Edward Domain

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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  • techweek

    Chicago Techweek Gets New Executive Director; Pasky Out

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    Arabella Santiago has been appointed the new Executive Director of Chicago tech conference Techweek.  The Board of Directors at Techweek asked the former Executive Director, Jon Pasky, to step down for unspecified reasons. Pasky’s departure officially marks the end of the original founders of Techweek running the organization.  Brian Mayer left the company over a [...]

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  • techweek

    TechWeek Founders Part Ways

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    The founders of Midwestern conference company TechWeek have parted ways. Jon Pasky and Geoff Domoracki were the two remaining founders of the company that launched as midVentures in 2010 and later rebranded as TechWeek. Their first major conference under the TechWeek label was put on this year in Chicago and the external communications from the [...]

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  • dab

    Dabble Expands To 50 Cities

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    Chicago startup Dabble announced this week they have expanded to 50 markets globally this week due to hundreds of requests from cities outside Chicago. Dabble allows someone with an idea to teach a class an opportunity to reach potential students that are interested in “Dabbling” in a new area. Dabble handles payments for the classes [...]

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    Urination Gamification

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    If you thought you could use some more gaming in your life, UK gamers can have a chance to play video games while talking to man about a horse. (Otherwise known as “urinating”) Captive Games has created three unique video games wired into urinals whose in-game characters are controlled by the players’ urine stream. The [...]

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    Energy Deregulation Startup Power 2 Switch Raises $1.3 Million

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    Chicago startup Power2Switch has raised $1.3 million dolars in financing. The energy deregulation startup allows individual and commercial electricity customers choose the electricity provider that powers their home or business and save them money on their monthly bill. “The close of this financing has enabled us to also accelerate our expansion into other states, as [...]

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  • bee

    Social Discovery Startup Ntro Launches With $1.7 Million In Funding

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    This morning L.A. startup nProgress launched their new social discovery app ntro . Successful video game designers Josh Resnick and Trey Watkins of Pandemic Studios and nProgress founders launched ntro with $1.7 Million in funding raised from a mix of Angels and institutions: Activsion Media Partners, Jeff Pulver, Jarl Mohn, Gordon Crawford, Kevin Wall, Baroda Ventures, SV Angel [...]

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  • michael-arrington

    Op-Ed: Arrington Is Right: Quit Whining

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    My friend and fellow writer at Tech.li, Jason Rowley, wrote an excellent editorial today on Michael Arrington’s recent article about people “whining” at startups. Jason brings up the suicide of Ilya Zhitomirskiy at Diaspora and quotes some other people talking about the importance of expressing your feelings and not getting burnt out. Arrington included a [...]

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  • arch

    Spring 2012 St. Louis Accelerator Apps Due Wednesday

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    St. Louis- This Wednesday (Nov. 30) is the deadline for startups to apply to the St. Louis Accelerator Program Capital Innovators. Capital Innovators had it’s first class in 2010 and incubated seven companies and are preparing for their second class. Capital Innovators provides $50,000 in seed funding to invitees in return for an equity share [...]

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  • apple

    Patent War: Apple Vs. Samsung

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    ‘Apple and Samsung are engaged in a heated mobile device patent war consisting of many legal battles in several different countries.’ View the history of the current patent war between Apple and Samsung: Via: Online MBA Guide

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  • contactbig

    Bionic Contacts: Terminator-Like Awesomeness Ahead

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    Seattle, Washington -  Researchers at the University of Washington are revolutionizing the contact lens and turning it into something any T-800 would love: Bionic Contacts. The project is being lead by Babak Parviz, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University  noted,”We see screens everyday. Whether it is your alarm clock, your laptop or your cell [...]

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    AmericanCensorship.org SOPA Infographic

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    Don’t understand the effect of the Stop Online Piracy Act Bill (SOPA) and why it’s so important to fight it? AmericanCensorship.org has released this infographic to explain it all. For more information on the stop SOPA movement check out their site AmericanCensorship.org

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  • collabbioscience

    Collaborative Bioscience: A Medical Sales Rep’s Worst Nightmare

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    Medical device salesman and University of Miami Florida entrepreneur Mark Slaughter had an idea. While selling medical devices to hospital groups around South Florida, he realized that many of these groups were spending their precious capital inefficiently by over-purchasing expensive equipment. “The typical health system for a city has five hospitals in it,” said Slaughter. “I [...]

