crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. We’re partial to Chicago. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs. In fact, 6.02

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Liz is the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. 12:50): How have you adapted TransPerfect to meet changing global trends? She's the founder and c e o of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation is an entrepreneur, business leader. This week, we´re going to be re-gifting you your favorite episodes!

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global. We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The trial is set to occur near Chicago, US, with 500 tonnes of crushed waste concrete to be scattered over 50 hectares of agricultural land. Maurice Bryson, Silicate CEO and co-founder, thinks that their method of repurposing returned concrete to enhance both productivity and carbon-removal capabilities on farmland could be a game-changer.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. We are thrilled to be able to reach so many people on a global level for the 2021 festival – this scope would have taken us several years as an in-person event.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We are the largest textile and apparel center in the country and now we have a way to reach billions of people in this globally connected Internet. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC? Stuff you may not know about LA?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. We’re partial to Chicago. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs. In fact, 6.02

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Where can they find big ideas? (12:50): Let's get started. (00:29):

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next Chris Ruder from Chicago, Illinois, pitched Spikeball , a new volleyball-esque game that is being played at camps and college campuses. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. Headquarters: Chicago, IL. But even in Boston & Chicago it remains above $20. Groupon, Inc. Founding Date: 2009.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Experienced growth-stage executive joins Hologram to continue its rapid growth CHICAGO and AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —? Hologram , a global cellular platform for IoT, announced it hired Mike Georgoff this month as its first Chief Product Officer as the organization continues its growth. We’re thrilled to welcome Mike to our team.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 9, 2017

Even though the University of Chicago does not have a school of engineering, it has become a leading startup university. Groupon, GrubHub, Braintree Financial and other high growth, student created firms have come of of the University of Chicago in recent years and the end is nowhere in site.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Before Giftly, Dan was a Booth Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Dan has a B.A. It’s awesome to have you.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. It is hard to believe but Google, a company widely seen as global and inclusive, has a diversity problem. More than 70% of their global workforce is male. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: Recruit from a wide-range of college campuses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Why Chicago is One of the Best Cities for Entrepreneurs | @ Technori – [link]. You Can’t Add Value If You Don’t Have Values | Built In Chicago – [link]. Fighting among co-founders is healthy- [link]. Gap Moves Away From Global AOR Agency Model | Advertising Age – [link]. ” – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Her work has appeared in Entrepreneur, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Chicago Public Radio, and the Financial Times. Her work has appeared in Entrepreneur, the Wall Street Journal, npr, Chicago Public Radio, and The Financial Times. That's Chicago Public Radio, isn't it? Oh, that's the second addition.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals can connect and collaborate remotely. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

So read on and be inspired… At 30 Years of Age, Tianyi Joe Zhu, Chicago Entrepreneur, Named Amongst the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

I work with best-selling author Melissa G Wilson, a Chicago publisher, to produce books for Fortune 500 companies and CEOs. I’m a viral video producer so my number one resolution is to start a global phenomenon on the level of the Harlem Shake or Ice Bucket Challenge. ” Click To Tweet. I have a small ghostwriting business.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

Can any other organization offer a kinesthetic and whole-brained process for turning global trends into new strategies and breakthrough ideas for your organization? Still, show me another innovation consulting company that is offering what KILN offers. Does anyone else have a service like IdeaKeg? KILN launches IdeaKeg(tm) Single.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Network for Good, Global Giving, Mission Fish (behind ebay’s GivingWorks). Give to the Max” days. Promoting innovation.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

We see a larger percentage of women using the services of ConVerge (The Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at North Central College) in the Chicago suburb Naperville and increasingly some in non-traditional fields including construction, warehousing, manufacturing healthcare and technology.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

6- Using the idea of Chicago sports team colors. Using the idea of that Chicago sports team colors and the fact that I was born and raised as a Northsider – things started to come together. My co-founder, David Johnson, and I came up with the name “Genexa” because we felt it represented the next generation of medicine.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

starting the global social commerce movement and changing the face of commerce forever. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. I decided I wasn’t passionate about running an ad-supported business and sold my stake to my co-founder. a never-ending debate about bootstrapping versus VC-backing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

And I have been impressed with Steven Kaplan and others at University of Chicago (my alma mater), who have been encouraging entrepreneurship through the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship , through angel investing , seed conferences and changes in teaching. We also spoke about technology systems in the perspective of global competition.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40. Panelists: Jeff Kupietzky MBA 98, CEO, Oversee.net.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. 2- Raise and support our family on our own terms.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. After you’ve organized all the global ad agencies in the world, then you can go after Enterprise once you’ve got that market down. Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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