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The first TechCocktail Conference is scheduled to hit Chicago on May 29th at Loyola’s Water Tower Campus.

The event promises to be a one of a kind event for Chicago’s startup community and has what appears to be a great line up of panelists with Dick Costolo (FeedBurner), Jason Fried (37Signals), Mike Domek (TicketsNow), Matt McCall (DFJ Portage Ventures), Brad Feld (Foundry Group), and many more scheduled to present.

The main themes of the Conference will be: building a business anywhere (not just Silicon Valley), leveraging new technologies and social media to help your business, getting your business funded, discovering your inner CEO, and growing a community around a traditional business.

Tickets are still available and you can register here: http://techconference1.eventbrite.com/

As an added bonus the 8th Tech Cocktail Mixer will take place afterwards at the usual spot, John Barleycorn in Wrigleyville.

(Conference Link)

FeedBurner

FeedBurner is the web’s most popular RSS feed handler and feed service provider. They manage the feed distribution for a good number of the Internet’s largest content publishers and provide a variety of services to help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers track subscribers and promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

One of the most recent Chicago startup success stories, they were acquired by Google on July 1st 2007 for approximately $100 million. They have since moved into Google’s Chicago offices at 20 W Kinzie.

People: Dick Costolo CEO, Matt Shobe, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski
Funding: Mobius Venture Capital, Portage Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Union Square Ventures
Status: Acquired by Google July 1st 2007
Website: http://www.feedburner.com
Blog: http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/
Location: Google Chicago Headquarters