News or Television Appearances and Announcements of Interest....
Amazon’s subsidized Fire blazes path to new segment of consumers

Amazon Kindle Fire on Sale for Pre-Order, Competition for iPad: MyFoxCHICAGO.com

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Trademarks matter, and this is exactly why they exist

Today Timelines Inc., a growing young company based inside of Chicago’s TechNexus, filed a trademark infringement suit against Facebook. Timelines has operated timelines.com, a site that allows people to post pictures and notes to tell the story of their lives and the story of events around them. They have a registered trademark, and even facebook.com/timelines [...]

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Securing Trade Secrets in a New First-to-File Patent Process

The tech industry has a paramount interest in patents and protecting intellectual property, and it’s worth a review of the recent, rather historical, changes to patent law. Pres. Obama signed The America Invents Act, AIA, on Sept. 16, 2011, at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. Three major provisions of [...]

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Hosting 25 @chitechacademy students @technexus to brainstorm tech company ideas. Already 1500 applicants for next freshman class! #awesome


February 1st, 2012

http://t.co/VgNy6tCc …ah, baby, you know what I like…


January 31st, 2012

Among the other announcements this week, we took a moment to celebrate the 5th anniversary of opening Chicago’s… http://t.co/u7srjOuR


January 24th, 2012

TechNexus 5-year anniversary, 130 new ventures, $75m attracted, nearly 3000 monthly collaborators – Crain’s Chicago http://t.co/dAfN95Uk


January 24th, 2012

More interested in creating than basking in what’s already built, time for me to move on from ITA: https://t.co/SmHqk5nq


January 22nd, 2012

Time for me to get back to work… http://t.co/EkdhAeCq … new agenda, same old zeal. Stay tuned…


January 20th, 2012

Congrats to my buddy Adam and crew @modelmetrics on acquisition by @salesforce
http://t.co/xCOdPDVa


November 15th, 2011

Taking a break, coming home to Chicago to play a little football, relax and check-in/check-out for a few days. http://t.co/C8YfTR0q


November 12th, 2011

@CastingProducer I’m away from work for a few weeks dealing with family illness, but happy to pass along your investment oppo… send link.


November 10th, 2011

Smartest 142 computer science students @itabuzz found at 9 universities, hanging @technexus today #ITAfallchallenge #hellaimpact


November 4th, 2011

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A shifting of my priorities…

A shifting of my priorities…

I’ve been mostly silent for the past three weeks, and absent from community events. I’ve disconnected as much as possible from the routine, and shifted focus to my family. Here’s why… Four years ago, my 30-year-old sister Hilliary died after a courageous battle with a rare and insidious cancer. It was the f...

Trademarks matter, and this is exactly why they exist

Trademarks matter, and this is exactly why they exist

Today Timelines Inc., a growing young company based inside of Chicago's TechNexus, filed a trademark infringement suit against Facebook. Timelines has operated timelines.com, a site that allows people to post pictures and notes to tell the story of their lives and the story of events around them. They have a registered trademark, and even face...

The future voices of ChiTech Academy

The future voices of ChiTech Academy

I just returned from a visit to Chicago Tech Academy and my first visit with an assembly of the 150 new freshmen... and I am inspired! This third class of students seems to be the most inquisitive, the most engaged and the most eager bunch of students I’ve met at the new high school. The reputation of ChiTech after the fi...