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Chicago Digital Entrepreneur? You Need To Blog On Built In Chicago

Thursday, June 23rd 2011- Earlier tonight at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Matt Moog hosted his first Built In Chicago event to a packed room of entrepreneurs; so packed that.

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Illinois Launch, Partnering Start-ups With Mentors

The Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership (AEL) hosted the Illinois Launch Event on June, 22 2011, showcasing a series of new start-ups. Each start-up team pitched their idea to a group.

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The State of nonBored-dom

Life in a small town presents the same conundrum over and over again: it can be very boring. The same people doing the same things in the same ways every.

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Sword Diagnostics: Empowering Early Detection For Disease

If you think about it, early detection systems are all around us.  How many times have we heard about smoke detectors saving lives, or weather radars detecting potentially dangerous storms?.

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Daily Designs Give Life to RIPT Apparel

What do playing punk rock and selling t-shirts have in common? Apparently they’re both tons of fun for Chicago transplants and longtime friends TJ Mapes, Paul Friemel and Matt Ingleby, who together recently took their growing start-up RIPT Apparel full time.

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Helping Local Independent Shops Reach Wider Audiences

Lesley Tweedie is the founder of Little Independent, an online marketplace for sale items from independent retail stores. Lesley is an independent store owner herself and owns a local bike shop in Chicago.

I interviewed Lesley to learn where the idea for Little Independent came from, how she created the site, and what she’s learned from being a brick and mortar entrepreneur creating an internet business.

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Startups Seeking Advertisers: Tips for the “Road Less Traveled”

          Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  -Robert Frost First.

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SingleHop Sets The IT Standard

When searching for a dedicated server, there are three things you’re traditionally looking for: reliability, support, and a good network. If you’re a dedicated server provider, you need a little.

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What Are You Drawn.to?

Exploration: it led Columbus to America, and led me to Chicago. Moving was the most enticing part of striking out on my own. When I got there, I looked around.

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Entrepreneurship In A New Chicago Era

For the first time, at least since I was in diapers, we have a new mayor in Chicago.  It’s too soon to tell exactly what this will mean for the.

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