Tech Wildcatters Pitch Day Recap

Dallas seed accelerator Tech Wildcatters hosted its 2nd pitch day yesterday at the Magnolia theatre in Dallas. With a theatre full of investors, entrepreneurs, and community members, its seven startups.

From Urban Design To Dabbling In New Business

Jessica Lybeck is the co-founder of Dabble, a new site allowing anybody to teach a class and anybody to dabble in new activities. Before Dabble, Jessica co-founded a small business marketing firm and before that was an urban designer working on 50-year plans for colleges.

I interviewed Jessica to learn about dabble, her journey as an entrepreneur, and what sorts of things urban designers do (cool stuff!).

Instantaneous Photo and Video Sharing With Mobli

  Imagine seeing the world through other people’s eyes. Well now you can do just that with Mobli. At  Mobli.com, you can see real-time streams of visual content from around.

Building A Start-up Team (Tips From Dating)

Sunshine. Rainbows. Butterflies. We all know that giddy feeling.  Finding the “right one” makes all the difference. As entrepreneurs, we can take a few tips from dating to help us.

LinkedIn IPO Harbinger For Facebook, GS To Benefit

Clearly I was not the only one to push a buy order through for the LinkedIn IPO last week. Nor was I the only one to sell everything; it’s just.

Travel Connected With gtrot

gtrot, short for globetrotting, gtrot makes it easy to share travel plans, collect advice from the people you trust and connect with friends and deals in your destination.

Revitalized SMC-Milwaukee Promises a Resurgence

Full disclosure: I am credited by many as the one responsible for the resurrection of the Milwaukee chapter of SMC. I like to think of it more as a collaborative.

Tripeezy: Travel Sharing Made Simple

While traveling around the world, Paige Brown wanted to share her experiences with friends and family, but couldn’t without paying for international access to her smartphone.  To solve this problem,.

Tabblr: Activity Finder For The Here and Now

Who among us is not occasionally faced with the problem of how to spend the next few hours, the afternoon, the day? This being Chicago, something is happening pretty much at every moment, but until now there was no one to tell you what, only where.

Flyover Geeks: New Name? Full Team? B O O M!

Since I launched Flyover Geeks in August of last year, (for a trip down memory lane, see here and here) coverage of the tech scene in Chicago and beyond has.