TIP Solutions On A Tear; $650K Raised To Date

John Braun is a happy man these days. As President of Chicago area based TIP Solutions he has not only completed raising $650K in funding but also has been winning.

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Thiel’s 20-20 Vision: Stop Out of College

Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, billionaire venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and early Facebook investor, does not play around when it comes to inspiring young people to build their ideas into companies. His eponymous Thiel Fellowship promises twenty entrepreneurs under twenty years old cash grants of up to $100,000 to do so.

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HarQen’s Application Suite Reenergizes Voice Conversations

HarQen, on Milwaukee’s east side offers a suite of applications which is utilized by everyone from Human Resources staff to call center managers, and from genealogists to singles.

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Path.com: Not that Impressive

A new “personal network” called Path launched about a month ago to great fanfare. It’s backed by the likes of Shawn Fanning and Ashton Kutcher, so it’s gotta be good, right? Debatable.

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Insights Into 10 Years Of Building Threadless With Co-Founder Jake Nickell

When Jake Nickell started the popular crowdsourced t-shirt design site Threadless 10 years ago, he thought he’d be holding down a job nowadays, with some creative hobbies on the side. After all, Threadless was only a hobby for Jake back then.

Threadless is an overnight success that took 10 years to build. Jake didn’t give himself a salary for 2 years. In the beginning, Jake would go to the post office during his lunch hour to ship out the shirts that people bought. When an employee needed a soundproof booth to start a podcast, Jake suggested they find an Airstream for the office on eBay (and they did).

I interviewed Jake to get some insight into how he built Threadless over the past 10 years into the success it is today, and explore some of the ups and downs along the way.

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Taxi Share Chicago App On Android

Would you share a cab with a stranger for half the fare? That’s the premise behind Taxi Share Chicago, an android app that makes it easy to find others going.

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ITP Releases Survey Results

By Lindsay Mosher, head of the Illinois Technology Partnership Major Investments Planned Will Spur Tech Hiring Click here to view the full results of the survey: Jobs Survey Results CHICAGO,.

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Google’s Algorithm is Outdated in the Age of Social

Back in 2000, it made perfect sense to rank sites by inbound links. If a lot of people were linking to it, it must be good right? Billions of dollars and queries later, the answer to that question is apparent. Google’s algorithm is phenomenal, but 2010 deserves better.

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Rocked The Recession This Friday; Last Chance For Tickets!

Rocked The Recession is this Friday, December 10th at the Chicago SYNC Center!

This is your last chance to buy tickets for what promises to be a great day of speakers and panels geared to entrepreneurs!

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Lab42

Lab42 is one of the young, nimble startups carving out a niche in Chicago’s growing tech community. Specifically, Jonathan Pirc and Laura Rokita, the team behind Lab42, are forging ahead to establish an altogether new niche. Lab42 is market research reinvented for the social-media landscape.

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