This month Melissa Pierce, documentary filmmaker and founder of Chicago Women Developers, has joined the EverPurse team as a marketing and sales strategist leading up to the product’s launch in the Spring.
Beware the inexperienced angel investors, who are more like wolves in sheeps’ clothing than potential partners who will help your venture grow.
The Chicago startup scene has been especially generous this year. From collecting toys for kids to helping you look extra fly in your ugly sweater, here are four players in the Chicago startup scene that are giving back this holiday season.
The 1871-based program will run startups through a three month program to get them ready to take on untapped markets beginning in the summer.
ParkWhiz, Chicago’s longest running parking startup, announced this week that it has completed a funding round at $2 million featuring investments from Hyde Park Ventures, Amicus Capital, and Alexis Ohanian.
This month’s Lean Startup Circle event, held at Google’s offices in downtown Chicago, featured Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Greg Healy discussing using lean startup methodology in the enterprise.
Sinister Design, an independent game studio operating out of Chicago, has just launched a Kickstarter for its multiplayer, highly customizable love letter to tactical RPGs.
St. Louis sports networking startup LockerDome has continued its meteoric rise this week, announcing that it has reached a new milestone of 4 million unique visitors each month.
Cain and Mason share how they became entranced with the world of entrepreneurship, the story behind the formation of Catapult, and their thoughts on Chicago’s startup scene today.
Toast the Chicago startup scene together with over 100 entrepreneurs and small businesses including Hireology on December 31st as part of Entrepreneur’s Eve. The employee selection management system startup Hireology is excited to support the event, which benefits The H Foundation’s cancer research initiatives. Hireology joins Uber, 1871, and Braintree among many other sponsors.
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