6 ways to pitch your business and win
Samir Mayekar, CEO SiNode Systems, is no stranger to pitches. His team has won two major business-plan competitions this year. And the battery-material developer was named an "Up and Comer"...
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Strikingly builds mobile sites in 10 minutes and is trying to get faster
Entrepreneurs wear their failures like badges of honor, proof they've learned business start-up lessons the hard way. But few experience a defeat as helpful as David Chen's. His first business,...
U.S. Rep. Lipinski, research leaders link innovation to economy
The leaders of Illinois' top research institutions called on the U.S. government Tuesday to provide funding for the kind of science work they say leads to economy-boosting innovations. Speaking at...
Internet of things: Turning data into dollars
The business opportunities in the "Internet of things" will be seized by companies that ask better questions and invest in smart people who understand the answers. These and other conclusions...
Your refrigerator is watching you. Now comes the debate over that data
The "Internet of things" is here, with tiny devices talking to other tiny devices, and to not-so-tiny computers, and to the not-even-close-to-tiny corporations that own them, and maybe even to...
Medical apps needed, and not just for ‘hipsters with chronic diseases’
The emergence of mobile medical apps likely will be a game changer for both doctors and, well, the rest of us. But right now the landscape looks more like the...
TextPride’s branded emoji get $20K boost as ‘Shark Tank’ star comes to town
It was Park West on a Tuesday night, a far cry from ABC’s popular series “The Shark Tank.” But there was one shark in the water, and two Notre Dame...
College tech tournament urges celebration of ‘geeks’
To the outside observer, the Illinois Technology Association's Fall Challenge Programming Skills Tournament is one part science test and one part job fair. To Joe Jablonski, it's all about the...
Inventables CEO hopes new milling machine helps shape trend
Most people see a vaguely cool contraption that looks like it belongs in a machine shop when they eyeball the Shapeoko 2 milling machine. Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan, who presided...
Chicago learns to say, ‘I failed! And I feel great about it’
Frank Muscarello felt like a failure. It was 2011, and he was in the crowd at the Chicago Entrepreneurial Center's Momentum Awards dinner. The business he'd spent 16 years building...