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How to Handle Funeral Costs
By Susan Johnston for US News and World Reports They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Uncle Sam withholds money for taxes, but there's no forced savings for a funeral. Most people don't give it much thought until they're grieving the loss of a loved one – ...
Continue Reading'I’m Sorry to Hear' Welcomed into Project Liberty Digital Incubator
Founded by Drexel grad Rachel Zeldin, the former Baiada Institute company is touted as the "TripAdvisor of funeral planning." Rachel Zeldin, founder of online funeral planning resource I’m Sorry to Hear, LLC, has found a new home at 801 Market Street in Project Liberty’s Digital Incubator. The incubator is located ...
Continue ReadingProject Liberty Welcomes 5th Class!
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) announced the fifth startup company class of the Project Liberty Digital Incubator. The program is hosted by Interstate General Media (IGM), operated by Ben Franklin, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Project Liberty Digital Incubator is stimulating ...
Continue ReadingShark Tank of the Mainline Interview with Rachel Zeldin
On June 19, 2014 Rachel Zeldin of I'm Sorry to Hear and Funerals360 chatted with Rick Anthony of TEN Radio (The Entrepreneurs Network Radio) about the innovative funeral planning website. You can download or listen to the podcast here online: TEN Radio Business impresario Rick Anthony hosts The Entrepreneurs Network Radio, a ...
Continue ReadingD2D Podcast with Rachel Zeldin, Death Planning Entrepreneur
On June 1, Brant Huddleston, host of the Dance to Death Afterlife Podcast (D2D Podcast) chatted with Rachel Zeldin of Funerals360 (formerly "I'm Sorry to Hear") about the innovative funeral planning website, as well as the concept of death cafes, and planning for the inevitable. The podcast brought to mind the topic of death in ...
Continue ReadingBehind the Scene of the Entrepreneur Invasion
By Micheal Bradley for Main Line Today, May 2014 Rachel Zeldin has worked for a global financial-services company and isn’t a naturally shy person. Even so, she confesses to being a little intimidated at one particular business meeting last February. She didn’t doubt the quality of her product, I’m Sorry to Hear, a website that ...
Continue ReadingLower Makefield woman establishes 'imsorrytohear.com' to help with funeral planning
By Petra Chesner Schlatt for Bucks Local News When someone passes away, loved ones are grief-stricken. They must process their feelings and begin to deal with a future without the recently deceased. They also have to deal with the present, and many don’t know how. Entrepreneur Rachel Zeldin knows how ...
Continue ReadingGiving Yourself a Basic Education About Funeral Planning Now
By Judith Johnson for the Huffington Post If you had to plan a funeral for a loved one tomorrow, would you know what to do and what not to do? Most of us are woefully unprepared when faced with this task and must do so while grieving the loss of ...
Continue ReadingRachel is now a Tribe12 Fellow!
Tribe12 Names Rachel Zeldin as a 2014 Fellow! Rachel Zeldin, Founder and CEO of I’m Sorry To Hear and Funerals360, has been named a 2014 Tribe12 Fellow. This is the fourth class of Tribe12 fellows since its inception in 2010. What is Tribe12? Tribe12 is a network of projects that help ...
Continue ReadingWhat do I do? It's kind of weird...
By Mark Eyerly for Drexel's Market Street Publication If the hearses outside the hotel weren’t enough to remind Rachel Zeldin that she turned her life upside down, her fellow vendors in the exhibit hall at the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association drove the point home. Casket manufacturers. Embalming fluids salesmen. Cremation ...
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