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HelloWallet: Democratizing High-Quality Financial Guidance

While most everyone needs it, only 20% of Americans have access to high quality financial advisors. HelloWallet, a startup founded by  former Brookings Institution scholar Matt Fellowes in 2009, aims to change.

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“Find & Replace” Function For Cells Speeds Up Genetic Research

ArborVita Associates (AVA), wants to disrupt the current process for performing genetic experiments on mice in order to facilitate faster genetic research that will lead to more discoveries and break-throughs.

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Are You Popular? 200 Startups Want To Give You Equity For Free

Imagine it’s February 4, 2004. Mark Zuckerberg approaches you about beta testing a new product he just launched, The Facebook. As an early adopter your job will be to test.

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Microsoft Announces Kinect Accelerator

Microsoft is teaming up with Techstars to turn Kinect hackers into a startup founders. Microsoft will choose ten finalists to be a part of “Kinect Accelerator”  – a three month incubator.

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5 Lessons in Fear for Female CEOs

Being the co-founder and CEO of an early-stage tech startup is hard. It means late nights, early mornings, lots of sacrifice and fear. There is another layer of difficulty added.

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Founder Stories From Kris Petersen

Entrepreneur and good human being Kris Petersen started his career as a cog in the wheel of corporate America. His dark-side experience includes over five years of technology consulting for.

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Seekyt Wants to Pay You for Writing

By building an online hub for writers to publish articles and earn ad revenue, Seekyt has made it easy for people to make a few extra bucks in their spare time.

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Gamer In Chief of the London Tech Scene

Kam Star, founder & CEO of PlayGen, the leading British games and gamification development studio, has seen a few things. Star has been in the Shoreditch area of London since.

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MELD – A New Model For Finding Tech Talent in Chicago

I have recently been discussing the challenges that Chicago startups are facing when looking for tech talent. On Wednesday night, I had the opportunity to attend an event designed to address this chasm, MELD..

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Restoring Trust, Renewing Hope: Rebuilding an Industry

It is an interesting theme, coming from a company one might consider the world’s largest startup.  After all, isn’t that what General Motors is?  After all, straight out of bankruptcy,.

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