Kellogg, Booth students show increased interest in working at startups
Picture a job fair at Kellogg or Booth, and it's easy to imagine the biggest U.S. corporations swooping into Evanston and Hyde Park to pluck talent from two of the...
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Options Away founder talks mobile travel trends at Technori Pitch
The online travel business is racing to catch smartphone-tethered millennials, while at the same time staying ahead of Google's plans to dominate the sector. And smart travel entrepreneurs are riding...
Chicago: City of makers
LATEST: FIREHOUSE BATS | Chicago is on the forefront of this movement. And we're on the trail of some of the city's most innovative makers.
Firehouse Bats designs a handmade baseball bat business
The fortuitous discovery of a battered old lathe in the basement of a firehouse by a curious teenage baseball player is the starting point for one of the latest Chicago...
TechNexus joins Homeland Security search for first-responder gear
Chicago venture collaborative TechNexus is joining a Texas startup accelerator in a U.S. Department of Homeland Security pilot program to develop innovative gear for emergency first responders. The two firms...
Chicago Innovation Awards winners help ring out trading day at Nasdaq
Representatives of about two dozen Chicago-based companies got a nice perk Monday as winners of the 2014 Chicago Innovation Awards: They were on hand for the bell ringing that signals...
ITA Internet of Things Council aims to make Chicago a connectivity hub
A new Illinois Technology Association initiative strives to make Chicago and the Midwest an "epicenter" of the fast-growing Internet of Things tech sector. The ITA on Wednesday announced the Internet...
SXSW: Booth’s New Venture Challenge ranks No. 4 among U.S. accelerators
The New Venture Challenge at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business ranks fourth among U.S. startup accelerators, according to the latest rankings from the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project....
SXSW: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti trumpets power of sharing over clicking
AUSTIN, Texas — Online news media company BuzzFeed cares more about how its content is shared than how many people are watching it. It also increasingly cares less about driving...
SXSW: ‘Lean Startup’ author Eric Ries to sell new book only on Kickstarter
AUSTIN, Texas — Entrepreneur and bestselling "The Lean Startup" author Eric Ries used a SXSW appearance Monday to promote a followup book available for sale only on Kickstarter. Ries described...