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Is Bitcoin An Experiment In Anarchy?

Would You Prefer Cash, Credit, or Bitcoin? If you frequent Hacker News, you’d have noticed in the past several months a lot of buzz about Bitcoin. The blogosphere’s opinion rapidly.

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Taking Technology To The Streets, Chicago Detours

Chicago is a city known for its breathtaking skyline, rich history, and Magnificent Mile.  Millions of tourists visit the city each year, hoping to see the sights and get a.

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CEO Sundays: How To Make An Old Business New Again

Written by Kevin Leland, Co-founder of Pawngo Here at Lightbankwe’re enamored with any business that uses technology to completely upend some old school industry. We did it with freight —.

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Watch Out World “We Are Built In Chicago”

World, I would like to introduce you to Chicago–your sexy, new and exciting entrepreneurial hub. Chicago has been exploding with entrepreneurial activity! The Built In Chicago Launch Party was the kickoff.

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Startups: Start Green, Stay Green

The majority of big business executives still hold the misguided view of ‘green’ initiatives as luxurious public relations tactics rather than opportunities to operate more efficiently (although they’d only admit.

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On The Tragedy of Google

In political science, there is a term, “imperial overstretch”, used to describe the overweening, overreaching behavior of large, “imperial” powers. Such behavior inevitably leads to the imperial power stumbling over.

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Sword Diagnostics: Empowering Early Detection For Disease

If you think about it, early detection systems are all around us.  How many times have we heard about smoke detectors saving lives, or weather radars detecting potentially dangerous storms?.

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Father’s Day: The Entrepreneur Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree

This post is written by Rachel Barach, one of Tech.li‘s California writers. We’ll introduce our California coverage Monday. For now, enjoy this excellent piece on Father’s Day Why do I.

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Daily Designs Give Life to RIPT Apparel

What do playing punk rock and selling t-shirts have in common? Apparently they’re both tons of fun for Chicago transplants and longtime friends TJ Mapes, Paul Friemel and Matt Ingleby, who together recently took their growing start-up RIPT Apparel full time.

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Startups Seeking Advertisers: Tips for the “Road Less Traveled”

          Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  -Robert Frost First.

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