Many amazing tech women over the past year have enjoyed mingling over lunch at the "Ladies Who Lunch" gatherings successfully pioneered by Sharon Schneider of MoxieJean. As she moves out of 1871, we are determined to keep her event alive for the tech women of Chicago. In a partnership with the Ms.Tech Group, Daniela Bolzmann will be taking over Sharon's reigns and continuing the "Ladies Who Lunch" gatherings.

IT Consulting Firm, SWC Technology Partners introduced Silicon City, a web show focusing on the startup scene in Chicago, in late April. Since the launch, numerous guests have been on the show to discuss the Chicago startup scene. Check out the latest Silicon City episodes.

Peter Liu of New World Ventures

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Maybe it was just a coincidence, but three days before I started my internship with both Dashfire, the movie The Internship was released. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson land internships at Google after losing their jobs as watch salesmen; hilarity ensues. Hilarity might be a strong word (I’d give the movie a B: funny but not hysterical). I left the theater wondering what the next ten weeks would hold.

IT consulting firm, SWC Technology Partners premieres another exciting episode of Silicon City! Silicon City is a bi-weekly web show focusing on the startup community in Chicago. This episode shows a unique view of the Chicago startup ecosystem. Watch this week’s episode featuring Peter Liu, Associate at New World Ventures.

Sensing the incessant rush of the Windy city, it doesn’t take much to recognize that Chicago is becoming new US high-tech startup hub.

Let’s face it, rejection sucks. And getting rejected from TechStars, after making it to the final round of TechStars interviews REALLY sucks.

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With the exception of those nasty gun designs (yin to the yang, snake in the garden, humankind's collective Achille's heel, party crashers...), there is nothing I don't like about 3D printing. It's just such a hoot to create an object from 2D photographs! 

Here's a short video of artist Tom Burtonwood of the 3D Printer Experience over on Clark street—which offers workshops—clicking away on the steps of the Art Institute. What a fabulous mash up of the tourist snapshot and the souvenir...

As the weekend of April 19th approached so did Startup Weekend Chicago.  A three-day brain crush fest, which would, bring some of the worlds most forward thinking and entrepreneurial-minded people into the same place.  Flights arrived at Chicago O’Hare and Midway airports from Boston, California and even as for as Toronto and Europe. This would be the 8th installment of Startup Weekend Chicago and it took place in a Chicago staple of creativity, 1871.