Vadim Telyatnikov

"Startup Corps brings real entrepreneurs into high schools to coach students on real businesses they are trying to start.

It's been a big success in the first year and we want to bring it to more schools in the fall. That's why we need your help (and donations).

I'll do whatever it takes to raise money for this amazing cause. I wish there had been a program like this when I was in high school!"

Big thanks to our 90 donors!

• $100 Arik Ben-Ari Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Blake - Awesome concept... I have tremendous faith in your ability to execute on a great idea. My firm is happy to volunteer to help the young budding entrepreneurial talent!

• $100 Scott Messer Voted for go to Geno's and order in S...

  Hasta la vista, baby!

• $100 Garrett Melby Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  I love the idea that your dare makes you a walking advertisement for the site. Can we get you to sing a ZZ Top number with the band at the MAC/ETC summer party?

  PS -- Happy to donate to StartUp Corps

• $100 Vadim Telyatnikov Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  This better include meetings & events!

• $100 Brett Topche Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  This I HAVE to see.

• $50 Boris Bogatin Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Cowboys boots, cowboy hat, and all is the true art of entrepreneurship - look forward to see you acting it out literally for the first time. Great work on driving the entrepreneurial spirit Blake!!!

• $50 Patricia Isaacson Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $50 Peyton Sherwood Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

  I've gotta see this!

• $50 James Fritchman Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  This is a great cause!

• $45 Christina Bonner Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  You are a crazy person and for that reason, I'm glad we connected. Best of luck and I hope that you are still in full regalia for the IMPACT Philadelphia launch.

• $35 Alessandro Roco Voted for go to Geno's and order in S...

  Good luck, Blake!

• $35 Arthur Jennelle Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Yea!

• $25 Shreyans Bhansali Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Love the cause.

• $25 David Gloss Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Lets get this puppy started. Two birds with one stone. Congrats Blake. Congrats Christian. Anything to get Philadelphia's budding entrepreneurs the skills and access they need to succeed is a cause I can get behind.

• $25 Kendall Schoenrock Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  Giddy up, cowboy!

• $25 Edward Riegl Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Way to go Blake!! Can't wait to see the pictures posted.

  Ed

• $25 Darlene Cavalier Voted for go to Geno's and order in S...

  I want to see the video.

• $25 Stephen Gill Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Blake,

  Love concept and the site.

  You'll have to integrate FB connect, DonorsChoose.org does it really well.

• $25 Anonymous Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Congratulations! Over the Top!

• $25 Linda Penrod Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Great program Blake!

• $25 Dave Noreen Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Good luck Blake! (ps I'll be hitting you up in December for a donation for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. ha ha)

• $25 Jay Brian Minkoff Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $25 Chris DiFonzo Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  Can't wait to see this!

• $25 Stephen Daimler Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $25 iqram magdon-ismail Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Can't wait to see this...how do we do a double dare?! :)

• $25 Anonymous Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $25 John Vairo Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $25 Chris Cera Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  When I saw this, I need it had to be Booch.

• $25 David Brussin Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Kudos to Anthony for an awesome dare... even bigger kudos to Blake for a great concept and killer execution!

• $25 Alan Miller Voted for go to Geno's and order in S...

  best of luck with the new venture..

• $25 steven Welch Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  I double dog dare you

• $25 Doug Bellenger Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Can't wait to see the videos!!

• $25 Barbara Shreibman Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  I want photos and video

• $25 Steven Jones Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

• $25 max sobol Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $25 Jared Goralnick Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  This is a a worthwhile effort Blake, with or without the dare.

• $25 Anonymous Voted for sing and dance YMCA with so...

  Looks like fun Blake, Good Luck!

• $25 Tracey Welson Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  I never thought I would pay money to see someone do something this stupid, but never say never.

  This is fantastic.

• $25 Paul Lang Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Good luck, Blake!

• $25 Michael Cullina Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  Tal - you are a genius.

• $25 Anthony Bucci Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Blake I debated giving you Tuesdays off to schedule your meetings and anything that would have to be sans-beard. But then I thought, if you are going to launch a company, you should be the poster-boy 100% of the time. Even in meetings.

  I love this site.

  I will provide the get-up if this wins.

• $25 Joshua Kopelman Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Just to clarify -- you should wear the outfit everyday, ALL day, for a month :-)

• $25 Neil Kleinman Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  I'd have found it more challenging for you, Blake, if you'd tried to compete with the NY Times Square cowboy but I suspect Philly is less liberal and generous with its public spaces. (But of course, you'd save on the cost of a costume and that money could go to the Start Up Corps!)

  Good luck.

• $25 Christina Hillson Voted for jog the Art Museum steps ho...

  Ha! Loved this one, but you have to do it on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Don't try to be sneaky and do it in the middle of the night!

• $25 Barbara Shreibman Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  meant to donate 50 the first time!

• $20 Linda Karp Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Leave it to you Blake to something outrageous for a good cause. Good luck with it!

