On Tuesday, May 29, Technori Pitch featured keynote Nick Kokonas – owner of Alinea, Next, and The Aviary. Kokonas is an innovator of fine dining, implementing unorthodox point-of-sale strategy and other mechanisms, to elevate and increase efficency in the dining experience. In so doing he provided world-renown Chef Grant Achatz with a sound business [...]
Great times once again at the Technori Pitch last night. It was another sell out, and featured some of the best presentations to date. As always, the show kicked off with a great keynote speaker, and the following pitches didn’t skip a beat.
Delicious food mixed with technology? Sign me up. That’s exactly what [...]
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been an avid user of buckets. I grew up thinking everyone knew what buckets were and how to use them effectively. Now you might be thinking: “Alright, this kid must have been a farmer or an obsessive sand castle builder.” But no, even though I would use buckets [...]
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On Tuesday, May 29, Technori Pitch featured keynote Nick Kokonas – owner of Alinea, Next, and The Aviary. Kokonas is an innovator of fine dining, implementing unorthodox point-of-sale strategy and other mechanisms, to elevate and increase efficency in the dining experience. In so doing he provided world-renown Chef Grant Achatz with a sound business [...]
Great times once again at the Technori Pitch last night. It was another sell out, and featured some of the best presentations to date. As always, the show kicked off with a great keynote speaker, and the following pitches didn’t skip a beat.
Delicious food mixed with technology? Sign me up. That’s exactly what [...]
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been an avid user of buckets. I grew up thinking everyone knew what buckets were and how to use them effectively. Now you might be thinking: “Alright, this kid must have been a farmer or an obsessive sand castle builder.” But no, even though I would use buckets [...]
What do you think of when you hear the term “UX?” Do you think wireframes and software interface design? It’s true having designers to translate marketing requests into visual representations for your developers is a competitive advantage, but user experience design is more than just visual.
A Systematic Approach to Empathy
In order to truly be [...]
“This is like you’re holding a loaded gun to my head and you’re promising that you won’t pull the trigger,” I said to one of our lead investors with regard to their financing agreement which penalized the company’s success at best and, at worst, sealed our fate.
He reassured me that the investment group was [...]
As an organizer for the next Startup Weekend in Chicago, I’m passionate about bringing together people from a wide array of different backgrounds to support them in building great things.
If you can imagine being able to take a great idea and spin it around into actionable next steps towards a viable business within [...]
It’s Saturday afternoon, and amid cold pizza, micro brews, and half-eaten donuts, teams of three or four sit in front of laptops, heads poking up intermittently to scan a whiteboard full of vision statements, UX questions, and feature lists. This is the scene of the first hackathon at the newly opened 1871, the co-working-space-meets-tech-startup-beehive and Code Academy [...]
Photo credit: Taylor Castle Photography
We’re thrilled to announce the keynote speaker of the next Technori Pitch on May 29, 2012 will be Nick Kokonas, the business visionary behind Chicago’s haute cuisine standard bearers Alinea, Next, and The Aviary.
Foodies across the country are well-acquainted with the iconic names of Alinea, Next, and The Aviary. [...]