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The Front Brake Light: An Automotive Innovation Takes Shape in the Heart of Flyover Country

When I first landed on frontbrakelight.com to prepare for an interview with innovator Steven Wright,…

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Join the Cause for Entrepreneur’s Day

While this post is not technically about the Chicago startup scene, it is related to…

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How Eddy Lu Of GrubWith.Us Makes Money Having Dinner With New Friends

When Eddy Lu and his business partner moved to Chicago to open a restaurant, they…

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Digital Tour Bus – A Behind The Scenes Look At Your Favorite Bands In Their Natural Habitat

In the days of old the only way to get into a musician's or band's…

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Breaking news: Andrew Mason Announces Grouspawn

Just now on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Andrew Mason of Groupon took…

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Chicago’s Lightbank Offers $5,000 Web Design Award

*Editor's Note: This Press release is being posted exactly as it was sent to me-…

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Breaking News: AOL Buys Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch

AOL has just purchased Michael Arrington's TechCrunch. The deal was just publicly announced onstage at…

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Flyover Geeks Traffic is up, WAY Up! Thanks Flyover Country!

Flyover Geeks launched just over a month ago and the response to what we are…

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Adventures in Epublishing: Step 3

I'm proud to announce that I've completed my first ebook, a YA novel titled Into…

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Her Campus: Informing “Collegiettes” All Over the Country

As the world is anticipating the premiere of The Social Network, another Harvard-based website is…

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Playing Nice

Being a Tech startup reporting on Tech startups has put me in a unique situation;…

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Mike Evans of Grubhub schools Lean Startup crowd

Last night Bernhard Kappe of Pathfinder Development hosted a Lean Startup event in the office…

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Storage by the Box is storage without leaving Home

Entrepreneur founder of Storage by the Box Phil Murphy hit upon his business idea after…

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More Great Stuff on “I Am 4 Kids”

Yesterday Flyover Geeks introduced you to the non-profit I Am 4 Kids and in addition…

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Startup “I Am 4 Kids” snags NFL Superbowl Sponsorship

Entrepreneur Mark Papadas had his “A-HA!” moment in bed one night, unable to sleep. “Like…