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Building A Start-up Team (Tips From Dating)

Sunshine. Rainbows. Butterflies. We all know that giddy feeling.  Finding the “right one” makes all the difference. As entrepreneurs, we can take a few tips from dating to help us.

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LinkedIn IPO Harbinger For Facebook, GS To Benefit

Clearly I was not the only one to push a buy order through for the LinkedIn IPO last week. Nor was I the only one to sell everything; it’s just.

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Flyover Geeks: New Name? Full Team? B O O M!

Since I launched Flyover Geeks in August of last year, (for a trip down memory lane, see here and here) coverage of the tech scene in Chicago and beyond has.

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Buzzwords vs. Mom (Mom Should Win…)

Sometimes, one gets the feeling that entrepreneurs speak a different language from everyone else. Tech entrepreneurs especially. There are many market segments, and some of those have their own sub-segments..

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Book Review: The Peak Interview by Bill Burnett

With the tag line on the front cover of “New Insights into Winning the Interview and Getting the Job,” I was expecting to learn some new secrets I had never.

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Dear Networker, Try Harder

“Hey, Jason, it was great meeting you at XYZ event a few days ago. Your thing that you’re working on sounds pretty sweet. Let me know if I can help.

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The Smarteys Way: An Online Financial Education Series

written by marian Mangoubi As an entrepreneur, you have probably often heard that most small businesses fail within the first two to five years of its existence. There are many.

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From Six Figure Corporate Salary To $0 And A Co-Founder

Adam Siegel is the co-founder of Inkling Markets, a company that creates prediction market software for large companies. He’s also recently founded Cityposh, a competitive local shopping site.

I invited Adam here today to share why he left a successful job at a large consulting firm to start Inkling Markets and what he’s learned along the way.

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How My Dead Hard Disk Saved Me

On Tuesday morning, when I usually publish my posts, I experienced one of those freak technological occurrences which remind users that their lives are increasingly digital, that they’ve come to.

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Smarteys: Finance Help For Young Professionals

Adrissha Wimberly and Charisse Conanan are the cofounders of Chicago startup Smarteys.com and want to change the way young people think about money. “Young people are sharing their information like.

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