The May Report: 5/27/2010: Restaurant table service technology ReadyPing wins top spot at MIT-EF White Board Challenge followed by IIT’s I.C.E. and Power2Switch; Stimulating discussion of LP and VC issues at ACG Monday and news I missed: Groupon has offic
Archive for May, 2010
The May Report: 5/24/2010: Excelerate Chicago Incubator Announces 2010 Startups; Frank Gruber can’t spell; Dave Bright — ain’t; Questek’s new site; and Peggy Noonan must be channeling Terry Howerton
The May Report: 5/21/2010: Bullwhips, towel snaps, dinosaur tails, dinosaur dating and breaking the sound barrier; Deals, deals and more deals: Chicago’s NeuroTherapeutics Pharma Inc raises $43MM in Series B; Chicago’s Accretive Health prices at $12/share
The May Report: 5/18/2010: I’ll get guff for this but we have to look at details if we are going to shed more light than heat; one tidbit in the divorce papers is that David and Julie resided together for exactly 175 days or 5 mos. 22 days!; Questions abo
The May Report: 5/17/2010: What’s my line – the Chicago edition, or the rise and fall of Prince David; MIT-EF White Board finalists announced; Takeda cuts hundreds; Two names being floated to replace Prince David
The May Report: 5/15/2010: Special Bulletin: One big fish down, one or more to go: I have been hearing rumors for a few months now that there was trouble in Weinstein city, but Crain’s has now confirmed it: David Weinstein and Jason Felger are gone, leavi
The May Report: 5/12/2010: Here’s a good news story about Chicago high tech and it’s not Web 2.0 or nanotech or even biotech: And the innovation came from within the firm. It’s LED lighting and Molex has won a prestigious award for it; Start-up firms demo
The May Report: 5/11/2010: My wonderful BIO adventure continued; The Geras Mandate and how the ITA awards are pay to play, aka flimflam; Lord on High Barry Moltz; Charles Wu critiques May’s remarks on the broadband stimulus; John Rogers’ bio questioned an
The May Report: 5/7/2010: Hardy Bhatt is royally ticked — with good reason: Cape Cod got more broadband money than the City of Chicago!; Jim Greenwood, the head of BIO, hints to Daley and Quinn that BIO’s return here in 2013 could depend on cleaning up t
The May Report: 5/7/2010: PE and M&A activity would appear to be on the rise; Many letters, a Bob Geras joke and Bethany Sirt on why she blew off Ross and Mike at crowdSPRING:-); Tarkus Murphy, GiveForward.org, BNC Capital Group presenters and more…