The Friday Exit: the October hustle and a founder’s wakeup call
A thought: What if Chicago had a full month of hundreds of events for entrepreneurs and innovators, keeping us running until we collapse in a pile of Halloween candy wrappers...
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Hillary Clinton, J.B. Pritzker talk job creation and more at Economic Club
Hillary Clinton wove stories of her Chicago roots with discourse on foreign and domestic policy in a discussion hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago on Wednesday night that drew...
The Friday Exit: Making, coding, building and burning in Chicago
It was maker and builder week at Blue Sky, starting with a pair of inventors we met at a recent Chicago Innovation Awards event. Joe Walsh and Kent Frayn were...
The Friday Exit: mental breaks, social media and ‘more engineers’
We run a lot of stories about how to manage the most powerful tool in today's economy: your brainpower, and that of your team. Yet I still went a year...
The Friday Exit: a global view on Chicago’s tech scene; Moto’s smartwatch
Kathy Bergen, who brings a business-reporting background to her current global reporting gig, takes a deep look this week at the startup-community successes of Israel, raising some provocative questions about...
The Friday Exit: Techstars, Technori and cashing out
August's quiet ended early with all the news out of Chicago's tech community this week. Techstars hosted its investor Demo Day and noted that at least a couple of companies...
The Friday Exit: Fast-growing companies and tests of endurance
The top 10 ways future generations are going to freak out when they discover how much we loved lists! I kid. Chicago holds 95 spots on the Inc. 5000 released...
The Friday Exit: $350 million for Trunk Club; notes from an epic bike trip
Nordstrom is buying Trunk Club, and now we know for how much: $350 million. The men's clothes shopping service, based in River North, was founded in 2009. Remind us what...
The Friday Exit: Easy, functional and empowering
Welcome back to the Friday Exit, Blue Sky's weekly wrapup where we review the busy workweek and look at what's ahead. We hope you enjoyed the new entries in our...
Welcome to The Friday Exit
Welcome to the Friday Exit, Blue Sky's weekly wrapup where we celebrate our successes, embrace our failures (obligatory for any startup!) and share what we learned during the busy workweek....