The Friday Exit: Leap into The Vault
Did you ever launch something and host an event on the same day? Pro tip: It's fun. However. Never do it. OK! So Blue Sky opened The Vault this week,...
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Blue Sky Innovation unlocks The Vault with 100 top Chicago innovators
Blue Sky Innovation enters a new phase Wednesday with the launch of The Vault, a new portal for your business life that will grow to include a range of resources....
The Friday Exit: engineering education that will ‘unleash young people’
What kind of engineer does the world need? An entirely different one, says David Goldberg, who co-founded ShareThis at the University of Illinois. After World War II, he says, "we...
The Friday Exit: Do the thing that needs doing
What irks you? And are you building something to fix it? Melissa Pierce counted nine movies including Steve Jobs and none about tech pioneer Grace Hopper. She's making that movie....
The Friday Exit: the morning after a really bad decision
Blue Sky Universe loves failure, right? Makes sense. You can't only have perfect new ideas (oh, but if only!). But sometimes lost in the "failure happy talk" is how awful...
The Friday Exit: From Mattel football to ContextMedia
This is one for the olds: Do you ever wonder what you might have invented if you had grown up with access to the Internet and not just Mattel Electronic...
The Friday Exit: Women in tech and entrepreneurial expats
Does an incubator only for women-owned businesses make sense? Is it wanted, even by women? Are there other, better ways to drill down and solve specific problems that women founders...
The Friday Exit: Put smarter brainstorming on your to-do list
Ah, the joys and pains — mostly pains, it seems — of brainstorming. Everyone sits in a room with three ideas in their head and 300 worries about ways this...
The Friday Exit: Behind the scenes at ‘Shark Tank’ and Braintree
Student entrepreneur Kaeya Majmundar had a brutal pitch session with the celebrity investors on ABC's "Shark Tank," reports Kate MacArthur. But she ended up getting a deal for her BZBox...
The Friday Exit: Closing the door on the year in tech
Is everyone watching "The Wire" this week, or am I just surrounded by too many journalists? The HBO marathon was a reminder of how much technology has changed in our...