Why We Go To Conferences

We’ve all had those moments, walking out of conferences with a pocket full of business cards, we get in our cars or onto the train to go home and doubt.

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Entrepreneurs Unpluggd Seeks to Answer the Funding Question on April 26th

Most entrepreneurs have questions about what kind of funding is right for their venture. On April 26th, Entrepreneurs Unpluggd is bringing out the big guns to answer those questions. Join.

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Facebook Fans as Intellectual Property

During a recent online conversation, there was a discussion regarding the actual dollar value of a “Fan” or “Like” received on a company’s Facebook page. While I sat and thought.

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Why Inspirational Speaker-Entrepreneurs Are So Disappointing

What is it that makes a charismatic leader? Is it his or her message, or its delivery? Or is it something else, perhaps the inclination of the audience to believe.

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ZoomShift Helps Balance Employee’s Schedules with Ease

ZoomShift is a web-based staff scheduling tool that simplifies the scheduling process for both managers and staff members in a restaurant or business environment.

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Need More Freelance Leads? Unplugging Can Help

Lately I’ve been doing quite a bit of business development for my freelance services, and its forced me even further out of my box than ever. I’m not speaking of.

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Seth Godin, Look What You’ve Done

I picked up Godin’s book because I’ve never read anything about leadership written for the express purpose of inspiring or instructing or empowering would-be leaders. And I realized, after about forty pages, that all of my criticism of inspirational flimflam such as this, yeah, it wasn’t baseless. Sorry, Seth.

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Hackathon This Friday At Norwestern University

Calling all Chicago-based Coders… Over $5,000 in prizes for building cool stuff in 24 hours during the Hackathon at Northwestern. Best Overall Project: $1,500 Best Use of Hunch API: $1,000.

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Chicago’s inerTRAIN Event Thursday, April 7

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Tech Cocktail Stirs Up Big Sponsors for a Packed House

As a tech writer in Milwaukee, I sometimes find myself forgetting the gigantic scale of the tech world in Chicago, and I long to be reminded. Chicago has always been.

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