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Y Combinator Now Accepting Applicants With No Idea

Startup accelerators like Y Combinator and Techstars are notorious for accepting a team into the program even if they aren’t sure that their idea will work.  Both Paul Graham of.

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Tech.li Exclusive: Chicago’s TechNexus Announces Roster of Spring 2012 Collaborators

TechNexus, Chicago’s first co-working space for tech entrepreneurs, announced today its spring 2012 cohort of collaborating companies.

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Visual.ly Takes On Designers; Pros Not Worried

What do cobblers, vinyl record manufacturers and blacksmiths have in common?  Technological progress has frequently usurped once-mighty industries. Will skilled workers be the next to suffer, as inexpensive artificial intelligence.

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Dining Dialog Wins $50,000 MillerCoors Grant

Dining Dialog, a startup based in Bolingbrook, IL, recently won the 2012 MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneur Series grant of $50,000. The grant has been awarded each year since 1999 “to help.

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Chicago Techweek Gets New Executive Director; Pasky Out

Arabella Santiago has been appointed the new Executive Director of Chicago tech conference Techweek.  The Board of Directors at Techweek asked the former Executive Director, Jon Pasky, to step down.

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Instagram May Soon Be Valued At $500 Million

Instagram, the mobile image sharing app, is rumored to soon secure $40 million in financing. The new round of investors would bring the company to a total value of $500.

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Foursquare Hours – The Yelp Killer?

Foursquare announced a new feature for merchants this week just in time for SXSW: hours. This comes two months after the release of menus for merchants, which allows users to.

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SXSW: “Don’t Cut Your Toenails During a Pitch,” And Other Advice by Oren Jacob

As an ex-“entrepreneur in residence” with August Capital, and the current CEO of  ToyTalk, Oren Jacob knows more than a thing or two about how startups get funded.  Having sat on.

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10 VC Blog Posts A Founder Can’t Miss

Entrepreneurship is a lonely road. Ask any entrepreneur and they’ll tell you about the doubt, the long hours, and the uncertainty that they suffer at 3 am when the world.

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Flypad: Here, Take My iPhone And Drive

[vimeo id=”35823386″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Orthogonal Labs’ Flypad is based on an interesting idea: Using the accelerometer and touchscreen built into a smart phone to control other devices. And though gaming.

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