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Project Fixup: Chicago Dating Startup Does The Dirty Work For You

Chicago entrepreneurs Sarah Press and Alan Illing are fed up with the aimlessness of current online dating websites, and have recently launched the new dating service that does the matching and planning footwork work for you.

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CEO Sundays: Abby Ross On How How To Amp Your Apps

While smartphones abound, apps are flooding the technology and social media gates. There are apps to pass your time, document your time—in an array of eye-pleasing filters, of course—and save.

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JustBecause Helps Startups Reach New Customers With Gifting App

JustBecause gives Facebook friends the chance share deals from a growing number of the biggest startups around, some valued at up to $100, for only $1 a piece.

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In Defense Of PRServe

Late this week, a company called PRServe was banned from pitching stories to TechCrunch after Alexia Tsotsis banned the pay per placement business model. Here at Techli, we are welcoming these pitches. Here’s why.

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Indiegogo Campaign Kicks Off To Better Lives of Women In Rural India

Azadi, a Chicago startup based out of 1871, is looking to bring a low-cost, completely biodegradable menstruation pad to India’s rural areas and solve the issue keeping so many women from leaving their homes each month.

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Billiken Angels Network Drops St. Louis University Requirement

The Billiken Angels Network, part of Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business, announced this week that it is dropping the requirement that all investments must have founders with ties to the university as students, former students, faculty, or staff.

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MarkITx Raises $1M From Chicago Area Angels

MarkITx, 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

Ok 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

Charitable 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

A 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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