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Archive for March, 2011

The May Report: 3/13/2011: FanFound raises $500K in angel funding and will launch a new platform on A;ril 11; Melanie Adcock on Koelnmessa’s Darrin Stern vs. JunoWallet’s Chris Sweis. Who Screwed Whom over in a Sponsorship Deal? We Bring you the latest Dirt; Where Thomas Volney Thornton — and now his new wife Lindsay — go, trouble is sure to follow: Thornton brings “the Chicago way” to the state of Kansas: Kansas Bioscience Authority officials’ raises, bonuses scrutinized; Chicago’s entitlement culture; and Ron takes a stab at listing first time deals, follow-on funding, and firms sold in the last year or so; Lundin and Willinger back to self-promotion as their talk goes well at SXSW

The May Report March 13th, 2011

The May Report: 3/13/2011: FanFound raises $500K in angel funding and will launch a new platform on A;ril 11; Melanie Adcock on Koelnmessa’s Darrin Stern vs. JunoWallet’s Chris Sweis. Who Screwed Whom over in a Sponsorship Deal? We Bring you the latest Dirt; Where Thomas Volney Thornton — and now his new wife Lindsay —…

The May Report: 3/11/2011: What a mind boggling day — and very tragic! We have a kerfuffle in the making with Juno Wallet, Chris Sweis and Darrin Stern concerning a mobile event in which somebody done somebody wrong — Melanie will have a full report on it tonight for you; Lundin passes on Frank Gruber, picks J. Willy as co-presenter at SXSW — meanwhile Harper Reed and Jon Pasky are there, but Brian Mayer has flown the coop at midVentures for a start-up; IU math professor credited with solving vexing math puzzle concerning the Erdös distinct distance problem in the plane

The May Report March 11th, 2011

The May Report: 3/8/2011: Sue Khim’s EduLender raises $1MM; Future Simple raises $1.1MM; Winners of the Clean Energy Contest: Clean Urban Energy $75K; NextGen Solar, $25K; New board member for LightBank; 44 companies to present to more than 80 VCs in Kansas City and only one of the InvestMidwest presenters is from Chicago… and I have an ESRP surgical procedure in an hour so no time for organizing or a Table of Contents

The May Report March 8th, 2011

The May Report: 3/7/2011: Frank Gruber missed his shot at speaking before SXSW — see his Texas Two Step explanation below about how he was not really in the bottom 90% of those who applied to speak, i.e., the losers; Once again, after the ITDA, the ITA and the UIC OTM, Kathy Liu flew the coop — not sure if her reason was Nancy Sullivan; Mike Rhodes says that he did things “a** backwards the first time” and this time he plans to raise the fund 1st before opening an office — meanwhile there are many things we don’t know yet and now Rhodes has Chicago institution Ruth Ratny on his case since he was helping her with the Bob Love documentary and behind the scenes, it may be Jessica Popov who is engineering this; I had wanted to go 1 full yr. without hospitalization, but alas, I msde it only 236 days…

The May Report March 7th, 2011

The May Report: 3/7/2011: Frank Gruber missed his shot at speaking before SXSW — see his Texas Two Step explanation below about how he was not really in the bottom 90% of those who applied to speak, i.e., the losers; Once again, after the ITDA, the ITA and the UIC OTM, Kathy Liu flew the…

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