Technori Pitch March 2012 Recap
The Best Pitch Yet.
Technori Pitch February 2012 Recap
If you couldn’t score tickets to Technori Pitch before sell out, to be honest, you really did miss something special. With a keynote by one of the greatest influencers and mentors in the Chicago tech startup scene, as well as a full slate of young companies, Monday night was particularly abuzz. Contributing to the energy…
Meet Todd Holmes: Founder of Goose Island Brewery
CUE BACK TO 1991. George H.W. Bush was president, the Gulf War was wrapping up, future Hall-of-Famer Andre Dawson was in right field for the Cubs, and you could count the number of sites on the World Wide Web on your fingers. Two years after graduating from the University of Kansas, Todd was working in real…
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Photo by Erika Dufour Photography “I WOKE UP ONE MORNING AND I HAD THIS LUMP IN MY LIP. I’m sort of a hypochondriac so I was convinced I was dying. I searched the web and everything said, ‘Oh, you have oral cancer and you’re going to die.’ It kept getting bigger so I went to the…
Technori Pitch January 2012 Recap
A look at January’s Technori Pitch startup showcase at Chase Auditorium..
WE HAVE A PERSON FOR THAT
OpenChime’s Erdem Kiciman wants you to find the best price for nearly every service under the sun.
A Million Cups
It Starts With Coffee.
A Look at Chicago’s Green Startup Community
Article by guest author Alexandra Moree. In recent months, Chicago has been ground zero for the unholy marriage of a fumbling economy, unstable yet steadily increasing energy costs, and an uncertain mayoral transition. This combination of potentially paralyzing factors could leave a young enterprise without the financial and material support necessary to launch a new…
Technori Pitch, November 2011 Recap by Rachel Hyman
This is a guest author piece by Rachel Hyman. On November 29th, a day with gale-force winds, Technori held its fourth-ever Pitch event at the Chase Auditorium. With a sold-out crowd of over 500 and a diverse array of startups pitching, the event was an emphatic success featuring a great lineup of Chicago startups. I…