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SweetHack Comes to the Windy City

With Chicago Ideas Week underway the weekend is full of talks, labs, and programs designed to spread innovation throughout the city. Just in case you can’t get enough, SweetHack is.

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Chicago Startup Dabble Challenges Mayor Emanuel to Teach a Class

Chicago startup Dabble has launched a not-for-profit initiative called “Learn From” in an effort to convince Mayor Emanuel to teach a one-time class for the Chicago community. “Learn From is.

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On Resurrecting My Family’s 1984 Macintosh 128K

I wrote the entirety of this article on a computer that is older than I am by about six years. My father was something of an “early adopter” of the.

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Occupy Wall Street Supporters Using More Than Just Twitter

The Occupy Wall Street movement has taken shape as a powerful, yet increasingly convoluted, social movement that is no longer just occupying New York’s Zuccotti Park. The Occupy movement has.

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Turn Styling Into a Piece of Cake With CakeStyle

Chicago-based start-up CakeStyle wants to take the headache out of styling with personalized style kits delivered right to your home. Keep what you like and return the rest.

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Gremln Helps Businesses Sell More with Social Media

Ryan Bell set out to solve a problem he was facing, and it turned out there were many people out there facing the same issue. Ryan is a software developer.

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CEO Sunday: Want to Start a Solopreneur Startup?

Written by Justin Cener, Founder of Crowd Seats For VCs and Angel Investors, there is one factor that truly decides whether or not a business idea is worth investment: the.

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Facebook And Our Brave New World

Google’s unofficial slogan is “Don’t be evil.” I don’t think Facebook has a slogan. In this and myriad other ways, Facebook is post-Google.

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TaskRabbit Interview: From Pet Owner to Entrepreneur

Earle Dickson’s wife was an awful cook — always cutting her finger. Annoyed by the long process of bandaging her wounds, Dickson, a doctor  with Johnson & Johnson, started preparing.

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Utellit Is Taking The “Lameness” Out of Text Messages

“How you doin’?” That phrase sounds a lot cooler when Friends character Joey Tribbiani says it than it does when I type it. This is the problem that a two-month-old.

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