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Report from 03/15/2010

Scoop [Actually 3/3/2010]: The May Report: 3/3/2010: Drew Clark to lead state's broadband development work; A tiny firm in Vinton, Iowa, AlphaGen Materials, which makes a powder and a spray gun, deep in due diligence with Kleiner Perkins and the undisputed winner of the BNC Capital Group vote

Scoop [Actually 3/1/2010]: The May Report: 3/1/2010: Second report for today: I just love the FIRST of march: Reader mailbag which includes a response from VC Matt McCall, a chemical venus fly trap that eats nuclear waste and many other things...

Scoop [Actually 3/1/2010]: The May Report: 3/1/2010: Third report of the day, and what a day it is!: Ted Widen's $20MM firm, Chicago-scene.com?; Miss Illinois 2006 shows at Social Media Club Chicago; the low down on Hoch and why Howerton may be a better bet; I can count 14 events in 3 days from last week; Benderoff bolts Brad and much more...

Scoop [Actually 3/1/2010]: The May Report: 3/1/2010: Former Daley tech advisor and Obama fundraiser Katherine M. Gehl to wear her milk mustache to Washington; David "anything but start-ups" Weinstein spreading seed money on anything but seedlings and this is St. David Day, a Welsh holiday -- it's also marchFIRST and Chopin's 200th; he was Polish you know

Scoop [Actually 3/1/2010]: The May Report: 3/1/2010: What a glorious way to end marchFIRST! The fourth report of the day goes out with a bang not a whimper: Local trading firm/prop shop Cygnus Atratus, LLC , also trading under ROQ Capital, goes ka-boom: More than 40 people laid off including quants between Friday and Monday

Scoop [Actually 03/08/2010]: The May Report: 3/8/2010: A very full report: Did The Next Big Sound move to Boulder?; Appolicious got a total of $2.07MM, with $1.5MM coming in December; plus they just bought AppVee; Avery Cohen on The Big Ooga; Mike Doyle bolts ChicagoNow with some choice words; Alien Tech raises another $11MM; TMR corrects CrunchBase