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Ms.Tech Launches New Initiatives, Growing Chicago Network

    Three years ago, a team of eight began a group for women in tech in Chicago. The group, Ms.Tech, launched a website Tuesday and now celebrates its growth.

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Chicago Startup Brings Social Power To Small Businesses

  Chicago startup Social Power Hour held its third networking event Thursday night to wind down social media week. The company brings social media solutions to small businesses, while holding.

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Chicago Startups Learn How to Disrupt Old School Industries

Disruption isn’t easy, as things that are new are not always welcome. This is the perennial problem for entrepreneurs. Startups heard from seasoned entrepreneurs in Chicago Tuesday night on how.

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For Expensive Flight Tickets, There’s Another “Option”

  Many grow frustrated incessantly checking Expedia and Bing to see if flight prices have gone up. Now, Options Away can secure steady prices in a highly volatile market, and.

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TechStars And The Future of EdTech

  Ten startup companies tread fearlessly into the future of edtech after ten weeks of growing their products with edtech mentors and like companies. Kaplan, a global educational services company,.

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The Designation: Where You Discover Design

Chicago design school, The Designation, is gearing up for its second session in Chicago this September. In 10-weeks, instructors say they hope to cover the basics of UX, UI and.

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Chicago’s River North Welcomes the Industrious “Hive”

  There’s a new office space coming to River North. Co-working spaces and incubators have embedded the area — and now there is also a “hive.” The 17,000 square-foot space.

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The Social Closet — A Chicago Fashion Community

  Tory Burch, Burberry and Toms. Two French fashionistas took their impeccable taste and created an online closet community closet — the Social Closet – to help some sell the.

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Innovation: How David Kalt Connected the Dots

  Serial entrepreneur David Kalt recently launched his newest startup, Reverb.com, after founding ClientBASE, the first CRM for the travel industry, and then optionsXpress, an online broker that sold to.

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The Psychology Of Design: John Roa Shares A Look Inside AKTA

“The cruel truth is that I’m not even a designer today,” said John Roa, founder of AKTA design studio. But if he was never a designer, then what made AKTA.

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