Red Meat Market is a social commerce site the blends education, content, and events all tailored to people who love red meat. The site sells meat too, but at its core, Red Meat Market is a community.
Chicago-based startup BitBend wants to save travelers from having to make snap decisions about flights. Instead of operating under a flash sale model like many online travel booking services, BitBend allows travelers to hold a flight for weeks until they finalize travel plans.
Belly’s iPhone app was downloaded 50,000 times since the iOS 6 release, marking a huge week for a relatively new company that was founded in Chicago in late 2011. The company has raised $12.9 million from some of the biggest names in venture capital.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will do almost anything to keep the heavily recruited University of Illinois students from leaving the state to go work in Silicon Valley. This week, he appeared in front of a group of students at the Urbana-Champaign campus, imploring them to consider starting their careers in Chicago.
According to Chicago-based startup CakeStyle, the average woman spends 170 hours per year shopping. For busy professional women, this is time that could be spent growing their companies, or launching new ventures. CakeStyle takes the concept of saving time for busy women one step further by becoming a personal style assistant that delivers fashions finds that are suited according to a woman’s personal style.
Virtual grocery stores have been popular in Asia long before we considered launching them here in America. Thanks to internet grocer Peapod, cities across the U.S. will soon have virtual grocery stores in hundreds of commuter rail stations in Boston, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
In the fall of 2008, I was entering my senior year of college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With a degree in economics and a passion for global.
Chicago-based student-run startup Briteseed is poised to end accidental surgical bleeding with SafeSnips.
Browsing the photos of double bacon-cheese burgers, mint-chocolate milkshakes, and other delicious foods on FoodSpotting, your mouth can’t help but salivate. But with no ordering capabilities, Foodspotters kept us hungry and hanging. Until now, that is.
The assumption in e-commerce has always been that women spend time shopping online for clothes and men, well, don’t. Chicago-based startup StyleSeek aims to turn that idea on its head.
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