Why startup firms should document their losses, and more tax tips
The April 15 tax-filing deadline is less than a month away. And the simple takeaway from a tax-advice session for startups this week at 1871 was this: Hire an accountant....
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What a Chicago financial nonprofit is doing to make itself become obsolete
A University of Chicago-based startup that teaches financial literacy to urban teens is hoping a new mobile app will help drive home the message. Moneythink CEO Ted Gonder said he...
Emmanuel Pratt’s mission to turn blight into farms and to grow entrepreneurs
As you turn south off 95th Street at Cottage Grove, you might miss the farm on your left. Most farms, after all, don't look like abandoned shoe factories. That will...
That Chicago v. Silicon Valley thing: There’s more to say about bootstrapping
Adrian Holovaty took a stand for the little guys at last week's CEC Startup Forecast. And he started a lively conversation in the process. In case you missed it, Holovaty,...
Company founded in Notre Dame dorm room wins $250,000 in Miller Lite event
TextPride, which makes branded stickers and emojis that mobile messaging apps can offer as paid upgrades, won top nationwide honors in Miller Lite's Tap the Future new-business pitch contest, announced...
8 Impact Engine businesses make their case to ‘build a better world’
Eight do-good-and-do-well startup companies, including one focused on moving surplus food to shelters and another focused on educating prisoners, made their pitches to more than 250 people, most of them...
TechNexus cranks up volume on corporate-startup collaboration
The dusty floors and half-finished walls may not look like much. But TechNexus, the downtown incubator that brings entrepreneurs and corporate innovators together, is eyeing the soon-to-open new space as...
How texting technology is reviving a building from a 1973 hit film
Who would have thought that the long-abandoned dance hall on the corner of 43rd Street and Calumet Avenue in the once-thriving neighborhood of Bronzeville might one day be saved with...
Startup school graduates make 1-minute pitches for jobs
The typical Chicago pitch contest involves hopeful entrepreneurs trying to win the room over to the idea that they are, if not the next Groupon, at least the next GrubHub....
The power in your hands: How to be part of the smartphone revolution
That smartphone in your hand carries the seeds of revolution. Such was the lofty message of Adam Gerber, speaking last week about "Mobile Technology and the Law of Market Information...