• $20 Jameson Detweiler Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

  Blake with a beard? Amazing.

• $20 Dan Hershberg Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  This would be even more superb if a beard became a mustache.

• $20 Michelle Miller Voted for go to Geno's and order in S...

• $20 Anonymous Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  I hope I get a heads up when this will happen so I can witness it. Wish I could donate more:) Keep up the good work!

• $20 Shawn Huston Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  That dog will hunt...
  Saddle up

• $20 Jacob Gross Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $20 Eoghan McGreevy-Stafford Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $15 Anonymous Voted for go to Geno's and order in S...

• $15 Tal Raviv Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  July 5, 5:30 PM - On the steps of the art museum

  July 12, 5:30 PM - 5th and Chestnut, near the horses

  July 19, 5:30 PM - 12th and Locust (Gayborhood)

  July 26 - 5:30 PM - 15th and Market

• $12 Joseph Chiaccio Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  ... and to top it all off, a belt buckle that says "Don't Mess With Texas".

  This is going to be awesome. I can't wait to see it. Good luck BB.

• $10 Jameel Farruk Voted for jog the Art Museum steps ho...

• $10 Lindsay Jennelle Voted for go to Geno's and order in S...

  pero ten cuidado!

• $10 Steven Ujifusa Voted for wear a bowtie for a week.

  Blake went to Harvard. He should know how to tie one.

• $10 Robert J. Moore Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Best. Dare. Ever.

• $10 Stephen Douglass Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  This should help round it out...

• $10 Anonymous Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $10 Chin-Hock Low Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  And record a one minute video (put in youtube to memorialize it) at the end of the month with the outfit and talk with a "cowboy" drawl. A month of practice should get U there.

• $10 Philippe Chetrit Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $10 Seth Perkins Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  Goodluck breaking out of that shyness bubble.

• $10 Nicolas Warren Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  I want to see him post next to the Rocky Statue.

• $10 Cara Gouldey Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  I'm going to need some live footage of this!

• $10 Jordan Elpern-Waxman Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  I have to admit to having a rather tight budget at the moment, but this was definitely worthy of support.

• $10 Robert Shedd Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Have fun Blake! :) Congrats on the new startup!

• $10 Aaron McLean Voted for DOUBLE DARE: Blake becomes ...

  Full on cowboy!

• $10 Brian Glusman Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Congrats on the success so far Blake! Look forward to talking to you guys soon about possibilities for using dunktank and ENJYN together for fundraising, but in the meantime thought I could at least help you towards your ridiculous embarassing double dare goal! WIll double dares become a feature I wonder? :-) Talk soon,

  -Brian

• $10 Christopher Mengel Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Blake, good luck in your new venture teaching America's youth. I do wonder though how many suspicious activity reports you will generate because of your getup.

• $7 Colin Bartlett Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

• $6 Gabriel Weinberg Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

  Would really like to see 3mo, but will settle for 1.

• $5 Joseph Cotellese Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  alright, I'm in.

• $5 Chap Ambrose Voted for jog the Art Museum steps ho...

• $5 Raina Casarez Voted for DDR with Penda, Goddess of ...

  Blake, I hope you have some rhythm...

• $5 Anthony Bucci Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Just to clarify, this is all day every day. Dates with ladies, church, dinner, dancing, raising VC etc. All the time.

  If you play this right, you could be a PR god for a month.

  Booch

• $5 Troy Yohn Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

• $5 Chap Ambrose Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

  Yeah it worked!

• $5 Meldon Jones Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Yee-haw! I only have $5 but I'm giving it away because I wish there had been a program like this at my high school too. Good luck!

• $5 Joseph Norton Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

  I think Blake should have to grow it out until his beard = Chap's beard. But, I guess I'll settle for 1 month..

  I really like the idea fellas. Looks great.

• $5 Michael Hagan Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

  I'm a huge fan of beards! I've had one since Dream It!

  Site looks great.

• $5 Brad Oyler Voted for grow a beard (not shave for...

  I would donate more if I even believed you could grow a beard. Good luck.

• $5 Anthony Bucci Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Iqram, I am not sure if there is a "double dare" option, but once Blake is regaled in his western garb, we can find another charity to support as we vote on "physical challenges" for him to tackle.

  For the record, I think the other team hasn't got a clue.

• $5 Joanne Lang Voted for sing and dance YMCA with so...

  Who are the "friends" singing with you?

• $5 Anthony Bucci Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  @Alexis +1 for a badge. But it may say "Deputy". It's still being discussed.

• $5 alexis siemons Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  can we add a sheriff badge?

• $5 Anthony Bucci Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  @Chin-Hock - Oh we're def recording the Blake Jennelle immolation scene at RevZilla HQ as he don's the last suit he'll ever need.

• $5 CHris Stanchak Voted for Wear a Cowboy Hat, Cowboy B...

  Screw it...I'm in.