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1:Face Watch Indiegogo Nears End At 12 Times Original Goal

November 19, 2012

The 1:Face watch offers consumers the chance to support a range of causes and is set to close out its near two month campaign with a surplus of $275,000.

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I Know Jane Kickstarting Globally Conscious Women’s Shoe

November 19, 2012

This past week Chicago startup I Know Jane began a run on Kickstarter to raise funds for its first line of women’s shoes. Environmentally friendly, globally conscious, comfortable, and portable,.

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Power2Switch Keeps The Lights On This Holiday Season With Charitable Initiative

November 17, 2012

Chicago energy saving startup Power2Switch has unveiled a new program this week that will help struggling families around the city bring their electric bills current with a new program called Kilowatts of Kindness.

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Chicago High Schoolers Bring Fashion App Finalist To World Series of Innovation

November 16, 2012

A wardrobe app conceived by students at Chicago’s Whitney M. Young Magnet High School has become a finalist in the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship’s World Series of Innovation.

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Chicago Invests $1.25 Million To Train Disadvantaged Students For The Jobs Of Tomorrow

November 15, 2012

The city of Chicago announced this week that it will allocate $1.25 million in recovered TIF funds toward training disadvantaged students in innovative manufacturing as part of a plan to create new programs at the Austin Polytechnical Academy.

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Dude, Where’s My Food? GrubHub’s New Track My Grub Feature Solves Our Burning Question

November 14, 2012

Chicago-based GrubHub announces the release of “Track Your Grub” this week, a new feature that allows customers to track their food from the time that the delivery worker leaves the restaurant to the moment that it reaches your door.

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With A Unique Atmosphere, Catapult Chicago Focuses On Startups Growing Together

November 14, 2012

Catapult Chicago touts itself as a space for startups, by startups, utilizing a unique peer-selection process to vet each company that makes its home high up in the 25th floor River North startup community.

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Chicago’s Retrofit Raises $8M Series A

November 13, 2012

The latest round, led by Silicon Valley-based VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, brings the personalized fitness company’s fundraising total to just over $10 million.

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

November 12, 2012

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 Editorial

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

November 11, 2012

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.