Startups

TheStylisted Co-founder On New York City Versus Chicago

TheStylisted co-founder Lauren Katzberg lists out the differences between New York City and Chicago.

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5 Reasons The Windy City is a Great Place for Startups

What’s the best city?  This loaded and subjective question that has no doubt created hours of heated debate.  During dinners, traffic jams, subway rides, and DMV lines people passionately espouse.

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Even the Wisest of Men and Machines Can Be In Error

“Sometimes even the wisest of men and machines can be in error.” That 1984 quote from the one and only Optimus Prime sums up nicely the reasoning behind most trademark.

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Launch dates are arbitrary

Building a startup comes with its far share of unforeseen issues and challenges.  Even when planned properly, the timeline for a feature or service is arbitrary to our best guess.  This is.

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Gentlemen: Get Fresh Kit…And Stay That Way

Get Fresh Kit is a membership-based service delivering samples of products to your doorstep for a monthly fee of $20.

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Dabble Expands To 50 Cities

Chicago startup Dabble announced this week they have expanded to 50 markets globally this week due to hundreds of requests from cities outside Chicago. Dabble allows someone with an idea.

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Energy Deregulation Startup Power 2 Switch Raises $1.3 Million

Chicago startup Power2Switch has raised $1.3 million dolars in financing. The energy deregulation startup allows individual and commercial electricity customers choose the electricity provider that powers their home or business.

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Chicago And Champaign Spur Illinois Startup Growth

CHAMPAIGN, IL — It’s barely dawn in Champaign, and Yi Chen, 27, is in University of Illinois professor Logan Liu’s Nanobionics lab, poking delicately at gleaming blue wafers and crunching.

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Impact Engine – A New Chicago Accelerator for Social Startups

Last week I found out about a really cool program that excited me, as someone interested in social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in general, Impact Engine. Impact Engine is a.

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Founder Stories From Kris Petersen

Entrepreneur and good human being Kris Petersen started his career as a cog in the wheel of corporate America. His dark-side experience includes over five years of technology consulting for.

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