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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. Looking forward to chatting.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and I bet you it's more than one bike if I had the gas. So did you, I'm envisioning you like going down the street in Chicago somewhere knocking on restaurant doors and saying, I have an idea, you want to like be part of this.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November.

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What Is Leadership?

YoungUpstarts

The following seeks to capture the essence of his conversation with this year’s Fellows: What is Leadership? It is easy to use a cookie-cutter job description; we need software engineers, here’s what a great software engineer looks like. I would follow him in a heartbeat. Creating a Great Team.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

These PPC (pay-per-click) experts are only paid if the terms they contribute lead to clicks and conversions for the advertiser’s site or service. . This site is a wonderful resource for Chicago-area with disabilities; essentially a version of Yelp targeted to folks who need special accommodation in their everyday life.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys!

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Another benefit was that I was able to complete two master’s degrees, one in Software Engineering, and another in Engineering Management. That exit conversation was memorable. My previous position held was as an independent sales representative at a small, outdoor advertising firm in Chicago.