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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Edison awards highlight innovation across American industry titans
BY: Sonali BasakCo-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 ZaleskiYou 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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Greenstart Cleantech Accelerator Announces Latest Class
BY: Corey CummingsThis week Greenstart, an accelerator focusing on cleantech projects, has announced its latest class of startups.
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IBM’s CityForward Unites Urbanites To Tackle City Issues
BY: Irina PapucUrbanist and author of the iconic city commentary The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs once said, “Design is people.” This philosophy of collaborative planning towards common goals resonates with IBM’s laterst philanthropic project, CityForward.com.
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NowMaid: Do You Trust The Person Who Cleans Your House?
BY: Jon ChristianNowMaid, a service to find, rate and hire domestic cleaners, is about trust, says founder Ayo Omojola.
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Could This Fuel Cell Keep Your Phone Charged For Weeks?
BY: Jon ChristianAn MA developer says so — that that it’s been approved for in-flight use.
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Vertical Urban Farm’s Technology Makes Food Out of Waste
BY: Irina PapucWaste equals food in John Edel’s vernacular. Edel is the founder of “The Plant,†an old meatpacking facility that will grow food sustainably while producing zero net waste.
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Tidal Turbines Lead The Future Of Green Energy In Europe
BY: Corey CummingsWe’ve seen green energy harnessed from the wind with towering turbines and the ocean through bouncing buoys, but what about an underwater turbine that harnesses tidal power? For almost a decade engineers at Andritz Hydro have been developing a unique turbine that harvests energy from powerful tidal currents on the ocean floor.
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Google-Backed Wind Power Venture Approved By Department Of The Interior
BY: Jon ChristianThe Atlantic Wind Connection is a proposed transmission backbone that would run along 250 miles of coast from New Jersey to Virginia.
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Could This Fuel Cell Keep Your Phone Charged For Weeks?
BY: Jon ChristianA Massachusetts-based developer says it’s prepping to release a device, about the size of a pack of cigarettes, that can recharge your mobile devices two dozen times on one powerup.
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From Airbnb to Zaarly: A Short History of Collaborative Consumption Startups
BY: Kathryn HoughI was born in the 1980′s. It was the decade in which Gordon Gekko proclaimed, “greed is good!”, teens were mallrats, and shoulder pads helped ring in the decade of the power woman. Community was put on the back burner as individual successes became the marker by which economic strength was judged. There’s a reason why [...]
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Energy Deregulation Startup Power 2 Switch Raises $1.3 Million
BY: Edward DomainChicago 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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Penny Pinched: Beyond Bootstrapping
Bigger Isn’t Always Better In Terms Of Employer 
Race To The Bottom #entrepreneurfail - COMIC