Peter Thiel: Chicago startups should embrace big ideas over big bucks
Chicago is home to some great businesses, but Peter Thiel says a focus on capital instead of ideas could be an obstacle to what he considers true greatness. And he's...
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Chicago Venture Summit makes its own pitch: Invest in city’s startups
Chicago put on a show for some of the country's top venture capitalists Wednesday, with a team of selected entrepreneurs enticing VCs with the city's success stories and J.B. Pritzker...
Chicago Ideas Week: Future Global Leaders on $3 birth kits, donating food
Twenty big thinkers from around the globe took the stage at the Cadillac Palace Theatre for the Chicago Ideas Week Future Global Leaders Summit on Tuesday afternoon. All but two...
Chicago-based Geofeedia raises $3.5 million in Series A funding
Geofeedia, a Chicago-based platform that helps agencies and organizations gather social media intelligence, announced Wednesday it has raised $3.5 million from institutional and angel investors. The Series A round brings...
Chicago Ideas Week: Don’t just think it, make it
Marc Landsberg, founder and CEO of Chicago-based social media agency Social Deviant, has strong feelings about ideas. That is, he thinks they're pretty useless. Instead of ideas, he wants actions,...
Risk I/O adds funding, new CEO
Threat vulnerability assessment platform Risk I/O raised $4 million and named a new CEO, the company announced Tuesday. The additional funding was driven by existing investor Palo Alto-based Costanoa Venture...
Chicago Ideas Week: The rising tide of social-impact investing
The fourth annual Chicago Ideas Week festival kicked off Monday morning with two events: one that taught attendees how to make mozzarella and another that looked at social impact investing....
SAIC molds today’s artists through new tools, traditional principles
New tools help students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago bring fantastic ideas to life: They design virtual structures, 3D-print household objects and craft garments out of...
Brooklyn Boulders: An active, dusty, gritty workspace comes to Chicago
Your workplace may have a gym, but does your gym have a place for working? A hybrid work-and-work-out facility is in the works in the West Loop from Brooklyn Boulders,...
Code and cupcakes: A woman developer gives back to moms, daughters
Jen Myers could not have foreseen an interest in studying computers or technology. She grew up near Alliance, Ohio, a small town about 60 miles southeast of Cleveland. Before enrolling...