YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

This year’s winner will be following in the coveted footsteps of the 2011 Great Lakes finalist and winner, Chicago-based Red Frog Events. Founded in 2000 by Jiri Stejskal, this translation and interpretation company offers services to government and corporate clients in almost 100 languages. Lakeland Feed and Supply (Northwest).

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Prior to joining Ocean Tomo, Mr. Geleerd was President and CEO of Terrapin Properties, LLC, one of Chicago’s leading real estate firms as well as one of Chicago’s largest and most active private companies. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, Mr.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Today is Finance Friday and post #2 has been drafted by the Finance Friday team from University of Chicago Booth and is waiting for my edits. In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page. that caused me to say “right on.&#

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yair Goldfinger, co-founder and CTO of Dotomi and a prominent Israeli angel investor, founded Dotomi back in 2000, following the acquisition of ICQ by AOL. Yair Goldfinger’s Dotomi sold to ValueClick for $295 million, of which $162 million are in cash and the rest will be paid in ValueClick equity.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

Kaplan of the University of Chicago Business School and Professor Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School. (vi) —Microsft, Apple, Google, Cisco—have been funded by venture capital.”. Source of (iii), (iv), and (v): “It Ain’t Broke: The Past, Present, and Future of Venture Capital ”, by Professor Steven N.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

These insights served him well in 1987 when he invested in a small Chicago video tape rental chain called Blockbuster. In 2000, he hired Mike Jackson as CEO, who in turn recommended simplifying the company’s business model to focus more on new car sales, and more in the premium categories. And to delegate.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

First, the largest (and only) paying client we had up until that point was my aunt in Chicago, who paid us $250 to build her company’s website. January 2000 comes around and we were knee-deep in building eQueenstown.com. Two things on this. What can I say, none of us were finance majors.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

In 2000, Mike co-founded AvidXchange and has been building it ever since. And, through our deep relationship with Techstars, our reach and network is even further and includes cities like Detroit, Kansas City, Austin, Chicago, San Antonio, and San Diego.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). Courseload, the digital-textbook start-up revived in 2009, was born in 2000, but its leaders say tools weren’t available to support it until more recently.)

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

After a few months working out and end jobs around Chicago, I met an extraordinary business consultant who helped me build my business from the ground up in exchange for social media services. So I went home to my comfortable 2000 square foot UWS apartment and thought, what can I do myself, from home, and still make a good living.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

I was a veteran in the outdoor advertising industry in chicago and decided to move back to my roots in Detroit and support/build the local economy in the city that made me. I sent out over 2000 resumes over about 3 months and got nothing. Thanks to David Pressler, Safe dooms ! #11- 11- The city needed my expertise.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. investing in Everlywell, Moderne Ventures (Chicago), and Wavemaker Partners (Singapore) to invest in Icon, and investors from Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado joined a Houston-based venture firm to invest in Televet, an Austin based Veterinary Clinic Management platform.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Stunning Graphic Design Styles: 1950 to 2000 Inspired Designs – [link]. Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link]. Top 50+ Infographic Tools for Creating Attractive Visuals – [link]. Designers: 9 Mistakes To Avoid For Successful Pitches! – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

We’ve had billion dollar exists in Chicago, Baltimore, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles an well as enormous winners also in New York and Las Vegas. Dating back to Upfront II in 2000 (the single best performing fund in the US for that vintage) 2 of our 3 best returns were driven by companies with female founders / CEOs.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Wyzant is a leading Chicago-based marketplace that connects tutors with students around the country. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. The company was founded by Andrew Geant and Mike Weishuhn in 2005.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 2, 2013

The LA Times and Chicago Tribune are for sale. In the US, newspaper revenues in 2012 were half what they were in 2000. BarryDiller recently announced that buying Newsweek was a mistake. They are not alone in their distress. Everyone is going online.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2013

But yes, there’s a time and a place for 2000-word, epic blog posts (like this one). Andy Crestodina is the Strategic Director of Orbit Media , a Chicago ecommerce company. If your copy is any longer than it needs to be to convey the meaning of page, you’re charging your visitors more than necessary. Align Pages with Phrases.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. What is the True Sentiment of VCs? The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. 14 years later, our company is 110+ employees strong, housed in TWO buildings in the Chicago suburbs, and we’re continuing to challenge the status quo in the promo products industry, just like we’ve been doing since day one! Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. And just to prove that it wasn’t all fun, this is me in Chicago basically doing some work. I’m not an adrenaline junky, but if you like bungie jumping go for it.

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In one of the experiments done by University of Chicago and MIT, a mail order catalog was printed in 3 different versions. What’s the best way to sell a $2000 wristwatch? Well, in eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49 One women’s clothing items tested was sold for $39.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The system is used by over 2000 companies in 30 countries, helping them to achieve better results in almost every digital marketing and sales field. I received my MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago and I’m a third-gernation small business entrepreneur. 29) Provide a solution to help small business owners.

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