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CEO Sundays: Why Your Company Doesn’t Have To Be The Next Instagram

Odds are, you’re not going to build a $100 million business. And that’s more than ok.

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CEO Sunday: Running Your Business In The Cloud

Technology is finally at a point where entire businesses can be run in the cloud. Gone are the days of servers, firewalls, desktop computers and armies of IT staffers — if you’re a startup that is.

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Accelerator Scorecard Part II

Excelerate has been very successful in finding, funding and supporting young Chicago companies. But as successful as Excelerate has been on that front, there haven’t yet been any grand slam successes.

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CEO Sunday: The Importance Of Differentiating Your Startup

A guest post by Blake Shipley, founder and CEO of CoupSmart, on the importance of differentiating your startup.

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CEO Sundays: E-Publishing, My Un-Business

DarkSide Publishing was born in January, 2011, shortly after I e-published my first novel. As a fledgling e-publisher, I had to figure out just how the e-publishing game worked all on my own.

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Integrating PR Into Your Product

A startup’s biggest challenge is marketing. Surely financing, hiring a great team, building a killer product among other challenges startups face are hard to pull off, but once you’ve got.

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Why We Need To Shift Our Focus Of The Open Web

A few weeks ago I found myself at a family dinner, when the inevitable discussion of politics became a topic of conversation.  I love my grandma more than anything, but to.

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CEO Sunday: Making The Leap – Learning To Swim

Below is a guest post by Greg Moran. Having been involved with three startups, I can’t tell you how many times people have asked me how to prepare for starting a.

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CEO Sunday: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Freemium

So, you have an amazing product. No one else is doing it. You’re the only venture that has had this idea, and it’s amazing. You’re exited. No one else is..

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CEO Sunday: Running Two Startups Is More Than A Possibility

Running a startup is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I guess I probably can’t blame people for the looks they give me when I tell them I.

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