YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With free coffee and Internet, workspaces, and built-in community, coworking spaces provide a great place to get things done without feeling the isolation of working at home, or trying to overcome the frenetic nature of working in a coffee shop. startups, social media firms, advertising and PR companies, and more. Thinkspace.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. Entrepreneurs Unpluggd: Puts the Emphasis on Chicago Entrepreneurs’ Stories – [link]. Guerrilla to Genius: 300+ Creative Advertising Campaigns – [link]. Good to see innovation in delivering internet access to Africa (using voice control) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The Tech Scene in Chicago is Blooming – [link]. Opera users click on the most ads, followed by Safari Mobile, Internet Explorer, and Android | The Next Web – [link]. Microsoft’s Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising | HotHardware – [link]. . . | Vlaskovits – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Something new for the Chicago tech community – crowdspring.co/1bXLS29. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Want to succeed?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

The image above shows a map of the Internet, created by an anonymous researcher, who hacked hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in order to create the map. Tech Startup City: G2 Crowd in Chicago | Forbes – [link]. Half of What Online Advertisers Know About You Is Wrong – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Chicago-based BrightTag ranked #4! The accelerating crisis of advertising visual inventory | by Ben Kunz – [link]. 30 Inspiring & Creative Advertisements From Around The World – [link]. 40 Awe-Inspiring Print Advertising Posters | Graphic Design Junction – [link]. ” – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Chicago Entrepreneurism: Four Ingredients To Help Your Business – And This City – Dominate – [link]. 90+ creative advertising & design from January-February 2011 – [link]. Creative And Smart Ideas of Advertising For Inspirations – [link]. Internet Package Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2012

Events for women programmers in Chicago – [link]. How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet (and how integration kills innovation) – [link]. Advertising People Are The New Advertising Medium – [link]. Are Those Little Sharing Buttons the Future of Online Advertising? More Ads – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 3, 2010

19 Creative and Unusual Bus Stop Advertisements – [link]. 80 Extreme Advertisements That Will Challenge Your Mind – [link]. Another excellent video post by @bcopple about startup activity in Chicago – [link]. The future of advertising agencies: learnings from Forrester – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The image on the left is “The Bean&# in Chicago – photographed in HDR. 40 Creative Advertisement for Inspiration – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link]. Crowdsourcing Effective Advertising – [link]. 40 Creative Advertisement for Inspiration – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

VC funding in Chicago is down more than 40% – [link]. Internet Ad Revenues Again Hit Record-Breaking Double-Digit Annual Growth, Reaching Nearly $37 Billion – [link]. The disruptive potential of native advertising | by Felix Salmon – [link]. Social Ad Revenue To Grow 18.6% By 2017 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

An AMAZING amount of funding activity in Chicago – [link]. Good data from @msuster on The State of Venture Capital and the Internet – [link]. Globally, more people have access to Internet than to electricity (85% vs 80%) – [link]. Small business and startups: great reads from the business press – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

If you own a small business, you should know that internet marketing is essential to your company’s success. We like to thinking of geo-fencing as extremely advanced mobile advertising based on physical location. For example, say you own a wedding venue in Chicago. by Christopher Burres, owner of eWebResults.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up: Face-to-Face Interaction No matter how small the internet has made the world, experts still recommend in-person networking as the No. Wed say, "Hey, were going to be in Chicago. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 1 way to recruit talent. Were going to be in Japan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Startup fever grips Chicago companies, from Blues to law firms – [link]. Advertising is Dying. The internet has created a new industrial revolution – [link]. Not persuaded by arguments about early stage startups & org charts – [link] – Worry about getting s**t done. – [link]. Beautiful post.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

If I lived in Chicago, Berlin, or Madrid, I might not invest in startups at all. I avoid the entertainment industry, and anything where the revenue stream is based on advertising. If I had to drive to Palo Alto or Mountain View, I’d have to subtract two hours of soul-destroying driving from that return.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s undeniable how the Internet has revolutionized education , especially with the use of online video learning through sites such as Khan Academy.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

INC TV Video Slideshows Home Magazine Contact Us About Us Advertise Events Legal Disclaimers Privacy Policies Subscribe Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 1 | 2 | 3   NEXT More in: Job Descriptions How to Hire Legal Counsel For one reason or another, youre going to need an attorney at some point.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Now that we’ve got you primed for your next visit to Chicago, settle back and enjoy this great set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account )! The Internet, Visualized In Patent Sketches crowdspring.co/1LdMG3B. 1gRti01.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 2, 2013

