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Read About SideKick and the NextCorps Incubator
Get to know NextCorps incubation client, Sidekick, which is using technology to bring people together in the real world. Based on an interview with Sidekick Co-Founders, Laura Krebs Illig and Robert Illig. About Sidekick: Fostering Authentic, Meaningful Human...
Listen to An Interview with Sidekick’s President and COO, Robert Illig
On this edition of Oregon on the Record about our silent mental health crisis, you'll hear from a local psychologist as well as Robert Illig (starting at the 10:55 minute mark), a local entrepreneur who created an app to help move people away from their devices...
Read about Sidekick in Rochester Business Journal
A new mobile app — created by a company co-founded by a Pittsford Sutherland graduate — aims to foster real-world human connection and reimagine social media as a tool for authenticity and improved well-being. Sidekick Enterprises, Inc. released its free new mobile...
Friendship Stories
Kiwi W.’s Friendship Story
i’m a 20 year old woman and 3 of my friends (also women) and i like to play pick-up basketball. it’s great playing 2v2 but lately we’ve wanted to be able to scrimmage with a larger group — 3v3 at least. but we have had pretty much no luck finding any other women...
August O.’s Friendship Story
As obvious as this sounds, I wish I had Sidekick in my first semester of college. I didn’t have much of a problem making friends in that first semester but that was only because I was fortunate to live next to people I really enjoyed being around. I would’ve loved...
Lily R.’s Friendship Story
I have a lot of trouble focusing sometimes. I don't know if you've heard of body doubling but it's when two people do chores or tasks together. Either the same project or different things but side by side. It really helps motivate me to work and focus. But I have...
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