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Startup Voodoo Finalist Servabo Launches Shadow On IndieGoGo

University of Illinois entrepreneurs Dr. Timothy Deppen and Nishana Ismail are the co-founders of Servabo, a company they co-founded dedicated to improving personal safety. Servabo has launched a crowdfunding campaign.

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Knight News Challenge on Libraries awards $3 million for innovative ideas

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation named 22 projects as winners of the Knight News Challenge on Libraries, awarding the recipients a share of $3 million for their.

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CEO Sundays: 7 Business Lessons I learned from the Music Industry

This article comes to us by Todd Dahn, co-founder Platformz As co-founder of the music search engine, Platformz, I am not your typical start-up guy. I consider myself a hip-hop.

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ITP & TechAmerica Announce Support For Illinois Technology and Innovation Caucus

  TechAmerica powered by CompTIA and the Illinois Technology Partnership (ITP) today announced their support of the new Illinois technology and innovation caucus, co-chaired by Illinois State Senator Michael Hastings.

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LearnCore On Winning Startup Voodoo

The following article comes to us from Ethan Linkner, cofounder of LearnCore, who won ‘Most Promising’ at Startup Voodoo As a bootstrapped business, we tend to pass on conferences. They.

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Rithmio Scores Funding To Advance Gesture-Recognition Platform

“The night before the Cozad Competition Finals, my partner, Prashant Mehta, and I talked about our next steps,” said Rithmio’s co-founder Adam Tilton. “My lease was ending; I didn’t know.

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Chicago’s G2 Crowd Creates ‘Yelp’ For SaaS

While there are still some professionals out there using Excel (shudder) as a poor man’s CRM, most of the modern movers and shakers are using some sort of software as.

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Chicago Startup CurbNinja Crowdsources Motorcycle Parking

  Chicago Startup CurbNinja launched this month aiming to make parking your motorcycle/scooter easier than it usually is for city riders. CurbNinja founders (and avid motorcyclists) Fred Lebed and Tim Hines.

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Chicago’s Belly Full…of Rewards!

By Francesca Bacardi, Medill Reports Chicago is full…of rewards. Belly is popping up on counters at businesses across Chicago, and people are tapping into it. Belly Inc. provides rewards of.

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10 Questions to Ask When Looking for a Managed Hosting Provider

Choosing a Hosting Provider can be a daunting task. You’ve made the decision that you don’t want to be in the “server” business and have embarked on the research process..

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