Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

From Chicago’s Booth School of Business : The only two serial entrepreneurs in Chicago who can answer those questions have agreed to share what they know with students at Chicago Booth. via Chicago Booth News – Teaching the Secrets of Successful Serial Entrepreneurship.

Cofounder 61

Cofounder Chicago Founder IPO 61

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. And, through our deep relationship with Techstars, our reach and network is even further and includes cities like Detroit, Kansas City, Austin, Chicago, San Antonio, and San Diego.

North Carolina 70

North Carolina Finance Charlotte Advisory Board 70

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. The very best entrepreneurs will look for experience in their investor base as this correction takes hold. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. The very best entrepreneurs will look for experience in their investor base as this correction takes hold.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. After a few months working out and end jobs around Chicago, I met an extraordinary business consultant who helped me build my business from the ground up in exchange for social media services. Photo Credit: Jim Tobin.

Entrepreneur 76

Entrepreneur Social Media Liquidity Event Private Equity 76

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Before Giftly, Dan was a Booth Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. Dan has a B.A. with Honors) in Political Science and an M.A. It’s awesome to have you. Why is that?

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Other noteworthy and emerging labor marketplaces: HackerOne (*) is the leading global marketplace that coordinates the world’s largest corporate “bug bounty” programs with a network of the world’s leading hackers.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Let me start with the simplest explanation for anybody who didn’t take economics in university (for my sins I took it for 7 years at UCSD and then University of Chicago). Even Sequoia.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2011

Inside Threadless HQ in Chicago I’ve spent a great deal of time wrestling with the idea of developing useful, real life marketing strategies for small businesses and have concluded that there are a handful of characteristics that can be mined, explored and shaped in order to make marketing strategy the foundation of business building.

Marketing 74

Marketing Social Media Small Business Engineer 74

Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

Soon, we were getting referrals in states (outside of Phoenix, where I was at the time) and instead of telling those clients no (because I realized if I said no, they would find someone else) I flew to the different areas, reached out to my network and would hire and train sitters in those cities. 26) The Great Recession.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Houston Software Review LLC 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers. Stick with it the same way you “didn’t get” Twitter in 2007 when you signed up but by 2009 you were using it effortlessly. But get on the treadmill.” Use Snapchat.

Video 150

Video South Africa Naming Kuwait 150