The May Report: 4/19/2011: The App House negotiating term sheet with Lightbank; Word is that Stephen Meade is back in Chicago; Sonny Cohen of Duo Consulting has a business card from 1978 from Steve Jobs — what do you think it’s worth on eBay?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Scoop section:

– Briefly noted, by Ron May
– GeoPollster press release
– Charles Stack: Focus group on disability and entrepreneurship at UIC
– Aaron Rudberg responds to Ron’s question about his contact with Thornton
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4th Annual Guys Night Out for the Kids Benefitting the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center

Friday, May 6, 2010 5pm-9pm
Carmichaels Chicago Steak House, 1052 W. Monroe

About Guys Night Out
Don’t miss the chance to hang with “the guys” on Friday, May 6 at Carmichael’s for the 4th Annual Guys Night Out for the Kids. The event kicks-off with an outdoor Happy Hour in the courtyard followed by an indoor barbeque, games, golf pros, hand-rolled cigars and celebrity athlete appearances that last year included Zack Bowman, current Chicago Bear, Jerry Azumah, Kevin Butler, and Jim Thornton all alums of the Chicago Bears, and Ron Kittle and Dan Pasqua, Chicago White Sox alums. There will be a live auction featuring unique items such as a VIP package to a White Sox game including the opportunity to be on the field for batting practice.

All proceeds from the evening benefit the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center (CCAC) for abused children. Founded by Mayor Daley, the CCAC has served over 22,000 abused children and their families since opening its doors in August 2001.

Details
Date: Friday, May 6, 2011
Where: Carmichael’s Steak House, 1052 W. Monroe
Time: 5pm-6pm Outdoor Happy Hour in the Courtyard
6pm-9pm – Party inside!

Tickets: $100

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:06:30 -0400

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First Annual Entrepreneurial Fair-Pair Hosted at IBM’s Innovation Center

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Join us for an evening of networking at our first ever Entrepreneurial Fair Pair. You’ll enjoy a variety of tasty food and drinks while making connections with other business owners, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
You’ll also have a chance to visit with companies that provide a wide range of services needed by small to medium sizes businesses and start ups.

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This event is a one-stop shop featuring 12 companies that support small-to-medium sized businesses. Each business will be paired up with a local food or beverage vendor to provide a tasty sample of their wares while you get a brief presentation from the paired company.

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We have expanded the exhibitor list, which now includes:

* Fee Fighters – Helps small companies find the lowest cost e-commerce merchant provider

* Insperity formerly Administaff – Outsourced HR/Payroll Services

* KnowledgeShift – IVR tool to optimize marketing, training and customer service

* Wells Fargo Bank – SBA Division

* Ungaretti & Harris – Law firm for entrepreneurs offering corporate and intellectual property services

* Funding Feeding Frenzy – Extraordinary Success, LLC

* Frost Rothblatt & Ruttenberg, P.C – CPA firm

* CTCreative – Branding and Marketing Firm

* IBM’s Entrepreneurial Team

* Summit Chicago – Executive meeting and conference space

* Adalyze- technology consulting firm, specializing in working with entrepreneurial and early to mid-stage companies

* Creative Capital – Assists with business planning and loan documents

* USA Voice/Data – A voice over IP and telecom provider

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5 pm – 8 pm
Tuesday, April 19

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The Scoop section:
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Briefly noted, by Ron May

* Chris Rollyson’s 2011 predictions:

globalhumancapital.org/web-3-0-and-social-business%E2%80%942011-predictions-recommendations/

* I have been hearing for about a week now that Stephen Meade is back in Chicago, for how long I know not, but he might show up at the MIT-EF meeting tonight. For those who don’t know, Meade left town years ago and has been in southern California.I got an email stating that Meade wants to talk to me on Skype.

* There is much going on.

One firm, I believe The App House with Jeb Ory and the guy who attended the Funding Feeding Frenzy event on April 4th got $50K in angel funding for a premoney valuation of $500K which is 10% equity given up. Now they are seeking $500K for a pre-money valuation of $2-$3MM. The term sheet they are negotiating is with Lightbank and two of Eric’s and Brad’s minions. The guy I talked to told me that they are not as bossy as a lot of people think. I believe the guy I talked to was Kilton Hopkins, kilton@theapphouse.com.

