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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Plotter Takes Top Prize at SXSW Accelerator Interactive
BY: Annie Zaleski
Imagine you’re visiting an unfamiliar city. Your first order of business is to seek out delicious places to eat and drink, as well as unique sightseeing attractions. To find these local gems, you might check Foursquare and Yelp for tips, browse TripAdvisor or ask friends for suggestions. But how do you organize these recommendations—and find [...]
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St. Louis Experiences Its Own SXSW At SXSTL13
BY: Caryn Tomer
As you are likely aware, South by Southwest (SXSWi) Interactive Festival is the biggest digital and social event of the year. Featuring an extraordinary who’s who of industry leaders, celebrities, and brands, attendees can expect five days of networking excellence, dynamic presentations, and the very best in social media, digital, and technology. And not to [...]
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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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Hoot.Me: Switching Facebook Into Study Mode
BY: Smith Schwartz
Facebook application that lets students, teachers and tutors interact through social media to get homework finished better and faster.
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4 Fresh Marketing Ideas From SxSW Interactive 2012
BY: Rex Harris
SxSWi is to ideas, what CES is to gadgets – in an environment such as this, it was easy to pick out four such ideas worthwhile to marketers.
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Deadsoci.al Lets You Send Creepy Messages From The Afterlife
BY: Corey Cummings
DeadSoci.al is a UK-based that allows you to schedule social media posts to be disseminated over time after your death.
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Instaprint Turns Your IPhone Into A Photo Booth
BY: Corey Cummings
Instaprint is an internet-capable printer that spits out Instagram shots in the most suitable form possible: small square Polaroids. Breakfast, the New York-based company of inventors, as they call themselves, created the product specifically to pair up with Instagram’s nostalgically filtered photos, saying its reasons for developing the product stemmed from a longing for “those [...]
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Instagram Android App Surfaces At SXSW; Systrom Says Better Than iPhone App
BY: Corey Cummings
After several months of waiting, Instagram’s Android app made its first appearance at SXSW this week in prototype form. The app has been exclusive to the iPhone since it’s release in late 2010 and went on to win Apple’s iPhone app of the year last year. With all the excitement and acclaim since it first [...]
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SXSW: 5 Great Things About Being Minecraft’s Director Of Fun
BY: Edward Domain
For those that don’t know, Minecraft is an addicting game or horrible disease depending on who you ask. Usually it is described as both. The game, invented by Markus Persson, is a massive success that allows players Minecraft addicts to run free in a ‘sandbox’ world and create well, anything. Mojang is the parent company of [...]
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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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SXSW: Gawker VP Talks About The Next Generation of Publishing
BY: Rex Harris
“A lot of the stuff you see a few days later in mainstream media, you got from us first. That makes it very personal for the readership – there’s a lot of engagement there.” That’s a quote from Gawker’s VP of ad sales, Andrew Gorenstein, talking about how a new breed of publishers, like Gawker [...]
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SXSW: “Don’t Cut Your Toenails During a Pitch,” And Other Advice by Oren Jacob
BY: Rex Harris
As an ex-”entrepreneur in residence” with August Capital, and the current CEO of ToyTalk, Oren Jacob knows more than a thing or two about how startups get funded. Having sat on both sides of the table now, the advice shared by Oren is invaluable to any entrepreneur seeking a cash injection to help start, or grow [...]
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