The LA Times and Chicago Tribune are for sale. Advertisers pay less for online ads than they do for ones in print. This is a global trend: newspapers in Brazil, Germany and elsewhere are fed up with giving away their articles for nothing on the internet. BarryDiller recently announced that buying Newsweek was a mistake.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The Internet is trying to tell us something – [link]. Groupon’s value to Chicago goes beyond Google deal – [link]. Nearly half of all Twitter users don’t read a word you say – [link]. Smart post by @umairh about gamification and marketing – [link]. Marketing trends – [link]. The future of stories.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. I speak at SES Chicago and other conferences in US, Europe and Asia including SES, SMX and AdTech. Motoko Hunt.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I began placing advertisements on the website. Where am I today?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

So as a result, out of the basement of my house with NO money and only a hand-me-down laptop, cell phone, and borrowed internet connection from my neighbor, my business partner and I created Quality Logo Products. When I worked at Facebook, I worked with a variety of businesses and ad agencies that were advertising on the Facebook platform.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Well, if you happen to be a company in Chicago, search no more! Businesses use computers, smart phones, and networks like the Internet as tools in their day-to-day work. There are a good number of IT companies in Chicago that service small to medium sized businesses who range widely in quality of service.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

They’re serving their advertisers. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. 19) Advertising is flawed. When it boils down to it, I started Kiip because I believe that advertising in its current state is flawed. One less worry for moms.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

As I looked at my competition it felt as though each advertising law firm created advertisements that seemed very self-centered. I met with an advertising agency and we brain stormed several ideas that were consistent with this core value. Codal is a full-service UX design and development agency, based out of Chicago.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2004

Fred Wilson and John Battelle have some interesting posts on the future of television and advertising. Fred and John both seem to believe that the concept of paid search will eventually work its way into television advertising. Rather than assume it will all go away in the future, why not do something to make it more effective today?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 16, 2015

Technology’s Impact on Workers | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project – crowdspring.co/1BwA7Jp. 50 Chicago tech CEOs, founders, designers & hackers you should follow on Twitter: tinyurl.com/q85zsa7. 7 Of The Best Error Messages On The Internet | Co.Design | business + design crowdspring.co/1Bx5x1S.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2023

Although company names like Best Plumbers and Chicago Pizza might do well in the marketplace, they are not eligible for trademark protection since they are too generic or geographical in nature. It also gave us the added benefit of advertising our business anytime the name was mentioned. Photo Credit: Oliver Goodwin.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

They mix it up with advertising. It differs from advertising, in that with advertising, most of what you see, whether it’s a commercial on television, or an advertisement in a magazine, that is paid, and 99.9 You really need to see how you are placed on the Internet. percent of the time, editorial is not paid for.

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Brandanew

AUGUST 1, 2016

Show Guest : Nick Brennan is the Founder & CEO of Watch Social Media , a social media marketing firm based in Chicago, IL. The first guest we connected with, is Nick Brennan, founder and CEO of Watch Social Media – a boutique social media firm based out of the very Windy city of Chicago. Production : Brandanew.co

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

How Google Destroyed Internet Explorer, Visualized bit.ly/1Nactfq. ‘Liking’ Your Neighborhood Cafe on Facebook is Not Enough, Shop Owner Says dnainfo.com/chicago/201504…. Successful Business Owners Should Focus on “Five C’s” When Offering Services – Small Biz Daily bit.ly/1GLYIOM. entrepreneur.com/article/244517.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2016

The oversaturation of traditional advertising, coupled with a world of options at their fingertips has led millennials to essentially tune out unwanted interruptions. Rather than a traditional out-bound advertising model, you should be forming partnerships with online influencers that millennials already trust.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Most Internet marketing does not work that way. You’re essentially saying “Don’t worry about Internet marketing. The lowercase “i” comes from the iMac, where it originally stood for “internet” (now it just stands for “oh, an Apple product!”),

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

A batch of dodgy Tylenol pills, suspected of being laced with cyanide, killed seven people in Chicago in 1982. The result wasn’t as damaging for the brand as advertising experts predicted. She vacationed to a remote location with no internet, only for her social media scheduling tools to stop working the day she left.

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