YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But while there is plenty of great educational material out there on the Web, the problem is locating it; in fact, it is said that about 66-percent of time spent learning online is wasted simply looking for the right Internet sources. MentorMob is bootstrapped and has 12 employees.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Drew Myler is Interaction Designer at Signal , a Chicago-based provider of mobile marketing technology. This article is part of Drew’s series, 12 Days of Ideas: Building and Marketing Web Products, published his personal blog. A company lives and dies by its revenue stream, especially when trying to bootstrap the business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! chicago crushes it! city with the biggest VC returns: Chicago [link]. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) March 22, 2018.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Freshman are a piece of paper to beta site (bootstrap financed—raise $50K to $500K). You can follow George on Twitter at @georgedeeb and @RedRocketVC.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Well, if you happen to be a company in Chicago, search no more! There are a good number of IT companies in Chicago that service small to medium sized businesses who range widely in quality of service. It was during this time that the “snowpocalypse” hit Chicago. What are some industry specific challenges you faced?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why You Need Marketing Analytics, Not Web Analytics – [link]. Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link].

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Having launched my bootstrap startup earlier this year my motivation to grow the business is to get beyond the initial MVP/ POC stage. Thanks to Nick Antonopoulos, SEO Digital Chicago ! #26- That deep-seated belief will tell you to push through, that everything will be worth it in the long run. Thanks to Saskia Ketz, Mojomox ! #17-

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “Chicago’s venture funding performance is improving [but] Chicago is still trailing several major metro areas.” 15 Best Bootstrap Design Tools – crowdspring.co/1ncKgIa.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above shows a typical rush hour in Chicago in 1909. Why the Best Entrepreneurs and Creators are Humble | The Next Web - crowdspring.co/1e9b5t3. 1lNUUDJ - crowdspring.co/1lNUWLN.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. 21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “With luck the latest web bubble will do less damage than its predecessor&# – [link]. Turning an Addiction into a Bootstrapped Startup – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Lightbank Aims To Change The VC Game As It Expands Its Investments Beyond Chicago | TechCrunch – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

I think part of it, initially, would just be to have a presence on the web and the ability to say, “Hey, if you want to. ” Just adding a Google map to a website, I mean, you might as well just be a web developer and charge $100 an hour and have a WordPress template and knock us out and charge them $5,000. Jason: No, no.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

from David Dalka - Creating Revenue and Retention - Chicago GSB MBA As discussed in my recent post about a TiE event on Chicago start ups, there are many factors to consider when taking in funding and employees. Web startups, which I presume is the kind of main interest amongst your readers, can be started completely without VC's.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Bootstrapping your business. If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. Using a side business to bootstrap your startup. Let’s begin.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Patrick: CRM is a very rich space with a lot of different players in it as we’re talking about finding that niche I’m reminded of a company in Chicago that makes a rich CRM product that works more with Microsoft products where the focus is on the professionals. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

His web site, Goins Writer has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world, and Jeff’s book, The Art of Work, has been highly praised by such business gurus as Michael Hyatt, Seth Godin, so I think you guys are really in for a treat here with the content that Jeff is going to be presenting to you today.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 16, 2015

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! 50 Chicago tech CEOs, founders, designers & hackers you should follow on Twitter: tinyurl.com/q85zsa7. 11 Bootstrap UI Editors For Developers crowdspring.co/1Dkibmy.

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