bandwagon.fm

<p>Find bands who will be playing near you and listen to their music.</p>

youphonic

<p>Youphonic is the social platform for guitar players.</p>

Cheeky Chicago

<p>CheekyChicago is an online lifestyle magazine for the women of Chicago. It is your social destination to the most exciting happenings in the city. Cheeky is your monthly event host, your weekly newsletter and your daily dose on all things fresh, feminine and fun. Cheeky gives back to our savvy community by offering fabulous perks and VIP status with our exclusive Cheeky Card Program.</p>

Alltuition

<p>Alltuition helps students and their families manage the entire financial aid lifecycle</p>

ExperienCity

Mission:&nbsp; ExperienCity makes city "livisting" fun &amp; easyVision:&nbsp; ExperienCity is the digital destination for experiencing the world’s citiesValues:Celebrate cities (starting with the best in the world - Chicago!)Support local businessesOperate with integrityCreate connectionsDelight customers and partners&gt;&gt; Stay tuned for more as the above becomes a reality! &lt;&lt;

Chimu Solutions

<p>Chimu Solutions is an Evanston-based startup that delivers actionable insights into intricate soccer team dynamics with the goal of differentiating role players from superstars. Founded by Northwestern’s Dr. Luis Amaral, Chimu has provided quantitative performance analysis and scouting services for professional soccer organizations.</p>

Tickifieds - Free Event Classifieds

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; "><a href="http://www.tickifieds.com/">Tickifieds</a> is an online event ticket marketplace in which users can buy and sell tickets to any event for free. &nbsp;Unlike other online classifieds, we only deal with event tickets. By focusing on the event ticket niche we are able to specifically target ticket buyers and sellers ONLY. Since we are only in the ticket business we able to provide some unique promotion, search engine optimization, and social networking techniques that reliabily get your ad in front of thousands of potential ticket buyers.</span></p>

The Top 10

<p><em>Top 10 Chicagoland deals and info on things to do in Chicagoland are two themes behind the recent launch of TheTop10.com. </em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Saving Chicagoans from daily deal overload and mundane weekends, one top 10 list at a time, is the motto behind recently launched TheTop10.com</p>

RollOnIt.com :: The 1st Custom Wheel Club In The Nation

<p><span>&quot;RollOnIt.com :: Change Your Wheels As Often As You Change Your Shoes.&quot; &copy;&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span>RollOnIt.com is the 1st AND ONLY Custom Wheel Membership Club IN THE NATION.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span>RollOnIt.com is a membership community that connects custom car enthusiasts and custom wheel lovers together locally and nationally. Members connect online at our website and Facebook Fan Page, as well as in person at live events to BUY, SELL &amp; TRADE their lightly used custom wheels from, to and with each other instead of letting those wheels waste away in their basements, garages and backyards. At RollOnIt.com Custom Wheel BUY SELL TRADE Shows, our members take over some of the most well known wheel shops in the country for one day only to BUY, SELL &amp; TRADE their lightly used custom wheels from, to and with each other right off of their cars!&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span>On a purchase that starts on average at $1500 and can go well over $5000, when you buy a set of custom wheels, you&#39;re usually stuck with that set of wheels for the long haul. Now, instead of only being able to change their wheels once every 1-2 years, custom wheel lovers can literally Change Their Wheels As Often As They Change Their Shoes!</span></p>

zipdeeloo

<p>zipdeeloo is the first proximity-based social media platform that connects individuals and families living in the same zip code. It allows users to gain conveniences, network and share information as a result of their location.</p><p>Think of it as LinkedIn meets Craigslist for your zip code.</p>

TextHog

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="p1">Texthog is a service to track your budgets and expenses online.&nbsp;</p>

Professional Diversity Network

<p>The Professional Diversity Network mission is to serve as a welcoming career resource for professionals of every background and culture. Our members are invested in each other's success and inclined to mentor and open doors for each other. We provide a rich array of career resources and job opportunities with leading American companies to help members achieve their professional and personal goals and build a brighter future for all.</p>

UrbanBuddy

&nbsp;Imagine a world where you could arrive in a city and feel as local as ever.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;UrbanBuddy™ has developed a network of vetted and trained local experts in cities around the world that makes this possible.&nbsp; Our teams are experts on local food, culture, sight seeing, and logistics.&nbsp;The UrbanBuddies can support all varieties of travelers with any request, anytime. &nbsp;UrbanBuddy.com currently has two distinct segments in order to enhance a travelers’ experience. Our Marketplace offers people the option to purchase tickets to unique experiences that are designed and hosted by our Urban Buddies on a weekly basis. Secondly, with an UrbanBuddy membership, travelers have instant access to our carefully developed team, 24 hours a day.&nbsp;UrbanBuddy selects only the most knowledgeable and responsive hosts, effectively building a team of trustworthy and&nbsp;exceptional local&nbsp;experts.&nbsp;Our UrbanBuddies are fun, approachable, personable&nbsp;and exude a love for their city. They&nbsp;use their learned knowledge of place and experience to provide custom advice and personal connections.Our goal is to help each traveler have something to brag about when they return home and we go above and beyond any expectations to make this possible. Everyone deserves his or her very own UrbanBuddy. We look forward to showing you around!&nbsp;- UrbanBuddy Team -

