Jun 3, 2011

Brittany Laughlin is the co-founder of gtrot, a website improving social travel. Before narrowing down her interests to travel and tech, Brittany worked for American Express managing a team and a $96 million budget. I interviewed Brittany to learn how she determined which of her many interests to pursue, how she was so persistent, and how she’s looking...

Jun 2, 2011

Back in 2003, brothers Adam and Chad Saffro founded Real Time Freight Services, originally setting up shop in the Technology Innovation Center at Northwestern in Evanston, IL and providing a SaaS platform for shippers and transportation companies to communicate more efficiently and effectively.  With Adam in charge of business development and Chad keeping his...

Jun 1, 2011

Wish you can have more without having to pay more? What many people don’t realize is the vast amount of resources that are available to them right in their neighborhoods. OhSoWe is an online platform designed to bring neighbors together so they can communicate, collaborate, and share resources. Need to borrow a hammer? Want someone to mow your lawn? Maybe even...

May 31, 2011

Welcome to the launch of Tech.li! Many of you grew to love us as Flyover Geeks, but we felt it was time for a change- time for us to grow into the media organization that was just a glimmer in my eye back when I founded Flyover Geeks in August of 2010. Flyover Geeks was founded on the belief that there was something missing in startup tech reporting. Other media...

May 27, 2011

Jessica Lybeck is the co-founder of Dabble, a new site allowing anybody to teach a class and anybody to dabble in new activities. Before Dabble, Jessica co-founded a small business marketing firm and before that was an urban designer working on 50-year plans for colleges. I interviewed Jessica to learn about dabble, her journey as an entrepreneur, and what sorts of things urban designers do (cool stuff!).

May 26, 2011

  Imagine seeing the world through other people’s eyes. Well now you can do just that with Mobli. At  Mobli.com, you can see real-time streams of visual content from around the world.  Their easy iPhone application allows users to upload photos and videos directly from the palm of their hands and share them with their friends or network...