Edward Domain

Edward is the founder and CEO of Techli.com. He is a writer, U.S. Army veteran, serial entrepreneur and chronic early adopter. Having worked for startups in Silicon Valley and Chicago, he founded, grew and successfully exited his own previous startup and loves telling the tales of innovators everywhere.

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Kickstarter Campaign: ‘Something Fragile’ By Happy Badger Studio Has Heart- Literally
BY: Edward Domain
“Something Fragile“ is the title of a new kind of video game being produced by Happy Badger Studios . In it, the main character (a creature) must go on a journey while protecting a heart. “We believe in doing something different with games,” said Ben Triola of Happy Badger in the team’s Kickstarter video (see below). ”We’re [...]
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SXSW Interview: Eduardo Tobon, President, Diners Club International
BY: Edward Domain
Eduardo Tobon recently took over the helm as President of Diners Club International. As he expands the brand of the world’s first credit card worldwide, he is also different than many chief executives. Tobon not only realized Diners Club needed to be on social media, he uses social media himself and leads by example. Rare [...]
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StartUp Missouri’s St. Louis And Kansas City SXSW Trip: The Love Affair Begins
BY: Edward Domain
Like any good love story, this one starts with a ‘meet-cute’ involving entrepreneurs in St. Louis and Kansas City that ventured down to Austin, TX (and SXSW 2013) on the StartUp Missouri bus. They shared many things: a long ride, impossible sleep positions and a toilet that stopped working about a mile into the trip. [...]
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LockerDome Fastest Growing Sports Site In World; Blows Past 10M Uniques And Raises $6M In Funding
BY: Edward Domain
“Someday, I’ll even tell you how many total pageviews we have. Probably not though.” The fastest growing sports site in the world, (and hottest St. Louis startup) LockerDome, just closed a $6 million round of funding and also just blew past 10M monthly unique visitors to its website. “We are the most capital efficient online [...]
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Amiigo: Fitness Bracelet For iPhone And Android Blows Away Funding Goal
BY: Edward Domain
“I’m an athlete,” said David Scott, one of the cofounders of new exercise bracelet Amiigo. “I don’t need to push to the absolute limit and I still like to eat and talk to my friends. Amiigo is built with this in mind- some people want to track everything, and others want to compare with their [...]
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BREAKING NOW: @BurgerKing Hacked- McDonalds Spy? Anonymous?
BY: Edward Domain
It probably had to happen sometime- open warfare between Burger giants @BurgerKing and @McDonalds has begun. Maybe. Right now, someone or somebody has hacked @BurgerKing and changed to what you see above. Click over there quick, it might not be up long….assuming SOMEONE is paying attention to the twitter feed there. We’re pretty sure a [...]
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Have a Great Startup Idea, But Need A Developer? Meet Matchist
BY: Edward Domain
Matchist cofounders Stella Fayman and Tim Jahn meet a lot of entrepreneurs through their successful speaker series Entrepreneurs Unpluggd in Chicago. “Time and time again,” said Fayman, “we always heard questions from people about developers. How to hire one, how to work with one and things of that nature. We felt that there was a [...]
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Techli Innovate, January 24th: Poland’s Startup Community Visits St. Louis
BY: Edward Domain
Techli Innovate is kicking off the New Year with our first event of 2013: INNOVATION EVERYWHERE! or Innowacje kazde miejsce! Sure, ‘Innovation Everywhere’ is Techli’s tagline, so we thought it an appropriate way to kick off 2013. And this time, we mean EVERYWHERE- our guest speaker is coming in from Warsaw, Poland, to discuss [...]
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St. Louis Startups Work Hard, Play Hard: Launch Your Startup Here
BY: Edward Domain
In Techli, you’ve read about some of the exciting things happening in St. Louis as its startup ecosystem starts to come into its own… What a difference a half year makes! Buckle in, and take a peek at some of the people that have started to make up the St. Louis startup ecosystem- in the [...]
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In Las Vegas At Walgreens? St. Louis Startup Aisle 411 Has Got Something For You
BY: Edward Domain
Hot on the heels of their deal with Walgreens, aisle411 is launching their Indoor Geo-Fence Alerts Solution platform that will allow retailers (and 3rd party developers) to customize a shopper’s experience in a store. The API was acquired from Sunnyvale, CA WiLocate in September of 2012 and adds increased functionality to aisle411′s store mapping app. [...]
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St. Louis Startups: Sleek, Chic, Lab 1500 Opens This Monday
BY: Edward Domain
This Monday, St. Louis’ worst kept secret finally opens: Lab 1500. Created by Dan Lohman and Jan Christian Andersen, Lab 1500 is located at 1500 Washington Ave. More than a co-working space, Lab 1500′s goal is to become a centerpiece of the St. Louis startup scene. “Our goal for Lab1500 is to be a place [...]