PhilterIt

<p>&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">PhilterIt is a Chrome extension for Gmail that automatically filters email messages into rich, visual icons. It is similar to other add-ons like those from Boomerang, PowerInbox or Rapportive.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Installation is quick and dead simple and you have full control over how to manage the hundreds of brands - merchants, organizations, institutions, newsletters, blogs - that send you great content which ends up creating more pain than value. From drag/drop sorting to quick filtering between personal and brand messages, PhilterIt makes email organization and brand engagement simple, intuitive and fun!</p>

Seesaw Society

<p>Seesaw Society creates classically beautiful children's clothing for infants and toddlers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Some time ago, two friends (and moms) began talking about an idea for children’s wear. A line filled with clean, classic, and delightfully playful designs for little ones. Timeless, quality clothing that makes dressing children stylishly a cinch--whether you're off to a playdate at the park or a special celebration. With the launch of Seesaw Society, our dream has finally become reality. We are loving every second of building this brand and remain continually amazed, entertained and inspired by the little ones in our own lives every day.</p>

Harvest Exchange Corp

<p>Harvest brings the world's investors together</p><ul><li>Connect with over 800 financial firms including the largest Investment Managers in the world.</li><li>Access more than 15,000 investment ideas and perspectives while sharing your own with friends and followers.</li><li>Manage your own simulated real-time long/short portfolio to build your investment track record, or to simply learn more about investing.</li></ul>

TrackFaster

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">TrackFaster is your automated guide to personalized weight loss. It removes all of the guesswork and uncertainty and tells you what to do, how to do it, and why, all based on your specific challenges and habits.&nbsp;It acts like an automated coach, finding the biggest challenges holding you back (whether they be in your diet, mindset, or exercise routine), and teaching you the skills that you need in order to overcome those challenges.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Current weight loss services are prohibitively expensive while current weight loss apps fail to give personalized guidance and analysis or to cause lasting behavioral changes. TrackFaster succeeds where other apps fail because it combines evidence-based fitness and nutrition education with personalized, data-driven guidance.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Our first cohort averaged 7 lbs of weight loss in just 2 months, and we are launching a paid version of our product (at $20/month) by the end of February.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The US weight loss market is over $60 Billion, and our product can undercut current solutions on price while scaling to take the market. Our team’s combined expertise in fitness, nutrition, physiology, behavior change, programming, and systems engineering uniquely enables us to execute this plan.</p>

Roommate

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.99993896484375px;">Roommate makes it easy to pay your friends, keep track of shared tabs, coordinate shopping lists, and more. It's your life. Simplified.</span></p>

Wrapports

<div>Wrapports invests in the future of local media. We look at underperforming businesses and underserved markets and see opportunities for disruption. We seek to transform business models and build new ones.</div><p>We believe in the power of technology to change industries and create new value consumers demand. Where others are taking steps, we are taking the leap.</p><p>Wrapports - transforming media through technology.</p>

A Good Sport

<p>A Good Sport is the creator of the only website that lets people find a run, walk, stair climb, marathon, half-marathon, or triathlon based on the type of charity they want to support.</p><p>A Good Sport's goal is</p><ul><li>to create a streamlined process to help athletes and volunteers find more meaningful events, and</li><li>to help charities find more participants so they can raise more money and awareness for their causes.</li></ul><p>Our website AGoodSport.net also provides detailed information about the charities associated with the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, including how many guaranteed entries each charity still has to offer -- more information than is available on the official Chicago Marathon charity page.&nbsp;</p><p>We are developing a suite of supplementary services for race directors and runners that will mutually benefit those parties as well as the official charities of each event.&nbsp;</p><p>AGoodSport has been a member of 1871 since 2012. In the fall of 2013 we were selected to participate as a subject business for an entrepreneurial marketing class at Quinlan School of Business: Loyola University Chicago. Four MBA candidates from Professor Ugur Uygur's class&nbsp;worked with AGoodSport to develop and begin implementing a marketing plan.&nbsp;</p><p>We have been profiled in DNAInfo, interviewed on WGN Radio and in RedEye Chicago, and mentioned in Crain's Chicago Business.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>