The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2020
In 1996, Jim left his career in the media industry—working with Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio and CLTV News—to become a full-time volunteer and teach individuals with disabilities how to scuba dive. TSM: Tell us about making that leap from a corporate media job to a startup. What were the first hurdles? Getting visibility?
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007. I love gadgets!
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David Teten
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine. We wanted to educated nonprofits about the importance of social media. We created ‘learn & do” sections where people can learn how to use social media for social good. We were seeing this movement towards causes on Facebook and elsewhere.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. I might also mention that she is a budding stand-up comic working the mic at clubs in Chicago and San Francisco. Chris is focused, loyal, flexible, and kind to everyone around him.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 11, 2011
She wraps up TEDGlobal 2007 opining on what they all mean for business-minded Africans and what still needs doing to stimulate their minds. Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media. Just because a video lasts less than five minutes, that doesn’t mean it has little to offer budding entrepreneurs.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Example: Thompson Chicago Hotel. This is the email you receive from Thompson Chicago Hotel after you stay with them… Image Source. They decided to change the email in three ways… They changed the font and layout so the email was no longer stuck in 2007. They added some simple social media links. The result?
Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 23, 2010
From Chicago’s Booth School of Business : The only two serial entrepreneurs in Chicago who can answer those questions have agreed to share what they know with students at Chicago Booth. via Chicago Booth News – Teaching the Secrets of Successful Serial Entrepreneurship.
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