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A Chicago entrepreneur and the fate of a private hologram collection

May 20, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Before there was Instagram, there were holograms. Chicago entrepreneur Moshe Tamssot doesn't want the world to forget it. Tamssot, founder of The Monks of Invention, is on a quest to...

IA Collaborative’s founder offers 3 ideas on design thinking

May 20, 2019 at 8:54 p.m.

Kathleen Brandenburg helps businesses solve problems, especially when they don't know what those problems are. Her Chicago-based consultancy, IA Collaborative, helps clients identify and answer design-focused questions. She calls the...

A four-day virtual conference for experienced programmers, called hack.summit(), kicked off this week.

Hack.summit() trumpets virtual tradeoffs, including flexible access

May 20, 2019 at 8:54 p.m.

You would need 3.5 McCormick Places to house the inaugural hack.summit(), which made room in its name for parentheses. But the event's venue is wherever participants are logging on. The...

Silicon Valley Bank rallies clients to compete in new ChiTech Food Drive

May 20, 2019 at 8:53 p.m.

Nine local startups will compete to see who can collect the most canned food and donations for the Greater Chicago Food Depository this holiday season. The Chicago office of Silicon...

Narrative Science raises $10 million, shifts from automated news stories

May 20, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

Chicago-based Narrative Science announced Friday that it has raised $10 million and signaled a shift from its original focus on creating automated news stories. Narrative Science launched in 2010 out...

A champion of the ’99 percent’: tech entrepreneurs who keep their day jobs

May 20, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

Sramana Mitra, a San Francisco-based serial entrepreneur and strategy consultant, is author of "Bootstrapping With a Paycheck." The e-book features case studies of entrepreneurs who successfully built their businesses without...

Aurelio’s Pizza gives thanks for new loyalty-focused app

May 20, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

Aurelio's Pizza, a 55-year-old Homewood-based chain, welcomes what's always its busiest dine-in day of the year Wednesday. The company hopes to entice diners — on the night before Thanksgiving when...

Kapow Events adds offices in Boston, Phoenix

May 20, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

Corporate events firm Kapow Events is expanding again, this time into Boston and Phoenix, the company announced Monday. The Chicago-based firm plans to add offices in 15 to 18 markets...

How legacy trading platforms are taking after smartphones

May 20, 2019 at 8:51 p.m.

Imagine a smartphone that didn't allow you to choose which apps you installed. That's the experience many trading platforms offered for years. Now, some Chicago-based platform companies, including OptionsCity and...

Former Chicago Bear linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer poses for a portrait in front of Soldier Field.

Former Bear’s company gets $1.8 million from Chicago Ventures, others

May 20, 2019 at 8:51 p.m.

Overdog, a Nashville, Tenn.-based creator of apps that match online gamers to their ideal competitors, said Thursday it has raised $1.8 million from Chicago Ventures and others. The company expects...

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