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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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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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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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Workplace Flexibility Boosts Remote Teams’ Loyalty

Transformify

The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. We found an extreme talent in Adeel Ahmad who worked between Lahore, Pakistan and Chicago, Illinois at the time. We found ourselves with a large project and the need to bring in a new team in order to be able to take it on.

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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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Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off

Diego Basch

This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. When asked to hike between New York and Chicago, he will be much more accurate.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

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. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs.