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Funding Your Idea: From Grandpa To Waiting Tables To Raising $500,000

Desiree Vargas Wrigley is the co-founder of GiveForward, a website that allows people to crowd…

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Breaking News: Chicago’s FeeFighters Expands To Canada

Toronto (3/31/2011) — FeeFighters, the free online comparison shopping engine that offers businesses a head-to-head…

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Chicago’s Startup Community

As I have met and interviewed all kind of people in Chicago’s startup community and…

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On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker’s Manifesto

FG Reader, whoever you are, this is not another sardonic article from Jason Rowley. Consider…

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Chicago Startup Foodie Registry Expands To San Francisco & New York In One Month

Co-founders Jennifer and Ben of Foodie Registry founded their business in 2010 because of a…

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Foursquare’s Chicago Birthday Bash Doesn’t Disappoint

For those unfamiliar, Foursquare is a geo-location application designed for smartphone users designed to let…

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Small Business & Social Marketing: The Who, What, When, Where, and Why

Walking into a small business with little or no social media presence has been a…

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PostPost: Turn your Facebook Newsfeed into Newspaper

PostPost is a social content curator that takes the content from your Facebook Newsfeed and…

Charlie Sheen’s Intern raising money for Tsunami Relief

A few weeks ago, I applied to be Charlie Sheen's Social Media Intern off the…

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Artsicle Lets You Try (Art) Before You Buy

The struggling artist is commonplace, but have you heard about the struggling curator?  That’s what…

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Chicago’s National Retrofitting Group Sees Light in Commercial Energy Savings

This post written by Brian Koles After slogging away as a well-paid but under-inspired banker…

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Not Another Chernobyl

The still-developing situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after last week’s devastating earthquake is…

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Startup Events in #Dallas this Weekend

There are two startup events in Dallas this weekend - a career fair on Friday,…

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Spreenkler Talent Labs Lets Entrepreneurs See Their Ideas Grow

For developers still in college, the idea of starting their own software or application business…

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Jabber Jury Hiring Developer

C# Web Developer Job description: Jabber Jury is a new social media website where parties…