Data opening the door to innovation
One of the most powerful fuels to run the world's innovation engine is data. The spark of insight, the serendipitous discovery, the "aha" moment that leads to new products, stronger...
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10 thoughts every startup founder secretly has at least once
One of our earliest team members, who left to start his own company, sent us an email recently. I'll paraphrase here, but the gist of it was that despite his...
How one company survived the storms, together
Dal LaMagna could have retired after selling Tweezerman, his beauty-tools business, for a reported $57 million in 2004. Instead, after spending several years investing in various businesses, he took the...
8 relationship-saving tips for raising startup capital
Question: If you've raised startup capital from family or friends, what is one tip you'd give a fellow entrepreneur to make sure the deal doesn't affect the relationship? Underpromise and...
8 relationship-saving tips for raising startup capital
Question: If you've raised startup capital from family or friends, what is one tip you'd give a fellow entrepreneur to make sure the deal doesn't affect the relationship? Underpromise and...
Online job postings offer insight into the Illinois and Chicago labor markets
Last year, approximately one in every six external hires in the United States was attributed to an online job board. According to the Brookings Institution, the density of job postings...
How to strategically alter your product or app
Apps, products, and companies evolve over time. As technologists, we seek to improve our product by constantly optimizing one thing and tweaking the next. Although radical innovation will certainly help...
The mission: Teach 10 million kids – and end poverty
"This might sound crazy, but I didn't understand why people didn't think it was going to work," says Shannon May, co-founder of Bridge International Academies. In 2008, she and her...
12 questions you should ask when considering an accelerator program
Question: "What questions should entrepreneurs ask when considering an accelerator program?" What will I gain besides money? "All accelerators are going to offer some amount of seed money, but that's...