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Billiken Angels Network Drops St. Louis University Requirement

The Billiken Angels Network, part of Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business, announced this week that it is dropping the requirement that all investments must have founders with ties to the university as students, former students, faculty, or staff.

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MarkITx Raises $1M From Chicago Area Angels

MarkITx, a Chicago-based B2B market for selling second-hand IT equipment, has raised just over $1 million in seed funding this week from area angel investors.

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Salute The Troops By Playing Videogames This Veteran’s Day

Charitable organization Operation Supply Drop will be holding an 8-Bit Salute to Veterans in Chicago and other select cities this month, raising money to ship gaming packages to soldiers serving overseas.

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Sick Of Election Results? Track Legislation Instead With TrakBill

A new startup called TrakBill is a search engine that will provide all of the information that both citizens and lobbyists need to know to track the legislative action around specific issues like education.

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CollabNet And UC4 Software Partner To Automate Enterprise DevOps At Scale

CollabNet a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM, and UC4 Software, the leader in IT Process Automation, are announcing a partnership today that will help IT organizations achieve enterprise DevOps at scale.

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How A Startup Can Change The Election

Raising money via Twitter is attractive to a candidate rather than other fundraising options because political fundraising is about convincing your friends, family and like minded people to invest in an idea and a person.

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TruPulse Turns Any Flat Surface Into Speaker

Through the power of vibration, the TruPulse speaker can make make glass, wood, plasterboard, and many other resonation-capable surfaces sing.

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Shiftgig Raises $3M Series A

This week Shiftgig, headquartered at the Catapult coworking space in Chicago’s River North community, announced that it has just closed a series A round of funding.

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Talk Back to Advertisers With AdYapper

Have you ever noticed an ad that either rocked or annoyed you so much that you wanted to talk to the brand directly about it? Turns out, you’re not alone. If you’ve ever watched the SuperBowl, you know that spectators get just as excited about the ads as they do about the football game. The next day the internet blows up with conversation about the ads. AdYapper is a new platform that lets you talk to brands and agencies about their ads recently launched to the public.

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Curalate’s ‘Promote’ Quadruples Followers In Pinterest Sweepstakes

Curalate, the first marketing platform for the visual web, is announcing the success of the company’s Promote tool, which recently helped Carnival Cruise Lines quadruple followers during an 11-day promotion on Pinterest.

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