What do you think of when you hear the term “UX?” Do you think wireframes and software interface design? It’s true having designers to translate marketing requests into visual representations for your developers is a competitive advantage, but user experience design is more than just visual. A Systematic Approach to Empathy In order to truly be …
Technori Pitch Announces Restaurant Innovator Nick Kokonas as Keynote Speaker
Photo credit: Taylor Castle Photography We’re thrilled to announce the keynote speaker of the next Technori Pitch on May 29, 2012 will be Nick Kokonas, the business visionary behind Chicago’s haute cuisine standard bearers Alinea, Next, and The Aviary. Foodies across the country are well-acquainted with the iconic names of Alinea, Next, and The Aviary. ...
Technori April Pitch Recap
We had yet another full house and successful April Technori Pitch at the Chase Auditorium yesterday evening! The Keynote We kicked the evening off with keynote speaker Harry Gottlieb, the Founder of Jellyvision Lab and Jellyvision Games. He presented a demo of the upcoming Facebook video game “You Don’t Know Jack,” which initially started as ...
Siri Co-Founder Dag Kittlaus on Engineering, Pizza, and His Time With Steve Jobs
In response to hundreds of requests, pleas, and pings for more information on Dag Kittlaus’ keynote at Technori Pitch on March 27, 2012, we’re releasing a transcript of his talk. Many thanks to our friends at RoboToaster for the audio feed! If you weren’t there in person, get ready for a wild jaunt into Dag’s vision for ...
A Million Cups
After spending the last year living and breathing Chicago startup community, I can say without a doubt that a startup community is created by “a million cups.” As I said in my first post to start off 2011, a startup community does not come from massive events, nor does it come from publications like Technori. ...
“This is like you’re holding a loaded gun to my head and you’re promising that you won’t pull the trigger,” I said to one of our lead investors with regard to their financing agreement which penalized the company’s success at best and, at worst, sealed our fate. He reassured me that the investment group was …
As an organizer for the next Startup Weekend in Chicago, I’m passionate about bringing together people from a wide array of different backgrounds to support them in building great things. If you can imagine being able to take a great idea and spin it around into actionable next steps towards a viable business within 54 …
It’s Saturday afternoon, and amid cold pizza, micro brews, and half-eaten donuts, teams of three or four sit in front of laptops, heads poking up intermittently to scan a whiteboard full of vision statements, UX questions, and feature lists. This is the scene of the first hackathon at the newly opened 1871, the co-working-space-meets-tech-startup-beehive and Code Academy …
Photo credit: Taylor Castle Photography We’re thrilled to announce the keynote speaker of the next Technori Pitch on May 29, 2012 will be Nick Kokonas, the business visionary behind Chicago’s haute cuisine standard bearers Alinea, Next, and The Aviary. Foodies across the country are well-acquainted with the iconic names of Alinea, Next, and The Aviary. …
It started out as a joke between two friends: since Instagram and Pinterest are the hottest properties out there, wouldn’t it be funny to just mash the two together? But if the friends happen to be programming nerds, like Brandon Leonardo and Pek Pongpaet, co-founder of Tapisto that creates mobile websites for small businesses, the punchline you get is Pinstagram.co, …