The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Often times, a startup entrepreneur has a good business idea, but doesn’t know how to build the product or service. How to go about it? Or, they may know people who are looking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Chicago, IL.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

The image above is an interesting project from Strava, showing a heatmat of bike paths in the Chicago area. Here’s a link to the Chicago map, but you can easily navigate to another geographic area. With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1rWbako.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

The product lens - [link]. Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money | Built In Chicago - [link]. Chicago’s Startup Community Grows Outside Of Groupon’s Shadow | Chicagoist - [link]. Startups should look to hire from agencies | Technori- [link]. 10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2011

Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast – [link]. Study shows Chicago lacks strong tech investor base – [link]. Inspired By The Start Fund, New World Ventures Offers Chicago Excelerate Startups $50K – [link]. Retro designs are again in style for consumer goods product packaging – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

The Fundamental Challenge of Your Startup’s First Hire: Leading and Learning at the Same Time – [link]. Chicago’s most active entrepreneurial networking groups | Crain’s Chicago Business – [link]. Entrepreneurs always ask for help with hiring – here is some great advice: Hire Slowly – [link].

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Transformify

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We found an extreme talent in Adeel Ahmad who worked between Lahore, Pakistan and Chicago, Illinois at the time. Company culture and communication have a direct impact on team’s loyalty but what about productivity? Give this same thing to your remote workers and you’ll find that they can be just as productive.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Hire People Who Make Things Happen – crowdspring.co/1fMczta. Something new for the Chicago tech community – crowdspring.co/1bXLS29. Hire People Who Make Things Happen – crowdspring.co/1fMczta. A Web Designer’s Guide to Choosing Product and Business Names | Vandelay Design Blog – crowdspring.co/18Ga1qJ.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Hiring startup engineers? Six Things Physical Product Development Taught Me About Experience Design | UX Magazine – crowdspring.co/X7NCjD. Good long read on the history of Motorola | Chicago magazine – crowdspring.co/1nQMcBM.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A friend calls me up from: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, wherever and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Any hiring manager at a company who has any operational experience and common sense will never want to hire somebody remotely anyways.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

The ideal product manager – [link]. Stop whining and start hiring remote workers – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link]. CEC’s Startup Forecast – “Never been a better time to start a company in Chicago” – [link]. Mocked And Misunderstood – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). If you are interested the Vimeo is here. And so on down then line. If a company that would traditionally raise $500k at a $3.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. Good (short) video interview with Kevin Willer about the value 1871 Chicago offers entrepreneurs – [link]. Quora – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2020

by Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “ This is about a cover up — get it — planning with a mask…. As a product of planning, 80% of the companies that I am working with are actively hiring key employees. had to say that. A chance to be silly – we need that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc. Commitment.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2015

They have brilliant ideas, they’ve researched their market, they’ve pulled together teams to turn their ideas into products and bring them to market. It’s also important, particularly in the early stages, to hire people who can remain committed to the company through the ups and downs that startups experience.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Jobs: See more on our Job Board.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time - [link]. The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time – [link]. Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Ad agencies are discovering products like Columbus discovered America - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. 5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. Good to see increasing local VC investment activity in Chicago startups – [link]. – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

A startup may need to hire a lawyer to understand what the best strategy is given its particular technology space and to guard against being seen as an easy mark. John holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a BA from Harvard University.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Dan: It could work for anybody, but what we’re doing right now is we’re focusing on the music industry; because we’re actually running the premium fan site for the 70′ band Chicago right now, and they’re super happy with it so we decided to focus on musicians. How do I get people to know about it?”

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

Let’s learn more from Sam and Nasutsa in their own words… TSM: Describe your product/service in 10 words or less: Nasutsa: We provide Fire & Water Damage Restoration, Specialty Cleaning, Disinfection and Decontamination. She was in commercial real estate development and myself in national television production.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Why Chicago is the Best Place to Start a Digital Startup - [link]. desperation for software talent has moved even small and midsize tech companies to make acqui-hires.” – [link]. Product searches on Amazon have grown 73 percent over the last year while searches on Google Shopping have been flat” – [link].

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Not everyone is going to be the right fit for your product, and a key aspect of brand strategy involves focusing on the exact people who will love your product… and ignoring everyone else that is not your target audience. What were their pain points, and how did your product solve their problems? Identify your target audience.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We actually met taking some web development classes in Chicago. I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. Both Betsy and I come from entrepreneurial backgrounds before starting TTS. Nice growth!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). People often ask me what VCs look for when we hire partners and many have asked how to become VCs themselves one day. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. The Power of the Rule of Three in Marketing Your Small Business – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

How to hire a programmer when you’re not a programmer – [link]. Simply being *usable* is enough to make a product truly remarkable – [link]. Chicago Entrepreneurism: Four Ingredients To Help Your Business – And This City – Dominate – [link]. Site Speed – Are You Fast? Does it Matter?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

As with any company, growth happens in stages, but especially a company with physical products. Research and development, sample making, marketing the product and perhaps even handling some of the preliminary sales are some of the stages of expansion. My first goal was to establish a strong distribution channel here in the US.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

An AMAZING amount of funding activity in Chicago – [link]. Interesting thoughts from Wieden+Kennedy: Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists – [link]. Small business and startups: great reads from the business press – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Coupon Cactus – [link].

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Tell us about your products and services. My company is a boutique Chicago-based PR firm. We actually guarantee a set amount of placements each month, depending on the size of the retainer that a client hires us for. and then we moved back to Chicago in 2013. How do you help clients? . No a la carte or surprise billing.

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Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2015

10 productivity hacks (so you get more done in less time). Connect with her and find out more about her book, hiring her to speak at your next event, or engaging her as a coach at www.laragalloway.com or on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: @mombizcoach. She loves living in Michigan, especially when it’s 80 degrees and sunny.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

First, there’s the external trust between an organization and its customers: Will a company stand behind its products? The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

“Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link]. “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” Chicago-based BrightTag ranked #4!

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