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St. Louis’ Butterscotch Shenanigans: “This Time, There Are No Towels”
BY: Edward Domain
Butterscotch Shenanigan’s founder Seth Coster did a year in law school when he had an epiphany. “I felt like I was in a pointless loop,” he said, “and so I quit law school.” What Seth really wanted to do was create video games, but some epiphanies take longer to sink in than others. “After law [...]
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Funny Yet Evil TextReject Rejecting Lots Of People
BY: Edward Domain
Techli introduced you to TextReject back a couple weeks and since then things have gotten interesting for the new St. Louis startup. In just over two months, the joke turned startup has: – Had 2,398 incoming and outgoing text messages. – A TV appearance – 350 unique phone numbers texting or calling text reject phone [...]
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Why is Gabe Lozano All Smiles? LockerDome Blows Past 5 Million Monthly Vistors, That’s Why
BY: Edward Domain
This article isn’t about what LockerDome is or what it does. If you don’t know, head on over there and friend request me. I’m a friendly type and will likely accept. The point of this article article is to report a little news and then make a declaration. Let’s get into it: Back on December [...]
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St. Louis Entrepreneur Jonathan Leek Forms Local IGDA Chapter
BY: Edward Domain
Jonathan Leek is a geek. A geek gamer. A geek gamer who makes games, and he wanted company. And a little respect for St. Louis video game developers too. “There is a vibrant, growing game development scene in St. Louis,” said Leek (pictured above), “and as a result we’ve got the makings of a great [...]
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Israel Vicars Transitions From VC To Entrepreneur With Evtron
BY: Edward Domain
Known as the guy who knows everyone in the burgeoning St. Louis startup ecosystem, Israel Vicars believes he has found the perfect situation in Evtron. “Working with Evtron is exciting,” said Vicars. “We have some great stuff happening and will have some big announcements in the very near future.” Formerly an Associate Partner with Cultivation [...]
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Rally St. Louis Funds First Five Projects
BY: Edward Domain
Launching last year, Rally St. Louis is a non-profit dedicated to crowdfunding ideas to improve the city that can’t (or won’t) get funded by traditional means. ”All too there is a lack of funds to do all the great things a city wants to do,” said Aaron Perlut, cofounder of Rally St. Louis. ”We’re excited [...]
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St. Louis Arch Grants Competition: And The Winners Are…
BY: Edward Domain
The final video in a four-part series reveals the 15 winners of the inaugural Arch Grants in St. Louis.
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St. Louis Arch Grants Competition: Finalist Fun Day
BY: Edward Domain
The third video in a four-part series highlighting St. Louis’ Arch Grant competition. This week’s episode features the finalists’ fun day exploring the city’s neighborhoods and culture.
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St. Louis Arch Grants Competition: The Pitches [Video]
BY: Edward Domain
The second video in a four-part series highlighting the pitches from the inaugural Arch Grants competition in St. Louis.
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10 Reasons To Launch A Startup in St. Louis
BY: Edward Domain
Why should you launch your startup in St. Louis? The St. Louis’ startup scene offers your startup some unique opportunities you won’t find in the Valley.
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What Could You Have Done In The Past With A Laptop? [Infographic]
BY: Edward Domain
The Direct2Dell blog posited an interesting question: What Could You Do With A Simple Laptop…In the Past? (One assumes they also meant an unlimited power supply as well) I have to think if I had a laptop in the past, I’d follow the example provided and go back to pre-history and make myself a deity. Being [...]
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Chicago (And The Midwest) To pando daily: Shove It
BY: Edward Domain
Yesterday as I was perusing various news sites and getting caught up on everything, I was treated to a very special episode of pando daily about Chicago written by Trevor Gilbert entitled ‘The Midwest Mentality.’ In it, young Trevor talks about how the Midwest Mentality has made Chicago a city of “pragmatists” when he says: [...]
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Editorial: In Defense Of KONY 2012
BY: Edward Domain
In the wake of the KONY 2012 film being uploaded to YouTube on March 5th, 2012, Invisible Children, Inc. (the non-profit organization that produced the film) has catapulted to worldwide attention and now its mission and financials are being scrutinized and attacked in the court of public opinion. The film is an example of a [...]
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SXSW: Oprah Network Star Zach Anner Planning New Launch
BY: Edward Domain
Last year when Oprah Winfrey left her show after 25 years to launch OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) she had an online contest for ordinary, Oprah lovin’ folks to have their own show on her network. The top entrants then appeared on a reality show on the OWN network where they competed in a series of [...]
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