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Social Media Economics: The Science for Startup Success 2

By Techli Team December 17, 2010

The web is becoming social, and startups are jumping to capture the investment dollars. With business models and advertising effectiveness in question, it's hard to valuate such ventures -- unless you're versed in Social Media Economics. (more…)...

Sign Up and Get Poggled 3

By Michelle Doellman December 17, 2010

Ever had a group of friends who wanted to head out for a night on the town, only to discover...

Lean Startup: Pathfinder’s Todd Wyder On Customer Acquisition 4

By Edward Domain December 17, 2010

December 16, 2010 Lean Startup Chicago hosted their latest installment of their excellent speaker...

First Funding Feeding Frenzy a Success 5

By Techli Team December 16, 2010

Entrepreneurs often have it rough. Running on passion and personal motivation they wonder if they...

TIP Solutions On A Tear; $650K Raised To Date 6

By Edward Domain December 15, 2010

John Braun is a happy man these days. As President of Chicago area based TIP Solutions he has not...

Thiel’s 20-20 Vision: Stop Out of College 7

By Jason Rowley December 14, 2010

The average cost of a college education at a private institution is just short of $37,000 per year,...

HarQen’s Application Suite Reenergizes Voice Conversations 8

By Techli Team December 13, 2010

HarQen, on Milwaukee’s east side offers a suite of applications which is utilized by everyone...

Path.com: Not that Impressive 9

By Techli Team December 12, 2010

A new "personal network" called Path launched about a month ago to great fanfare. It's backed by...

Insights Into 10 Years Of Building Threadless With Co-Founder Jake Nickell 10

By Techli Team December 10, 2010

When Jake Nickell started the popular crowdsourced t-shirt design site Threadless 10 years ago, he...

Taxi Share Chicago App On Android 11

By Techli Team December 10, 2010

Would you share a cab with a stranger for half the fare? That’s the premise behind Taxi Share...

ITP Releases Survey Results 12

By Edward Domain December 9, 2010

By Lindsay Mosher, head of the Illinois Technology Partnership Major Investments Planned Will...

Google’s Algorithm is Outdated in the Age of Social 13

By Techli Team December 8, 2010

Back in 2000, it made perfect sense to rank sites by inbound links. If a lot of people were linking...

Rocked The Recession This Friday; Last Chance For Tickets! 14

By Edward Domain December 8, 2010

Rocked The Recession is this Friday, December 10th at the Chicago SYNC Center! This is your last...

Lab42 15

By Jason Rowley December 7, 2010

Lab42 is one of the young, nimble startups carving out a niche in Chicago's growing tech community....