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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Capital Innovators Demo Day 2013 (IN PHOTOS)
BY: Caryn Tomer
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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Edison awards highlight innovation across American industry titans
BY: Sonali Basak
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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Amplified Wind Solutions Takes Top Cleantech Award
BY: Annie Zaleski
You could say that Amplified Wind Solutions CEO Niki Zmij has had a pretty good year. After taking second place in the student business idea competition at the 2012 Northeast Ohio Entrepreneur Expo, her cleantech company—whose technology was developed out of Cleveland State University, where she is an MBA student—won the Ohio Clean Energy Challenge [...]
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Autumn Berry: Chicago’s Newest Startup Fruit
BY: Sonali Basak
Autumn Berry Inspired won Inspire Business Center’s monthly start-up competition to obtain office space in Chicago’s West Loop – giving this new food trend a greater chance to make a debut in Chicago. Just as goji berries and açaí berries have infiltrated food and health trends, the autumn berry is making a debut as [...]
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Northeast Ohio’s Tech Week Continues To Grow
BY: Annie Zaleski
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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13 Ways to Find Your Next Great Technical Hire
BY: The Young Entrepreneur Council
Where are you finding your best technology hires for your startup right now? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start [...]
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Stop Murdering Plants With Plant Link
BY: Edward Domain
Plant Link’s founder, Eduardo Torrealba, had his conscience getting to him. After committing countless acts of basil planticide, he knew he needed to change his wicked ways. “I was tired of killing all my basil plants,” said Torrealba, “and thought I could fix it.” As a Mechanical Engineering graduate student at the University of Illinois, [...]
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The Launch Alliance Offers CTO On-Demand Services to St. Louis Startups
BY: Corey Cummings
The Launch Alliance, a St. Louis-based tech solution for startups, is aiming to bring a new affordable outsourcing option to companies at various stages of development.
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Chicago-based iGearUnlimited Polls Customers To Make The Perfect iPad Mini Case
BY: Kathryn Hough
iGearUnlimited recently polled customers to discover the attributes that all add up to create the perfect iPad mini case.
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Illinois Employers Banned From Demanding Access To Employee Social Network Accounts
BY: Kathryn Hough
A new law goes into effect in 2013 in Illinois that bans employers from demanding credentials and access to their employee’s social networking accounts.
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Danforth Plant Science Center To Continue Investment In Robotics in 2013
BY: Kathryn Hough
Jim Carrington, the president of the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, confirmed today that the center will continue to invest in lab procedure automation robots.
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New High-Tech Chicago Gym Manned By Digital “Staff”
BY: Kathryn Hough
When it comes to science fiction stories where all mundane service jobs are taken over by robots, the future is now. One local Chicago gym chain operates 24 hours a day without a single staff member thanks to digital devices that monitor everything from indoor activity to guest identity.
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