The May Report: 7/13/2011: The Russians are coming! ADT receives $5.2MM in Series D funding lead by Moscow-based S-Group Capital Management; Mike Freud wants to talk to firms seeking funding with $2MM or more in revenue; Calling all investors: Announcing the formation of the Rhodes to Nowhere-Bland Fund; Have Polsinelli Shughart attorneys Edward E Frizell,…
Archive for July, 2011
The May Report: 711/2011: The sixth Bar Camp in Chicago, Bar Camp 2011 draws about 100 on Saturday and 60 on Sunday in an interesting location; a talk that you should know about — especially if you’re a developer — on Apps for Metro Chicago; Note to David Carman, Len Bland, Mike Rhodes, Terry Howerton…
The May Report: 711/2011: I really don’t know what to say or think. There is one name on the vetted and refereed Tech Week list of the “100 most innovative names in Chicago technology” that is not like the others and clearly doesn’t belong there — you may be able to guess which one it…
The May Report: 7/7/2011: BarCamp 2011 starts at noon on Saturday; Tech Week only a few weeks away; BNC VC Group after Locke Lord dumped Len Bland starts up again with Polsinelli next week; While Terry Howerton primps for his next appearance on Fox News, Amazon.com takes 700 jobs and plops them in INDIANA; Alex…
The May Report: 7/6/2011: The ghost of Maverix.net: “Soon after Jerry’s death in 1998, his sons Tom and Jim launched a venture of their own. They called it Maverix. The idea was to provide high-speed Internet to Midwestern businesses. With $42.5 million in raised capital ($2 million from the brothers themselves), they leased a swanky…
The May Report: 7/1/2011: Bruce Montgomery, sorry to steal your header but Accel to pump $34M into Chicago online payments firm Braintree!; California to now collect sales tax on retail transactions and let me ferme la bouche… Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com , 773-525-3944. If you missed an article, go here: www.tmronline.com/A55951/tmrarticles.nsf/vwFullNewsletter _______________________________ *************************************************…