Entrepeneurs showcase their products at Inspire Business Center.

Start-ups secure solid 1-minute pitches at Inspire Showcase

  An intimate crowd of approximately 50 people gathered Wednesday evening at the Inspire Business Center in Chicago’s West Loop for Inspire’s monthly start-up showcase. Amongst the crowd there were some returners and some new faces. Marina Dedes, vice president of venture capital firm Lightbank, was the keynote speaker and shared tips to entrepreneurs about [...]... Read More

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    Capital Innovators Demo Day 2013 (IN PHOTOS)

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    Last week, Capital Innovators hosted its Demo Day, where 11 companies from its fall 2012 and spring 2013 classes presented to an audience of over 500 people at the Pageant in St. Louis.  These 500 people included prospective investors as well as mentors, supporters and entrepreneurs of tech firms in St. Louis. (Photos courtesy of Jason [...]

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  • Kevin Willer, CEO of Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, celebrates with start-up leaders on the first anniversary of 1871.

    1871 anniversary spotlights Chicago startup growth

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      Leaders of the Chicago startup community released figures Friday regarding the city’s start-up growth coinciding with the first anniversary of 1871, one of the city’s start-up incubators. “Over the last year, the tech community has really come together through 1871,” said Lindsay Mosher, executive director of the Illinois Technology Partnership. “This has really been [...]

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    “Advance St. Louis” Series Helps Startups Move to High Growth Stage

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    Law firm Polsinelli Shughart and the Center for Emerging Technologies is offering its third seminar in its “Advance St. Louis” series on May 7, 2013. With past events focusing on patent law and board of directors selection, their next event promises to deliver another strong topic with how to successfully structure and complete a friends [...]

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  • The 2013 "Meet the Innovators Forum" for the Edison Awards was held at the Chicago Cultural Center, where industry leaders collaborated.

    Edison awards highlight innovation across American industry titans

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    Co-authored by: Lauryn Schroeder, Medill News Service It starts with something simple. For 12-year-old Quincy Lyons, it started with the first bite of an orange. An orange that he believed to be ripe, only to discover that it was rotten inside. This one experience led him and a team of middle-schoolers from Tuscon’s Sonoran Science [...]

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  • Bob Weisman, a team member of Diabetes Winners!, the team that won start-up weekend, pitches to an audience of start-up leaders, judges and attendees.

    Chicago start-up weekend stresses collaboration over competition

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          Instead of spending the weekend relaxing, 96 entrepreneurs gathered at 1871, Chicago’s start-up incubator, to build a company in less than 3 days and compete to win a series of prizes, and the approval of start-up community leaders. “It’s more than just networking and talking, it’s about building,” said Adam Haun, one [...]

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    Nourish your network; Entice investors

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    An intimate crowd of entrepreneurs, developers and investors gathered in the basement of Chopin Theater in Wicker Park Tuesday night seeking direction from startup and investment experts. The Entrepreneurs Unpluggd event, entitled “When, Where, How to Get Investors for Your Startup,” was led by Chicago entrepreneurs Stella Fayman and Tim Jahn. Ninis Samuel and Mike [...]

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    Northeast Ohio’s Tech Week Continues To Grow

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    In Cleveland, the arrival of spring signals the return of baseball (go Tribe!), the end of the snowy season and the annual Northeast Ohio Software Association (NEOSA) Tech Week. Taking place this year between April 15-21, this gathering has become one of Northeast Ohio’s more popular tech-centric events—and a chance to “to support, engage, connect [...]

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    Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy Airs WEDNESDAY At Lab1500

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    This Wednesday, March 27th, ‘Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy’ airs at Lab 1500 at 6 p.m. in St. Louis. (The event put on by Openly Disruptive) You can find out more at the event page, here: Openly Disruptive The movie is about, well, the title kind of says it all, doesn’t it? If you [...]

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    TUESDAY: Wute.vc Invites St. Louis Startup Community to Digital Q&A with Union Square Ventures

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    wute.vc started as a student group at Washington University in St. Louis with the goal of connecting students with venture capitalists and seasoned entrepreneurs. At their most recent event, a remote Hangout with VC and author Brad Feld, the St. Louis startup community was invited to attend, and the response was quite positive – to [...]

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    Techli Innovate, January 24th: Poland’s Startup Community Visits St. Louis

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      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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    CheekyChicago Celebrates the Windy City’s Hardest Working Women

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    CheekyChicago, the Windy City’s hot guide for women, is set to kick off its biggest event of the year this week with a celebration of the city’s Cheekiest Chicks.

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    Tonight: Successful Chicago E-Pub Author Hosting Shindig.com Chat Tonight

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    Previously featured on Techli’s CEO Sundays, self published author Karly Kirkpatrick is taking her blog series, Adventures in E-Publishing, to the interwebs for a free live event on Thursday, January 3rd from 7-8 PM EST. Along with fellow author Megg Jensen, Kirkpatrick will present the keys to publishing successful ebooks for the beginner. There will [...]

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