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Shilpi Kumar added that health and well being are important work motivators. | Chris Dale, Manager of Global Communications for Google and YouTube, goes down a slide at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif.

How workplace design looks to Groupon, Gogo and Herman Miller

May 20, 2019 at 7:26 p.m.

Collaboration areas, whiteboard walls and spaces for private conversation drive workplace design at Groupon and Gogo, company officials said at a panel discussion Thursday. Even amid fast growth, Chicago-based Groupon...

640 Labs harvests data on farming straight from tractors

May 20, 2019 at 7:24 p.m.

Farm equipment is joining the Internet of Things. Big data startup 640 Labs has created a device that attaches to tractors and other farm equipment to measure activity during planting...

KarmaKrowd, a new crowdsourcing platform, aims to provide legal services to protect consumer ideas and even marketing and public relations services to increase exposure.

What KarmaKrowd aims to do that other crowdfunding sites don’t

May 20, 2019 at 7:21 p.m.

New Chicago-based platform KarmaKrowd aims to combine crowdfunding with the legal services to protect an idea and marketing and public relations services to promote it. Founder Cindy Summerfield began her...

Rick Fezell, Midwest Managing Partner for Ernst & Young

Executives’ Club plans women’s inclusion discussion with men

May 20, 2019 at 7:11 p.m.

Another all-male panel is ready to focus on the business world's female question. The Executives' Club of Chicago will host "Women's Inclusion Begins With Men" on May 1 over breakfast...

Purple tang and yellow tang fish are salt water aquarium favorites.

5 lessons for when you have a product idea, but no company (yet)

May 20, 2019 at 7:12 p.m.

Nathan Levine walked into a Startup Weekend event early last month with an idea for a connected sensor device that could monitor changes in pH, temperature and salinity in a...

How a new software tool helps small businesses do performance reviews

May 20, 2019 at 7:09 p.m.

Enterprise companies have sophisticated systems to identify and track their best employees. Small businesses often lack the resources to assign people to the task. With a new software tool called...

A tech panel of all men, aimed at women. So how did that go?

June 18, 2018 at 9:58 a.m.

If there's one thing missing from the conversation about women in tech, it's men. Wait, did we hear that right? A crowd of 250 — nearly all women — filled...

A tech panel of all men, aimed at women. So how did that go?

May 20, 2019 at 7:09 p.m.

If there's one thing missing from the conversation about women in tech, it's men. Wait, did we hear that right? A crowd of 250 — nearly all women — filled...

Tashay Burns plants tomatoes at the Gary Comer Youth Center.

How Kimbal Musk brings garden classrooms to Chicago Public Schools

May 20, 2019 at 7:07 p.m.

It's best to perfect a system in one city before expanding it, said entrepreneur Kimbal Musk at a fundraiser for his non-profit The Kitchen Community on Thursday night at DIRTT...

Jeremy Smith, co-founder of SpotHero, used a scooter to get around 1871 when he and partner Mark Lawrence worked out of the coworking space in 2012.

1871 graduates find their way in new ‘real world’ offices

May 20, 2019 at 7:06 p.m.

Many of Chicago's aspiring young companies find their footing within the comfortable confines of 1871, surrounded by mentors and peers. After a time, however, the need for a space of...

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