Another firm at Tech Cocktail, Drink On, is trying to raise $500K for a pre-money valuation of $2MM to $5MM, more like $2MM if I had to bet on it.

I will have a full write-up for you on their preview event on the 4th. Melanie will get off her duff and have some other write-ups for you on Foursquare, etc.

Yes, it’s a short report, but I have to get down to MIT-EF and we have advertisers who want their ads run.

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GeoPollster press release

Subject: FW: GeoPollster press release
Date: 4/18/2011 4:53:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: melanie_adcock@msn.com
To: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com

Way to go! This start up is getting a lot of attention! -Melanie

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:32:18 -0500
Subject: GeoPollster press release
From: adam@geopollster.com
To: melanie_adcock@msn.com

Hi Melanie,

It was nice chatting with you at the Foursquare birthday event. I wanted to let you know that Canada’s Postmedia sent out a press release announcing their partnership with Chicago’s GeoPollster today:

www.postmedia.com/2011/04/18/postmedia-network-teams-up-with-geopollster/

Here is the link to GeoPollster Canada:

geopollster-canada.com/

And here is a link to the National Post’s description of GeoPollster:

news.nationalpost.com/2011/04/05/election-2011-help-your-favourite-party-seize-control-with-geopollster-and-the-national-post/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Adam Kraft, Co-Founder
GeoPollster
adam@geopollster.com
773-456-4199

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Postmedia Network teams up with GeoPollster
Real-time political tool provides a snapshot of voters’ daily lives and party allegiances.

April 18, 2011 (TORONTO) – Postmedia Network Inc. announced that it is teaming up with GeoPollster, a real-time location-based polling provider, to offer Canadians a new way to have their say and support their political party of choice. The result of this collaboration is GeoPollster Canada: Part real-world election game, part mobile polling experiment, that launches this week, and uses the location-based site Foursquare – where people can ‘check-in’ to places on their mobile devices.

First launched on National Post’s website and then on canada.com‘s Decision Canada election site, the GeoPollster site today rolls out to all of Postmedia Network’s daily newspaper websites: Times Colonist (Victoria), The Vancouver Sun, The Province (Vancouver), the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal, the Leader-Post (Regina), The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon), The Windsor Star, the Ottawa Citizen and The Gazette (Montreal).

“Most traditional polls are conducted by cold-calling random Canadians on landline telephones and can miss a growing demographic that relies more on mobile devices and social media to connect with each other and the world,” said Jonathan Harris, Regional Vice President, Postmedia Digital. “It got us thinking: What would polling data look like if anyone with a smartphone could answer ‘who will you be voting for?’ anytime and anywhere they wanted?”

Participating in GeoPollster is easy and fun to do, readers can sign in to the service with their Foursquare account and select which political party they currently support: The Liberals, Conservatives, New Democrats, Green or Bloc Québecois (this information is completely private and will never be displayed). Then, every time they check into a Foursquare venue anywhere in Canada, GeoPollster will count their check-in as a “vote” for that party. Votes are tallied in real-time to determine polling data for each venue and expressed on our live updating map.

Check-in votes help favourite political parties “seize control” of venues such as coffee shops and gyms, cities, provinces and perhaps even the country as a whole. As more check-in data comes in, a unique representation of Canada’s political landscape will begin to take shape on the explorable GeoPollster map.

Throughout the election campaign, our newsrooms will keep a close eye on GeoPollster check-ins and post updates as the dataset evolves. “We’re not sure what we’ll discover, but we’re excited to find out,” said Mr. Harris.

The Foursquare application also allows election polling to be taken one step further by providing a snapshot of voters’ daily lives and party allegiances. “One thing that makes this interesting, and one of my favourite parts of GeoPollster, is that we can actually track political sentiment by different categories,” said Adam Kraft, co-founder of GeoPollster.

“In the United States, pollsters tell us Republicans go to church more than the Democrats. But how do we really know that? With Foursquare, we can verify that they went to church. But in addition, we also know where, when, and how often.”

While the GeoPollster Canada experiment is more of a game than a scientifically accurate survey, it is also a mobile polling experiment. Voter sentiment data is real and informative. It will provide readers with a fun, casual way to support their party of choice, but also to learn more about the value of using location-based services to collect a wide range of mobile polling data.

