BloomNation raises $5.5 million in Series A funding
BloomNation, a Los Angeles-based floral delivery startup that has University of Chicago roots, announced Tuesday it had raised $5.55 million to close its Series A funding. The round was led...
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LegacyComplete takes first place in South Side Pitch competition
Companies that focused on estates, investors and hip-hop celebrities came away winners in last week's South Side Pitch competition at the Chicago Innovation Exchange Sky Deck. First place went to...
Higher education choices and pay
The corporate world continues to reward employees for master's degrees in business administration. A Graduate Management Admission Council survey showed that the expected starting salary for recent MBA graduates in...
Chicago Ideas Week tickets on sale Tuesday
Tickets will go on sale to the public Tuesday for Chicago Ideas Week, which will include speakers David Gregory, the recently replaced host of "Meet the Press"; Evanston-raised actress Joan...
Back to school with tech gadgets fit for the office, too
Going back to school is big business. Millennials are willing to put an average of more than $900 toward school supplies and tech, according to a National Retail Federation survey....
Technori Pitch: 8 principles for innovation in a corporate ecosystem
Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing technology and innovation at Kimberly-Clark Corp., said at Tuesday night's Technori Pitch event that he often would hear the company's chief marketing officer, Clive...
9 ways to get the best employees, get coverage and get funded
Entrepreneurs rank hiring the best people, earning press coverage and winning funding highest among their many concerns, according to a Chicago Innovation Awards survey. The group hosted a series of...
How 826CHI is using Kickstarter to help fund a better ‘spy’ store
In the world of espionage, you never want to share too much. Yet when 826CHI looked for funding to move and expand The Boring Store — its playful and creative...
Toilets, colorful pants and purpose and culture in the workplace
You can find meaning in scrubbing toilets, but you can't force Colorful Pants Day. CEOs shared that wisdom and more at Chicago Creative Space's Ethos 3.0 event late last week...
Chicago bike design comes up short in U.S. contest, but could live on
Chicago's "Blackline" didn't get the vote. Seattle's "Denny" did. The Oregon Manifest announced Monday that the Seattle-built bike won the organization's The Bike Design Project, a national online-voting competition to...