The Friday Exit: All tech gadgets and gift-giving
If we can't have sunshine in December, at least we have consumerism to brighten our days. We browsed on your behalf with a series of Gadget Guides that included both...
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The Friday Exit: Uber and other disruptions in motion
It's hard to top a day that started with a swank sideways elevator and ended with a Blue Sky event trending on Twitter in Chicago, but that was just Monday....
The Friday Exit: Why you need to be confident but coachable
This will surely be our Quote of the Year: "You have to be able to balance coachability with megalomania." I know I've always felt that way. Coachability is such an...
The Friday Exit: All the pumpkin you can eat, and a tracker to count it
Are we over pumpkin yet? Apparently not. Keri Wiginton went looking for pumpkin products and found them practically piled on top of each other. There was also at least one...
The Friday Exit: Chicago’s elite PrivateBank sets sights on tech
Chicago-based The PrivateBank is launching a tech-focused banking group, which I have a Joe Biden-like impulse to call a BFD. First, there's a lot of talk about the potential impact...
The Friday Exit: How to sell others on your dreams
Is there an innovator alive who hasn't gotten their share of blank stares when they start to share their idea? It's never easy to explain something that isn't just more...
The Friday Exit: To succeed in business, make a few new friends
Ever feel like a fake when you're networking? This was a message for students, but it applies to many professionals, too, because we seem to forget it no matter how...
The Friday Exit: Innovation characters take stage; incubators ignite
The Chicago Innovation Awards celebrated both established and rising companies Thursday at the Harris Theater with spectacle and applause for stories of striving and success. Founders Tom Kuczmarski and Dan...
The Friday Exit: GrubHub, Groupon Pages and Chicago’s ambitions
Does technology inspire thoughts of transformative change, or just easy delivery of food beyond pizza? PayPal co-founder and now provocateur Peter Thiel spoke with reporter Amina Elahi while in town...
The Friday Exit: Chicago’s extended pitch for big ideas and investments
So this happened: Ideas ricocheted, venture capitalists descended, a reporter interviewed a robot, iPads slimmed, Microsoft landed, Google delivered and Blue Sky turned 1. Chicago Ideas Week was everywhere and...