Jan 28, 2011

Pek Pongpaet is a full time coder by day and an entrepreneurial coder by night. At the end of last summer he participated in midVentures Hackathon and came up with a new spin on book sharing called ShelfLuv. “Since I started ShelfLuv,” said Pek, “Google introduced instant search and then some Stanford kids came out with ‘YouTube instant search’ and...

Sep 28, 2010

Flyover Geeks launched just over a month ago and the response to what we are doing has been fantastic. For awhile, everyday my first stop since launch was Google Analytics to see how the site was doing. Every day I would cheer as I saw the numbers climb but eventually I realized I had a lot of work to do if I wanted those numbers to keep going the right way. ...

Sep 22, 2010

Entrepreneur Mark Papadas had his “A-HA!” moment in bed one night, unable to sleep. “Like a lot of people, I was looking for work in 2008 after a career opportunity didn’t survive the economy,” explained Mr. Papadas, “and as I was lying in bed, I realized I could go back to doing what I know best, which is helping people. This time I wanted to help...

Sep 16, 2010

South Suburban Mom of three Alicia Meyer was on vacation in the south where she ran into a unique concept: Hi-Tech consignment sales of gently used childrens’ clothing with very low overhead. “I couldn’t believe what an incredible idea this was,” said Meyer, “and the light bulb went off in my head. I know so many women who get so much kids’ clothes...

Sep 15, 2010

Recently I sat down to talk to Fred Hoch, President of the Illinois Technology Association to discuss the organization’s short yet successfully history and the state of the technology scene here in Chicago. Located at 200 S. Wacker, Mr. Hoch launched the ITA five years ago built, as he says, “on the remnants of old organizations now dead and gone that no...