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Braintree Gives Back With $50,000 In Free Payment Processing

Braintree has announced this week that, for the next 1,000 businesses to create an account,…

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BrightTag Scores Big In Yahoo! Japan Partnership

Chicago startup BrightTag announced this week that its tag management platform has been selected to…

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Treehouse Friends: Interview with Paul Irish

Leader of the teaching team at Treehouse Nick Pettit interviews web developer Paul Irish.

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Ohio-Based Applits Wants To Crowdsource The Next Big App

The real test of this startup is not whether they can get enough ideas, but…

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Capital Innovators Opens Applications For Spring Class

St. Louis startup accelerator Capital Innovators has begun accepting applications for its Spring 2013 class…

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Big Banks Funnel $167M Into Renewable Energy Company

E.ON Climate & Renewables, whose North American division is headquartered in Chicago, announced this week…

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Lockerdome and RollSale CEOs To Speak At StartLouis

The StartLouis meetup is a grassroots community of startup enthusiasts that was founded in late…

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Pick A Founder’s Brain At 1871’s Digital Leaders Office Hours

Entrepreneurs seeking mentorship will have the chance to meet up with some of the biggest…

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adFreeq Is The Anti-Craigslist

While Craigslist has widely been criticized as singlehandedly killing the newspaper industry by taking classifieds…

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One Year Later, T-REx Roars Louder Than City Leaders Expected

The economic activity from within T-REx roars louder than city leaders originally expected, and St.…

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GoSoapBox Celebrates First Year With Juicy Stats

GoSoapBox circumvents the issue of classroom passivity by allowing students and teachers to connect on…

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Grab A Shirtfull Of Arabic Humor At Habibtees

Arab American and entrepreneur Ramzey Nassar has set out to corner an entirely untapped market,…

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Arch Grants Ups The Ante To $1 Million For Next Batch Of Grants

Arch Grants is a non-profit organization that issues grants based on The Arch Grants Business…

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Oregon Venture Activity Down A Whopping 55 Percent

2012 has been a bad year for venture activity in the city of Portland, which…

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Braintree Nabs 2012 Momentum Award

This week the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center held its fifth annual Momentum Awards Dinner to honor…