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  • face

    Facebook vs. Everyone: What’s in a Name?

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    Last year the social networking giant we all know as Facebook launched a number of lawsuits against websites that had the suffix “book” in their name. Among them, Lamebook, a Facebook parody site, BearBook, a site for gay men, and Teachbook (Full disclosure: I created and later sold Teachbook to its current owners several years ago). Prior to [...]

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  • park

    Startup Smackdown: SpotHero vs ParkWhiz

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    The maxim of launching a startup in the digital world works like this: Take an existing business that has been doing things the same way for decades, move it to the Internet, disrupt the old way of doing things, and make money. In today’s Startup Smackdown the competitors are companies dealing with a major consumer annoyance [...]

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  • venture

    Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

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    There has never been a manual for the entrepreneur raising venture capital — until now. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist is a must-read book for any entrepreneur actively (or considering) raising capital. Written by two of Foundry Group’s Managing Directors, (Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson), Venture Deals is a 214 page [...]

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    The Lean Startup Video

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    Eric Ries’ book, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, has inspired entrepreneurs around the world and has almost evolved into a cult among its most ardent followers. “When I read The Lean Startup my whole outlook on how I ran my business changed,” said Jayme Joyce of the [...]

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    Chatroom Geeks to Hosting Moguls: The Rise of SingleHop

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    Zak Boca and Dan Ushman — the founders of the successful Chicago-based server company SingleHop — got their start in the online world the same way a lot of the Digital Generation did; in chatrooms on AOL. “My screen name was ‘Biz’ and Dan’s was ‘Eggo,’” Boca said. “We met in a business chatroom and got to [...]

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  • Groupon

    Groupon Offers Its Stock As Groupon?

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    By now it’s old news that the shine is off for Groupon’s IPO. Previously valued at $25 Billion, Groupon’s IPO is now expected to be valued at $10 – $12 Billion. If you are someone that is excited about the IPO and want to get in on buying some stock, now you can. (Er, sort [...]

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  • StartupIsrael

    Startup Israel Documentary

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    With a population of approximately 7 million people, Israel produces more startups per capita than any other nation in the world.

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  • venture-capital-q3

    VC Funding Slows in Q3; Investments in Software Remain Solid

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    According to The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Association — based on data from Thomson Reuters — as the economy remains moribund in glacial growth,

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    [Video] Two Moments With Steve Jobs

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    With the passing of Steve Jobs yesterday, the tech world (and the world in general) lost an icon and the end of an era was upon us. Apple will go on but the indelible mark Steve Job left on society and technology will be felt for decades to come. I sat last night watching the [...]

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    Mayor Emanuel to Dedicate New Chicago Tech Center

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    Earlier today we reported that Chicago is going to be opening a new technology center for startups. A technology center to bring Chicago’s entrepreneurs together has long been a wish for the Chicago digital entrepreneur community. Steve Collens, VP of New World Ventures, has been leading the effort to develop the new center and has been [...]

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    [Video] The Imperial March on Disk Drives

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    “Floppy Disk Drive?”  You know, the things you used to put low density (or High Density) floppies into to load your sweet warez you downloaded from a BBS site back in the crazy days of the late 90s?  (I can hear the crickets chirping now as a tumbleweed blows by, sigh.) One of the many [...]

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  • Mike

    Arianna Huffington? Call From Michael Arrington On Line 1

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    Reason #5876 why Michael Arrington still kicks ass. Check out his new blog…. TechBunch  

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    Tech.li Dallas Startup Expo

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    proudly presents:   Dallas Startup Expo As tech.li expands its coverage of startup coverage in the Big D, we are hosting our first ever Texas event in Dallas! Come out and meet seven startups changing the game in their fields, hear what Tech.li is doing in Texas, and engage in lively discussions of the Dallas [...]

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