Feb 24, 2011

Last fall’s Funding Feeding Frenzy event was a huge success, with over 100 attendees and media coverage from NPR, Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. Their spring event will no doubt be even more spectacular, and to insure its success, a Funding Feeding Frenzy Kickoff event will be held on Monday, February 28. The kickoff event differs from the...

Feb 17, 2011

What makes a great meeting? How do people be authentic when they meet? What happens when people show up as themselves and work together? These are the questions that drive Paul Caswell, founder of Weave the People. Caswell discovered that for all the meetings that are held in business, people continually miss out on meeting each other. Over time, Weave the...

Feb 10, 2011

When MidVentures opened its doors in 2008, they were just another consulting firm in Chicago. 2010’s MidVentures25 event put them on the path as event hosts.  And last September’s MidVenturesLAUNCH turned them into a prominent resource for techies, entrepreneurs and VC’s in the Midwest- with a world-wide reach. In 2011, MidVentures will host three major...

Jan 27, 2011

I tried to post this blog last night after the Flyover Geeks Q1 Startup Launch and it wasn’t pretty. The event was fantastic: six startups, lots of mingling and a great location to host a party. Chicago’s Eventbrite rep even came out and joined us. But the longer you stay at a bar, the more the bartenders love you, and your coherent state for...

Jan 20, 2011

If you’re a job-seeker, there isn’t much you can do about the job hunt, aside from old-school networking and sending out resumes en-masse. But Steven Brooks, Founder and CEO of Guugos.com wanted to change all that. “Unless you’ve been living on a deserted island, you can’t help but notice how young people are integrating video into every facet of their...