Building A Start-up Team (Tips From Dating)

Sunshine. Rainbows. Butterflies. We all know that giddy feeling.  Finding the “right one” makes all the difference. As entrepreneurs, we can take a few tips from dating to help us.

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Travel Connected With gtrot

gtrot, short for globetrotting, gtrot makes it easy to share travel plans, collect advice from the people you trust and connect with friends and deals in your destination.

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Tripeezy: Travel Sharing Made Simple

While traveling around the world, Paige Brown wanted to share her experiences with friends and family, but couldn’t without paying for international access to her smartphone.  To solve this problem,.

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Tabblr: Activity Finder For The Here and Now

Who among us is not occasionally faced with the problem of how to spend the next few hours, the afternoon, the day? This being Chicago, something is happening pretty much at every moment, but until now there was no one to tell you what, only where.

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Flyover Geeks: New Name? Full Team? B O O M!

Since I launched Flyover Geeks in August of last year, (for a trip down memory lane, see here and here) coverage of the tech scene in Chicago and beyond has.

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Buzzwords vs. Mom (Mom Should Win…)

Sometimes, one gets the feeling that entrepreneurs speak a different language from everyone else. Tech entrepreneurs especially. There are many market segments, and some of those have their own sub-segments..

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From The Basement To $17 Million In Revenue with Instant Technology

Rona Borre is the president and CEO of Instant Technology, an IT staffing and recruiting firm. After running a $30 million book of business at a global recruiting firm, Rona left to start Instant Technology with the goal of adding a personal touch to the staffing industry.

What began as a startup in her basement has grown to more than 30 employees and almost $17 million in revenue. I interviewed Rona to learn the story of how she built Instant Technology from the ground up.

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Refynr: Eliminating Clutter from your Social Media Streams

For heavy users of social media, navigating Facebook and Twitter content can be like drinking water from a fire hose. That’s why Austin-native Aaron Longnion founded Refynr – a web app.

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Creating A Buyer Powered Market With Zaarly

Bo Fishback is the founder of Zaarly. Previously, Bo was the Vice President of Entrepreneurship for the Kaufman Foundation. Zaarly was created a LA Startup Weekend just a few months ago in February 2011, and is moving at the speed of light building a team, raising tons of capital, and preparing to create an innovative new e-comemrce platform.

I interviewed Bo to learn the story of Zaarly and share experiences from his vast history as an entrepreneur.

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Commerce App Zaarly Helps Get Things Done

While in Chicago this past week, I attended the Chicago street-team launch of Zaarly, and I have to say that I was impressed at the concept. Zaarly is an application.

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