Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Like most people, I’m a transplant from the North, with family roots in Chicago and New York and none in the South. If I’m being honest, while growing up the allure of Chicago and New York always left me with the “grass is always greener” syndrome.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The Happenstance app shares geolocated and little-known mini-podcasts about Chicago! It’s also important to know that Chicago is just our starting point!

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. Schonthal found that others in Chicago saw the vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. So by now you should know your industry’s market size & structure. But you should. Why wouldn’t you?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". That's what I fear when I see places like Berlin, Chicago, and Toronto putting on startup events--not enough anchors to make the whole thing stick and to turn the excitement into real opportunity.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

For that reason, on May 5 in New York, HBSAANY is going to co-host our first-ever pitch night with the Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association. Several key partners include HBSAANY, New York Angels, and others to be announced. . Details here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). I remember thinking then how much better it was than Chicago, where I'd spent the previous 8 years. Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

They reported 928 new woman-owned businesses as cropping up each day with more than 11 million woman-owned firms nationally. The research suggested the best states for startup activity included New York, Memphis and Dallas. The post Attention: Female Founders on the Rise appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Richard Zelson, from New York, New York, discussed MyStream , a music streaming app that allows multiple people to listen to the playlist of one individual, serving, roughly speaking, the function of a headphone splitter. He is also planning to launch in Boston and Chicago by December.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 20, 2015

Hundreds of offices in New York , Chicago , and as of today, San Francisco , are using Q to clean and manage their offices efficiently and cost effectively. . It’s also one reason I can’t wait for the fast follower, VC-incubated Q competition I keep hearing about to debut.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

Currently in Silicon Valley, Chicago, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, ReBoot Accel has helped over 600 women gain confidence, reset goals, and learn new skills – 82% of whom have landed jobs. They offer ongoing learning and access to a community of like-minded women, seminars and workshops.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

If you are a qualified candidate for a prominent accelerator or incubator program in your field of interest, and, if you get accepted, you should go. You have to chase Fortune 500 customers in places like Dallas, Atlanta, LA, NY, and Chicago by clever sales and marketing if you want to maintain your base in laid-back Austin.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I’ve often talked about the NY advantage of having the NY Times, WSJ, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Magazine and even the editor of TechCrunch based there.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

If you look in Los Angeles, you look in New York, you’re looking at different items that are local to those florists with their name and pictures,” says David. Like many other new entrepreneurs, neither David, Gregg, or Farbod had experience in entrepreneurship. From a budding idea to a blooming business.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. Clean tech leader Greentown Labs opened its new location in Houston this year, only the second location globally and the home to Greentown’s incubator program.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

1871 to launch incubator for female entrepreneurs – crowdspring.co/1gnuwsz. “Chicago’s venture funding performance is improving [but] Chicago is still trailing several major metro areas.” The Rise and Future of the New York Startup Ecosystem | Nick Beim – crowdspring.co/1gYew1W.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. Thankfully, Israel also happens to be a world-renown incubator for data scientists. In the case of Leadspace, data science expertise is also critical to the technology’s success.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

cities to start a business in for 2016 ), you will need to focus more on access to angel and venture capital funding, business incubators and accelerators, and a climate that is supportive of startups. Top 10 Hot Incubators to Join in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley Startup Incubation and Acceleration Meetup. Up New York City.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 23, 2011

I just finished reading a wonderful novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. It’s a brisk story told in first person by a young Indian entrepreneur. I won’t say much more about the story, but it’s a good one, and deserving of the accolades and prizes its received. Perfect airplane reading, and, it has me [.].

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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. Women In Good Company. Is that what you said? Melissa: OK.

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