One of Ticket Leap's mottos, "Think outside the box office," could also be its organizing principle. The Philadelphia-based online ticketing company essentially offers a smaller, more creative and user-friendly version of Ticketmaster.
But the comparison only goes so far. One of the big differences between Ticket Leap and its behemoth counterparts is that Ticket Leap has a democratizing element: anyone can create an account and sell tickets to their event.
With an easy-to-use, intuitive website and features like online event registration, free virtual box office software, event promotion and a Facebook application, the company is making moves to integrate social networks into ticket sales. In that sense, Ticket Leap's format recognizes and embraces the ways in which the online social networks have changed how we find out about and attend events.
Founded in 2003 by CEO Chris Stanchak, who at the time was in his final year at Wharton, and his mother, the company now employs 23 and counts among its clients the University of Pennsylvania, DePaul University, The American Red Cross, Comic Con 2009 and America's Video Game Expo.