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

By Techli Team May 14, 2011

Rona Borre is the president and CEO of Instant Technology, an IT staffing and recruiting firm....

Creating A Buyer Powered Market With Zaarly

By Techli Team May 6, 2011

Bo Fishback is the founder of Zaarly. Previously, Bo was the Vice President of Entrepreneurship for...

From Six Figure Corporate Salary To $0 And A Co-Founder

By Techli Team April 29, 2011

Adam Siegel is the co-founder of Inkling Markets, a company that creates prediction market software...

Funding Your Idea: From Grandpa To Waiting Tables To Raising $500,000

By Techli Team April 1, 2011

Desiree Vargas Wrigley is the co-founder of GiveForward, a website that allows people to crowd fund...

PerkSpot: From Dining Room Table To Doubling Revenue Every Year

By Techli Team March 18, 2011

Christopher Hill is the founder of PerkSpot, a company that manages discount benefit programs for...

Funding Your Business & Mistakes You Should Avoid

By Techli Team March 11, 2011

Carol Roth, business strategist and author of The Entrepreneur Equation. Carol has helped a wide...

From A Desk And Chair In A Server Room To $116 Million In Revenue

By Techli Team February 18, 2011

Shawn Riegsecker is the founder of Centro, a company that makes the buying and selling of online...

How 2 Shoe Enthusiasts With No Programming Experience Built An iPhone App

By Techli Team January 14, 2011

When shoe enthusiasts Brandon Williamson and D.J. Grant decided they wanted to create an iPhone app...

Difference Between Having A Problem And Building A Business Around It

By Techli Team December 31, 2010

When Sean Harper needed a credit card processor for his first company, he signed up for the first...

Why Braintree Founder Bryan Johnson Doesn’t Hire Traditional Managers

By Techli Team December 24, 2010

Chicago based credit card processing company Braintree has an impressive roster of customers -...

How Starting Where I’ve Been Is The Best Mistake Craig Ulliott Made

By Techli Team December 17, 2010

Craig Ulliott started the Facebook app Where I've Been as a side project while he was working as a...

Insights Into 10 Years Of Building Threadless With Co-Founder Jake Nickell

By Techli Team December 10, 2010

When Jake Nickell started the popular crowdsourced t-shirt design site Threadless 10 years ago, he...

Hiring People Before You Have A Job For Them, With Phil Tadros of Chicago-based Doejo

By Techli Team November 29, 2010

Phil Tadros created 13 coffee shops in Chicago and runs his own interactive agency called Doejo. He...

Landing And Expanding Big Name Clients Like Comcast – With Paul Caswell

By Techli Team October 22, 2010

I met Paul Caswell some time ago at a Chicago networking event and was intrigued by his website...

How Eddy Lu Of GrubWith.Us Makes Money Having Dinner With New Friends

By Techli Team October 1, 2010

When Eddy Lu and his business partner moved to Chicago to open a restaurant, they realized they...