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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

The top startup at this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois was Balodana , a fashion purchasing platform disrupting the women’s e-commerce fashion industry. I work in technology where the dress code is relaxed, but an executive woman my age can wear neither a hoodie nor a stuffy suit.). HQ Location : Chicago, Illinois.

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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. The rise of no-code and low-code tools means it’s never been easier to set up and build an online business. It took them two years to expand to their next city, Chicago. This includes the cost of a domain name, a logo, some development work.

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Twitter Link Roundup #48 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Chicago’s Digital Ten (companies) to Watch – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Good advice … How To Sell – [link]. Remixed – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #48 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Chicago’s Digital Ten (companies) to Watch – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Good advice … How To Sell – [link]. Remixed – [link].

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Basically if you didn’t code or sell, you were semi-worthless. Larry always had a 10-year technical vision that he could draw on the whiteboard or spin like a yarn.

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

Duct Tape Marketing

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and The Economic Club of Chicago. He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. So Jason, welcome back to the show.

Chicago 50
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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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