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University of Illinois soil diagnostics startup develops robot that cuts costs by 99%

Emerging from University of Illinois’s EnterpriseWorks, a startup focusing on agriculture managed to drop its sampling costs from $40, to 40 cents, per sample.

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Startup Voodoo Finalist Servabo Launches Shadow On IndieGoGo

University of Illinois entrepreneurs Dr. Timothy Deppen and Nishana Ismail are the co-founders of Servabo, a company they co-founded dedicated to improving personal safety. Servabo has launched a crowdfunding campaign.

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Rithmio Scores Funding To Advance Gesture-Recognition Platform

“The night before the Cozad Competition Finals, my partner, Prashant Mehta, and I talked about our next steps,” said Rithmio’s co-founder Adam Tilton. “My lease was ending; I didn’t know.

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Miss Possible: UI Startup Inspiring Girls to Change the World

  When you were little girl (or boy) what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut? A ballerina? The purple Power Ranger? The women out there.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wants University of Illinois Students To Choose Chicago Over Silicon Valley

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will do almost anything to keep the heavily recruited University of Illinois students from leaving the state to go work in Silicon Valley. This week, he appeared in front of a group of students at the Urbana-Champaign campus, imploring them to consider starting their careers in Chicago.

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CEO Sundays: Witness The Birth Of A Startup

In the fall of 2008, I was entering my senior year of college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With a degree in economics and a passion for global.

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Startup Israel Documentary

With a population of approximately 7 million people, Israel produces more startups per capita than any other nation in the world.

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Tech.li Now Covering Urbana-Champaign

Tech.li is expanding to cover technology and start-ups in Urbana-Champaign. We’d like to introduce our newest writer: Ian Noble was born and raised in Hanover Park, Ill. Eager to escape suburbia,.

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Illinois Launch, Partnering Start-ups With Mentors

The Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership (AEL) hosted the Illinois Launch Event on June, 22 2011, showcasing a series of new start-ups. Each start-up team pitched their idea to a group.

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ITA Fall Challenge: Keeping Top Talent In Our State

One of the biggest challenges facing technology companies right now is the need to acquire and retain top talent. With many graduates leaving Illinois and headed for the coasts, companies.

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