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The May Report: 10/29/2010: Fright Night Delight at Castle Syncubator: Keep the monsters out of your meetings!

The May Report October 29th, 2010

The May Report: 10/29/2010: Fright Night Delight at Castle Syncubator: Keep the monsters out of your meetings! Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com , 773-525-3944. Assistant editor: Melanie Adcock, iPHONE: 312-259-0610, melanie_adcock@msn.com If you missed an article, go here: www.tmronline.com/A55951/tmrarticles.nsf/vwFullNewsletter ______________________________________ ********************************************** THE SYNCUBATOR’S SPOOKTACULAR SPECIAL* If you’re tired of seeing Fred “Lurch” ** Hoch…

The May Report: 10/27/2010: Bill Lederer lives! — and he’s CEO of Kantar Video in New York (wondering what happened to his house in Lake Forest); So you want to be rich? What are your chances? Do you have Russian ancestors? Did you go to Princeton or Dartmouth or Harvey Mudd College?: Melanie Adcock on some great people she has met; Ron May on Katy Lynch, Jess Loren, Jim Mayhercy and the BNC event last night; Has Raman Chadha thrown early stage start-ups under the bus?

The May Report October 27th, 2010

The May Report: 10/25/2010: Chicago-based Cleversafe receives $26MM in Series C funding from lead investor Harrison Street Capital LLC and Sumitomo Bank’s investment arm, Presidio Ventures, joining existing investors New Enterprise Associates, Alsop Louie Partners and OCA Ventures and Chris Galvin joins the board; Melanie Adcock on SES, MoMo, the coolness of Syncubator and more; Dalka “Hungary” to Keynote in Budapest, comes away starving

The May Report October 25th, 2010

The May Report: 10/25/2010: Chicago-based Cleversafe receives $26MM in Series C funding from lead investor Harrison Street Capital LLC and Sumitomo Bank’s investment arm, Presidio Ventures, joining existing investors New Enterprise Associates, Alsop Louie Partners and OCA Ventures and Chris Galvin joins the board; Melanie Adcock on SES, MoMo, the coolness of Syncubator and more;…

The May Report: 10/21/2010: Rolling Meadows-based Adesso Solutions gets $6MM from Seneca Partners; Groupon forms partnership with Ning; Entrepreneur Jim Frey says it is time to move his firm to another state; Is the fix in for CEC’s call for consultant partners?; Layton Olson on Quinn and jobs; Tarkus Murphy on OLED lighting panels; Len Bland tells of an entrepreneur who turned down a $20MM letter of intent

The May Report October 21st, 2010

The May Report: 10/21/2010: Rolling Meadows-based Adesso Solutions gets $6MM from Seneca Partners; Groupon forms partnership with Ning; Entrepreneur Jim Frey says it is time to move his firm to another state; Is the fix in for CEC’s call for consultant partners?; Layton Olson on Quinn and jobs; Tarkus Murphy on OLED lighting panels; Len…

The May Report: 10/20/2010: What’s with the broke State of Illinois giving $3.5MM to Groupon for the creation of 250 jobs?; The first meeting of Tech Pitch, a new SIG inside BNC; Uki Lucas and a share a cab Android app; Software alerting you when they are there when you’ve been put on hold; Kimberly Chulis of Core Analytics tells attendees asking perfectly reasonable & logical questions that she’s “not here to be hauled on the carpet”; The falcon cannot hear the falconer and the center cannot hold at The Trib.

The May Report October 20th, 2010

The May Report: 10/19/2010: Top 10 reasons to attend 4G world; Lee Abrams canned by Randy Michael at the Trib; Howerton very quick to write a blog post on his views of outsourcing; Dalka’s fifteen seconds of fame; Jim Eiden is a Roads Scholar; Michael Arrington on why Groupon is no eBay

The May Report October 19th, 2010

The May Report: 10/19/2010: Top 10 reasons to attend 4G world; Lee Abrams canned by Randy Michael at the Trib; Howerton very quick to write a blog post on his views of outsourcing; Dalka’s fifteen seconds of fame; Jim Eiden is a Roads Scholar; Michael Arrington on why Groupon is no eBay Editor and publisher:…

The May Report: 10/15/2010: The day of reckoning: W. James Farrell, Chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago, says Gov. Pat Quinn is stalling off on the publication of an audit of the state’s finances which has been complete for several months now; IL has the worst pension system in the country; and he’s outta here… to Florida or Costa Rica; Melanie Adcock on government policies that pertain to tech workers; Tom Bennett on the TIF panel moderated by Andy Shaw and sponsored by the BGA which Bennett says dodged some key questions

The May Report October 15th, 2010

The May Report: 10/14/2010: Ed Suda and Avelo Roy announce seed funding for eMotion from Sandbox Industries at MIT-EF meeting; Phil Berman of Applitite corrects mistakes, errors and gaffes in Ed Domain’s article about his firm; What the ITP is doing; Melanie “hands off” Adcock on why single women should attend Tech Cocktail; David Baeckelandt on how much capital may be in the Loop; and watch out if you want to borrow money and you’re a good golfer

The May Report October 14th, 2010

The May Report: 10/12/2010: Skokie-based Nanoink raises $65MM from Lurie Investments; Tebbe further clarifies Troy Henikoff’s departure from OneWed.com; San Yagan and the team at OK Cupid; many upcoming events

The May Report October 12th, 2010

The May Report: 10/11/2010: Mark Tebbe responds to report about what happened to Troy Henikoff at OneWed.com; the rumor that Dwight Badger, CEO of Advanced Equities, was fired appears to be not true; Uki Lukas on Android and Amazon

The May Report October 11th, 2010

The May Report: 10/11/2010: Mark Tebbe responds to report about what happened to Troy Henikoff at OneWed.com; the rumor that Dwight Badger, CEO of Advanced Equities, was fired appears to be not true; Uki Lukas on Android and Amazon Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com , 773-525-3944. Assistant editor: Melanie Adcock, iPHONE: 312-259-0610, melanie_adcock@msn.com If…

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