On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker’s Manifesto

FG Reader, whoever you are, this is not another sardonic article from Jason Rowley. Consider it a mini manifesto. I want you to reclaim yourself.

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Chicago Startup Foodie Registry Expands To San Francisco & New York In One Month

Co-founders Jennifer and Ben of Foodie Registry founded their business in 2010 because of a problem they experienced when they got married. “We didn’t get married in our early 20’s,.

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Foursquare’s Chicago Birthday Bash Doesn’t Disappoint

For those unfamiliar, Foursquare is a geo-location application designed for smartphone users designed to let people “check in” to locations they are visiting. The social aspect of the application comes.

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Small Business & Social Marketing: The Who, What, When, Where, and Why

Walking into a small business with little or no social media presence has been a new and frightening experience for me as a new independent contractor. It has also been.

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PostPost: Turn your Facebook Newsfeed into a Newspaper

PostPost is a social content curator that takes the content from your Facebook Newsfeed and transforms it into a beautiful, real-time, digital newspaper. I interviewed PostPost’s  Product Manager Bobby Bonaparte a few weeks ago to get the full scoop on the product and how it plans to move forward.

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Charlie Sheen’s Intern raising money for Tsunami Relief

A few weeks ago, I applied to be Charlie Sheen’s Social Media Intern off the cuff. Now, I’m in the third round and doing all I can to be a part of his Guinness World Record-breaking team – which includes raising money for Tsunami Relief in Japan.

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Artsicle Lets You Try (Art) Before You Buy

The struggling artist is commonplace, but have you heard about the struggling curator?  That’s what Alexis Tryon and Scott Carleton, co-founders of Artsicle, discovered when they set out to find.

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Chicago’s National Retrofitting Group Sees Light in Commercial Energy Savings

This post written by Brian Koles After slogging away as a well-paid but under-inspired banker for several years out of college, Chicago native Scott Bernstein decided it was time to.

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Not Another Chernobyl

The still-developing situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after last week’s devastating earthquake is not, I repeat, is not another Chernobyl, despite what headline writers and news anchors would.

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Startup Events in #Dallas this Weekend

There are two startup events in Dallas this weekend – a career fair on Friday, and a two-day Entrepreneur Outbreak on Friday and Saturday. Details after the break.

To stay up to date or post your own startup events in Dallas, go to DallasTechScene.com.

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