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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

I got a bunch, but one that stood out was from a group of incoming MBA students at the University of Chicago Booth. In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November. I know that theres a lot of GroupOn bashing still in the press, but you can’t deny the kickstart its had on the local Chicago tech community.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC? These are industries that start to open up new commercial zones like Cincinnati (home to P&G & Kroger) and Chicago. Deflationary Economics now favors us. ”).

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. Software is eating the whole world and in 10 or 20 years, if you don't know how to program it [will be] like 50 years ago not knowing how to read and write.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

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. Their member designers, copy-writers, and creative directors battle it out for their ideas in the company’s Squirrel Fight. JJ’s List.