About Postmedia Network:
Postmedia Network Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Postmedia Network Canada Corp., is the largest publisher by circulation of paid English-language daily newspapers in Canada, representing some of the country’s oldest and best known media brands. Reaching millions of Canadians every week, Postmedia Network engages readers and offers advertisers and marketers integrated solutions to effectively reach target audiences through a variety of print, online, digital, and mobile platforms.

About GeoPollster:
GeoPollster is a Chicago-based startup that builds election games on top of Foursquare. Users can sign up with their Foursquare account and choose their current political affiliation. GeoPollster monitors their check-ins to track political sentiment. By using a location-based service, GeoPollster is able add a geographic layer to traditional polling techniques. GeoPollster can track political sentiment by venue, category, city, region, and country.

GeoPollster was founded in Chicago in 2010 by brothers Adam and Jess Kraft. Adam, a web developer and political junkie, wanted to find a way address problems with traditional polling techniques by using new technologies. He also wanted to find a way to make elections fun and interesting by integrating gaming elements.

For more information:

For Postmedia Network
Phyllise Gelfand
Director of Communications
(416) 442-2936
pgelfand@postmedia.com

For GeoPollster
Adam Kraft
Co-Founder
team@geopollster.com

About Postmedia Network
Postmedia Network Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Postmedia Network Canada Corp., is the largest publisher by circulation of paid English-language daily newspapers in Canada, representing some of the country’s oldest and best known media brands. Reaching millions of Canadians every week, Postmedia Network engages readers and offers advertisers and marketers integrated solutions to effectively reach target audiences through a variety of print, online, digital, and mobile platforms.
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Charles Stack: Focus group on disability and entrepreneurship at UIC

Subject: Focus group on disability and entrepreneurship at UIC
Date: 4/16/2011 2:01:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: cstack@2ci.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com

Hi Ron, hope you are well!

I recently met with researchers at the UIC who are studying disability as it
relates to entrepreneurship. I’ve volunteered to participate in their focus
group, and some of your readership, including yourself, may be interested in
this program. This is the announcement:
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Are you a social entrepreneur with a disability?

Have you been involved with starting up a business or non-profit?
If so, we want to talk to you!

Share your experiences and ideas in a focus group

You are eligible if you: 1) have a disability, 2) live in the Chicagoland
area, 3) are between the ages of 18 and 64, and 4) have been involved with
starting or are currently running a business or non-profit organization.

Where & When?
Focus groups will be held in Chicago this May. You will be able to choose a
date that works best for you. Sessions will last one and a half hours.
Participants receive a $30 gift card.

If interested, please contact Kate Caldwell via email at kcaldw3@uic.edu or
via telephone at (312) 996-4711. She will be able to give you more
information, discuss the project with you in more detail and answer any
questions that you might have.

Participation Through Innovation: Social Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to
Employment for People with Disabilities is a research project at the
University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Disability and Human
Development and the Department of Managerial Studies. This research is
approved by the University of Illinois at Chicago Office for the Protection
of Research Subjects Institutional Review Board: Protocol # 2010-0536.

Interested parties should contact Ms. Kate Caldwell,

(312) 996-4711

PhD Candidate, Disability Studies
Project Coordinator, Participation Through Innovation
President, Disability Studies Student Council
Institute on Disability & Human Development, University of Illinois at
Chicago
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd., #211 A, Chicago, IL 60608
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I hope this is useful to your readers, we disabled businessmen & women do
not have an easy time of it in the best of times, and we usually have
interesting stories to share. I know that you and I have plenty.

Best, Chuck

Charles R. Stack, MPH
Vice President
Constant Compliance Inc.
140 South Dearborn Street
Suite 411
Chicago, Illinois 60603 USA
Cell phone (630) 841-8706
Fax (312) 782-0936
Website: www.2Ci.com/
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Aaron Rudberg responds to Ron’s question about his contact with Thornton

Subject: Re: Aaron, I’ve heard TVT contacted you re: KBA. Is this true and if so, what about?
Date: 4/16/2011 2:59:47 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: aaron@rudberg.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com

Ron,

This is not accurate. I reached out to Tom as I had heard that he had recently married and I had not spoken to him in about 4 years. I was also traveling through KC, but was unable to meet up with him. We spoke for about 30 minutes and he updated me on his personal life and gave me a quick overview of what he was doing at KBA. Sorry I do not have anything more for you.

Aaron

On Apr 15, 2011, at 6:02 PM, RONALDMAY@aol.com wrote:
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