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The Lawyer Market competed and came in first place in the consumer/web technology group of the 2010 University of San Francisco (USF) International Business Plan
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Axcelerate - venture acceleration lab accepting applications through April 2, 2010...
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Avelo & team are finalists for the $ 800,000 prize
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/smallbusiness/0904/gallery.startup_showdown_2009.smb/7.html
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To continue the dialogue from our great meeting .....
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Entrepreneur Meghan Hoover quoted in article about startuping a company during economic downturns.......
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?articleId=30953
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Salare Security LLC announced that they have won a STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) Phase I grant from the US Army Research Office titled: "Automatic Identification & Mitigation of Unauthorized Information Leaking from Enterprise Networks".
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Check out Meghan Hoover's comments on the current funding climate for startups in Smart Money...
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Athena introduces FirePAC – for simplifying firewall configurations, supporting device migration and automating firewall reviews...
Developed to address the operational needs of network engineers, FirePAC is available as downloadable software for free evaluation and online purchase
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Hi everyone, we hope that you are having an excellent summer! In lieu of a full blown newsletter this month we wanted to share with you a recent article written about Commuter Advertising by the Dayton Business Journal. It is interesting to read from the perspective of the transit agency in how Commuter Advertising can help impact their revenue streams.
http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2008/08/25/story4.html?b=1219636800^1688240&surround=etf
Sincerely,
Commuter Advertising
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Hosted LABS (1/06 presenter) was profiled in the "Fresh Entrepreneurs" section of Business Week magazine.
The idea of using data centers ’round the world to accommodate huge numbers of Web surfers isn’t new. Akamai, for instance, which provides and manages servers, has done far-flung storage of “read-only” online content since 1999. Now, native Chicagoan Jason Rexilius is using the same concept for sites that require user input, such as blogs and small online stores.
Rexilius, 34, started HostedLABS in Evanston in 2004 and spent the next 2½ years and $25,000 of his own money developing software. For a fee, HostedLABS will place a client’s data—sittercity.com and complaints.com are two customers—in data centers around the world, so that when too many people access the site from one location, the site won’t shut down. Instead, visitors can continue to access it via backup repositories.
Revenue came to $250,000 in 2007. But Rexilius predicts
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Metropolitan Brewery (11/07 presenter) was the subject of a nice story in the 7/24/08 edition of the Chicago Reader magazine.
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Metropolitan Brewery (11/07 presenter) now has an address
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Commuter Advertising (/5/08 presenter): "The Big Idea Forum was a big help......."
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American BioOptics (ABO) (10/07 presenter), in conjunction with Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, received on September 28, 2007, a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award from the National Institutes of Health. The award enables ABO to perform clinical trials using its advanced biomedical optics technology, which can identify patients at risk for colon cancer, and has the potential of improving the effectiveness of the millions of colonoscopies performed each year.
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Freerain Systems (02/06 presenter) acquired by ESM Solutions....
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