\u00a0CNNMoney. Captureproof is currently in beta, however, they have been chosen as one of ten startups that are a part of TechStar Chicago. As a result, they will be granted access to a national mentoring network as well as investors from all over the country. This opportunity will provide many resources Captureproof needs to move on to the next level in business. Captureproof is an innovative medical tool that allows users to upload photos of themselves or others for the purpose of keeping track of their progress. It&#8217;s also useful for physicians as a way to watch the progression of an illness for their patients.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/JoshKalven.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3529\" src=\"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/JoshKalven-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Josh Kalven, Founder and CEO of Newsbound\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/JoshKalven-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/JoshKalven.jpeg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to Josh Kalven of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsbound.com\/\">Newsbound<\/a>\u00a0for having their unique stacks featured in an article by James Allworth called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wSdLWXpHzA\">How Corruption is Strangling U.S. Innovation<\/a>\u00a0in the Harvard Business Review. Newsbound is in the business of making complex topics more understandable by breaking down information into slides that include facts, statistics, graphics and more. Readers are entertained by the design, and informed in a way that text alone can never accomplish.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The original version of this post was created by the writers at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmutt.com\/\">BlogMutt<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To apply to become a part of Founders Network,\u00a0contact us\u00a0today!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out\u00a0Founders Network\u00a0members making headlines in this week&#8217;s member news roundup. Founders Network offers peer mentorship for over 300 tech startup founders. To learn more about FN, please visit www.foundersnetwork.com. &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/news-for-the-week-of-april-29-cynthia-schames-of-abbeypost-announces-sponsorship-of-the-big-fat-flea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7292,7169],"tags":[7988,90,8059,8253],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founders-community","category-women-entrepreneurs","tag-founders-community","tag-tech-founders","tag-women-entrepreneurs","tag-women-in-business"],"acf":[],"featured_image_data":{"src":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B-Roll.00_01_37_04.Still009.jpg","alt":"B-Roll.00_01_37_04.Still009","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}