It’s Friday again which means it’s time for Follow Friday. Now we don’t do the traditional #FF and shout outs on Twitter. That’s so 2009. Instead, every week we compile a list here at Nibletz that is relevant to our readers and community. Last week we ran a list of 50 500 Startups Mentors which
We’ll bet you can’t guess what this startup incubating at Chicago’s 1871 does. They do it easy, free and actually make you money.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stops by Chicago TechWeek to praise startups, technology, Tech Week and the new digital economy (oh and play some beer pong)
Built in Chicago held their second annual Moxie Awards on Thursday night at the swank Park West. Over 800 entrepreneurs, techies, and local dignitaries packed the ballroom for the awards, which highlight the city’s rapidly growing tech scene. Chicago’s Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who has been in the spotlight lately for his city’s climbing crime rate,
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Robin Johnson talks with us about his Boston startup, Skit, that just graduated from TechStars Cloud in San Antonio.
While human connected fitness monitors fitbit and others battle it out among users, Fitbark is a NY startup that wants to monitor your dog. We talk with Davide Rossi co-founder of Fitbark in this interview.
The new Techstars Chicago announced their first class of 10 fresh startups on Thursday. Here they are.
We’re pretty confident that over the course of the last year Chicago’s thriving tech startup scene has proven the folks at PandoDaily wrong, very wrong. Chicago has one of the fastest growing startup tech scenes in the world. Their 1871 incubator and startup epicenter is amazing, producing hit after hit and now home to TechStars
It’s no secret that debates that fill up a comment section on any blog, tech site, journal or review site, provide a very high level engagement. Not only are the debaters engaging but more and more viewers hone in on the best debates and watch them grow. A Chicago startup, called Birdfeud is taking advantage
It’s hard to believe that less than a year ago Silicon Valley based PandoDaily sent a reporter to Chicago and he came back suggesting that their startup scene was sleepy. Fast forward to February 2013 and we’ve been tracking the startup communities rapid growth here. Earlier this month NBC’s Today Show reported some amazing facts
Today in a blog post penned by Techstars founder David Cohen, he announced that Excelerate Labs, the startup accelerator located at 1871 has become Techstars Chicago. Excelerate Labs was founded by Troy Henikoff and Sam Yagan (OKCupid, SparkNotes and Match.com) in partnership with Sandbox Industries and New World Ventures. We’ve covered several of the Excelerate
The downturn in the economy over the last few years has forced several people, into becoming landlords. People who had a great deal on a house before the economy went down, were forced to start renting property. They wanted to hold onto their property and at the same time make money to pay their mortgages
Monday we reported that Chicago parking startup SpotHero had raised $2.5 million in funding. That was big news for the ExcelerateLabs alumni that’s currently working out of 1871. Now, we’ve heard that another Chicago parking startup called ParkWhiz has raised $2 million dollars. ParkWhiz’ funding round was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners. Hyde Park
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