MarkITx Raises $1M From Chicago Area Angels
November 8, 2012MarkITx, a Chicago-based B2B market for selling second-hand IT equipment, has raised just over $1 million in seed funding this week from area angel investors.
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Why Entrepreneurs Hate Wantrepreneurs
November 8, 2012Ok everyone, I’ll admit it. I used to be a wantrepreneur. A wantrepreneur is someone who attends all of the startup events, meetups, and participates in online discussions about entrepreneurship without actually being an entrepreneur.
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Salute The Troops By Playing Videogames This Veteran’s Day
November 8, 2012Charitable organization Operation Supply Drop will be holding an 8-Bit Salute to Veterans in Chicago and other select cities this month, raising money to ship gaming packages to soldiers serving overseas.
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Sick Of Election Results? Track Legislation Instead With TrakBill
November 7, 2012A new startup called TrakBill is a search engine that will provide all of the information that both citizens and lobbyists need to know to track the legislative action around specific issues like education.
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St. Louis
Evtron’s CEO On Facebook Acquisition Rumors
November 7, 2012Today is one of those days I get to have a laugh at mainstream media (it happens often). Consider Evtron: Techli first reported on Evtron here: 19 Year Old Wunderkind.
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CollabNet And UC4 Software Partner To Automate Enterprise DevOps At Scale
November 6, 2012CollabNet a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM, and UC4 Software, the leader in IT Process Automation, are announcing a partnership today that will help IT organizations achieve enterprise DevOps at scale.
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How A Startup Can Change The Election
November 6, 2012Raising money via Twitter is attractive to a candidate rather than other fundraising options because political fundraising is about convincing your friends, family and like minded people to invest in an idea and a person.
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St. Louis
Onshore Outsourcing Fights The “Walmart Effect” In Rural America
November 5, 2012Onshore Outsourcing’s mission is to prevent foreign outsourcing by encouraging companies to outsource jobs to rural areas where jobs are needed the most.
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Elephrame: An Ideas Network Grows In Chicago
November 5, 2012Originally launched as an “encyclopedia of ideas” in January of last year, Elephrame has since become a space online where users can voice their opinions and delve into the world views of others on any topic.
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Microsoft Vs. Apple: A Tale of Two Stores
November 5, 2012Last weekend, I wandered into the Microsoft store with my husband and a friend to witness the fanfare of the Windows 8 release on Microsoft’s home turf. What I found was unexpected.
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