Web startup gets Bump from iPhone apps
For Bump Technologies, 3 million is a more significant number than 1 billion. The company that famously developed what was the 1 billionth iPhone application downloaded from Apple reportedly raised more than $3 million in its first institutional round of financing.
Innovation means squat without sweat
Groundbreaking ideas rarely make money without patience, passion and relentlessness.
Web baby business born in the cradle
Brad Spirrison: Chris and Kristen Conn had no idea they would be going into business together when their first child was born more than four years ago. The 35-year-old founders of Evanston-based MightyNest decided to cradle their Web startup after having trouble finding chemical-free products for their nursery.
Brad Spirrison: Chris and Kristen Conn had no idea they would be going into business together when their first child was born more than four years ago. The 35-year-old founders of Evanston-based MightyNest decided to cradle their Web startup after having trouble finding chemical-free products for their nursery.
Economic crunch lifts BigMachines
To companies like BigMachines, the sputtering economy is serving as an engine of massive growth.
