The May Report: 3/31/2010: Out of the hospital and pretty much back in the saddle; Chicago start-up: The Lawyer Market; CAAT update; M-Via and Chris Sorensen; and one indication that Willinger is a social media addict
Archive for March, 2010
The May Report: 3/29/2010: Envestnet to raise $100M in IPO; Hostway raises $110MM to support continued growth; Molex & Bridgelux partner to create LED Light Module to displace traditional lighting with plug-and-play solution; Groupon, Poggled, and Other R
The May Report: 3/27/2010: Novarra acquired by Nokia; Vibes buys Zeep Mobile; Kristi Lafleur named as first woman to head IL Tollway Authority in 57 years; Visionary Mobile event April 1st
The May Report: 3/23/2010: Good news for not giving up and for some flexible thinking and bad news for branding and NMH
The May Report: 3/19/2010: Avery Cohen on the MIT-EF meeting; Twitter’s secret sauce: market research; Entrepreneurs use trade secrets over patents; the two camps at Slack, factoring in 5-7% profit in your SBIR application; Chicago represented by more tha
The May Report: 3/18/2010: Chicago-based Fund, Lightbank, founded by Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky to Invest Up To $100 Million in Technology Start-Ups; Two bootstrappers, Jeff Judge and Chris Hill, can take it or leave it when it comes to raising money
The May Report: 3/12/2010: The top five firms of the midVentures 25 were: bln.kr, G2fm, Genlighten, JoeMetric, and WatermelonExpress and the winner of $16,000 in cash and prizes was…. All around a very successful event in a great space
The May Report: 3/10/2010: Bulletin: Groupon finds coupons have hidden fees — and for some news: a competitor of Groupon’s, YouSwoop, settles a class action case with Edelson McGuire, the same law firm that is suing Groupon
The May Report: 3/8/2010: A very full report: Did The Next Big Sound move to Boulder?; Appolicious got a total of $2.07MM, with $1.5MM coming in December; plus they just bought AppVee; Avery Cohen on The Big Ooga; Mike Doyle bolts ChicagoNow with some cho
The May Report: 3/3/2010: Drew Clark to lead state’s broadband development work; A tiny firm in Vinton, Iowa, AlphaGen Materials, which makes a powder and a spray gun, deep in due diligence with Kleiner Perkins and the undisputed winner of the BNC Capital