Startups: Get Legally Aware; Tips From Tricia Meyer
When you have a bright idea with a ton of promise, it’s hard to imagine all the things that could go wrong… legally. Tricia Meyer has been an attorney and has been advising the start-up community in Chicago for more than a decade to help entrepreneurs cover their bases. The reason she understands an entrepreneur’s [...]... Read More
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GiveForward, Threadless, Tap.me Founders Discuss The Business Of Passion
BY: Corey CummingsThe founders of GiveForward, Threadless, and Tap.me discussed how they turned their individual passions into successful businesses at the latest Entrepreneurs Unpluggd event.
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Austin’s Capital Factory Sharpens Entrepreneurial Skills for Just $150 A Month
BY: Kathryn HoughThink that you have to give up equity in your company to have access to a place where you can work and meet successful mentors? Now, it only costs $150 per month.
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Brad Feld Launches Random Acts Of Kindness On GiveForward
BY: Kathryn HoughVenture capitalist and avid marathoner Brad Feld is using GiveForward to raise money for sick families.
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GiveForward, 21st Century Youth Project Win Gold Medals At Edison Awards
BY: Corey CummingsChicago-based startups GiveForward and the 21st Century Youth Project have both won gold medals at this year’s Edison Awards.
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Terahertz Spectrum Enables Cell Phones To See Through Walls
BY: Corey CummingsResearchers at the University of Texas in Dallas have developed a method of utilizing an untapped wave spectrum to enable mobile devices to see through wood, plastics, and even walls.
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Hoot.Me: Switching Facebook Into Study Mode
BY: Smith SchwartzFacebook application that lets students, teachers and tutors interact through social media to get homework finished better and faster.
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Facebook Announces Timeline Apps At SXSW
BY: Jason RowleyFacebook released new statistics on Open Graph applications at SXSW, touting success stories of popular Timeline apps. According to Facebook product manager Austin Haugen, over 3000 timeline apps have launched, and third-party app developers have seen marked increases in traffic and growth in their user base due to their new presence on their users’ timelines. For example: [...]
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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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Don’t Go To SXSW; Crush Your Competition Instead
BY: Kathryn HoughSXSW kicked off on Friday, but you already knew that if you signed into Facebook or Twitter over the weekend. Every tech hub that is not Austin, TX becomes a ghost town for one week in March. It can leave the geeks left behind with a massive case of FOMO (fear of missing out). But [...]
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Surviving, Thriving and Splitting on the StartupBus to SXSW
BY: Cameron KengStartupbus, for those unfamiliar is a competition where 10 cities (11 this year) each have a bus heading towards Austin, TX for SXSW. The goal is to create a startup in 3 days with complete strangers after getting on the bus. It’s a hackathon on wheels. Highlights that I’ve experienced thusfar: Vomiting. This trip is [...]
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TruYuu Aims To Make Hiring Suck Less
BY: Lindsay ONealAccording to a report by The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series, there are over 10 million more unemployed individuals than the amount of job posting vacancies. And the only thing more ominous to job-seekers than gloomy job-market statistics is in most cases, one simple piece of paper stands between them and their dream job. Unavoidable and incredibly [...]
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Now You See It, Now you ____ : Invisibility Cloak Made Reality
BY: Lindsay ONealWhile its not as sexy as Jessica Alba in the The Fantastic Four, “the cloaking device” demonstrated by researchers from University of Texas at Dallas is pretty damn cool. Their ‘invisibility cloak’ is made possible by creating one-molecule thick transparent carbon nanotube sheets, which are stronger than steel, and then dunking them in water. By running an electrical current [...]
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