crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

You’ll want to do everything you can to foster the success of your new business. Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. We’re partial to Chicago. Here’s a good look at coworking spaces in Chicago. Accounting.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

25 miles southwest of Chicago. It allows participants to avoid the many pitfalls — including a lack of investment and a shortage in the mentoring support needed to build strong business plans — that can torpedo great ideas. Emergy , another winner, has an agreement with a company to test its bio-designed activated carbon.

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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…. Since growing up in his family’s boating business to founding his company CMI , Bruce Hodes has dedicated himself to helping companies grow by developing high performance cultures.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

by Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. Since growing up in his family’s boating business to founding his company CMI , Bruce Hodes has dedicated himself to helping companies grow by developing executive leadership teams, business leaders and executives into powerful performers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2017

by Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. What has eluded me is a process that supports the implementation of the strategic plan. A lot of time and energy goes into yearly planning. Managers, at best, find it flawed and not well designed or executed. They are lofty and inspirational.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2016

By Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. Since growing up in his family’s boating business to founding his company CMI , Bruce Hodes has dedicated himself to helping companies grow by developing executive leadership teams, business leaders and executives into powerful performers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

I am very happy to announce today a new program I’ve been working on designed to support women and diverse entrepreneurs, particularly those in the technology sector. Pioneering Program Launched by Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York and the National Association of Investment Companies.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2013

Those were fun, relaxing, and rejuvenating experiences, but they were designed to be comfortable and real vacations. In Chicago, both at work and in my personal life, my life is planned out. Being Uncomfortable. The Patagonian adventure took me out of my comfort zone, and this concept is the essence of “getting away.”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. After working in architecture, furniture and design for 15 years, I came up with an idea that lead me into the NYC World of Tech and am now solving missed connections. Thanks to Jason Bond, Jason Bond Picks ! #6 6 – Investment Banker.

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2016

Designed to keep customers coming back for more, at its core this tactic is a loyalty program. When you subscribe to one of their three service packages, you’ll get access to last-minute blowout appointments at top tier hair salons in New York and Chicago. Take business to the next level. Have you started planning your business?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2011

From the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business: When Scott Freedman came to Chicago Booth as a student in the Full-Time MBA Program two years ago, he set out to create a start-up medical company using his background as the designer of orthopedic medical devices.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. We had a chance to interview Aristotle Loumis and asked about his story, how he started his business and the future of Ellison. Why did you start your business? Where do you see your business in the next 3-5 years?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

by Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “ Our planning session was occurring and there he was. My plan was during the break to go and pick them up, and then there he was. A Hilton employee quietly entered with copies in his hand.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

By Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. When we returned to the cable car that was to take us back to Quito I saw an Ecuadorian youth with a Chicago bull’s jacket. As I passed him, in Spanish, I said I am from Chicago. Or maybe it was because I’m from Chicago? I was a rock star!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The concept is simple: Incubators — usually nonprofits supported by economic-development organizations — help launch businesses by offering shared work space (often at below-market rates), tools, resources and training in the form of classes and seminars. Ted Schultz, 56, owner of Hylan Design Ltd. in Chicago, can attest to that.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

by Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “ What follows may not sound like an article on business. Now for a bit of business background – more patience, please. This company got the design right and real growth ensued. I request some patience and leniency.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2013

Instead of packing up, I’m pacing the 50,000 square feet halls of 1871 in Chicago , still a bit scared, still totally freaked out - about living on a bus with complete strangers. Here’s the bus schedule: Sunday – Departs Chicago for Nashville, TN. Know your role, Chicago Startup Guy. Chicago Startup Guy.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I got into entrepreneurship because as a graphic and web designer, I wanted to have more control over the projects I worked on, and the people I worked with. Even though, as designers, we usually have design parameters from our client’s and their brand guide, we can control who we target, and who we work with.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When my father had his business plan all set up, he brought it to the rabbi and got a benediction for a successful business. When he left the neighborhood, he decided that because he got a benediction from the rabbi in Crown Heights, he’d name his business (CrownTV’s parent company) Crown Heights.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

When it comes to design, Jed Darland has the sensibility of an artist, and the ingenuity of an inventor. When it comes to business, he’s an opportunist in the best sense of the word. Jed knows how to seize the moment, turn downtime into a new venture, and that venture into a successful business. With Brian Wyrick of Robot Paper.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

I read way too many business plans with overly optimistic projections. I'm talking plans showing the entrepreneurs generating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in just a few years. Groupon, on the other hand, used the more traditional geographic expansion plan.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2016

Step 1: Creating a business plan for your spa. You will also need a solid business plan to help you identify your potential costs and create a roadmap that you can follow. Below are some of the key decisions a business plan can help you make. Market and promote your businesses to attract new clients.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

Designed as an online “community marketplace,” BloomNation allows customers and florists to come together, giving florists a platform to sell their works of art, and consumers a vehicle to purchase beautiful flowers from local vendors, conveniently and quickly. From a budding idea to a blooming business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed. It was all technical.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2012

These are all high-design, high-functionality tools that we personally use and recommend, so … (our two mottos:) If we don’t use them, we won’t sell them! We’re both lawyers by training and experience, and we appreciated the simplicity and comprehensiveness of the agreements that crowdSPRING designed. Nothing major.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Ashley’s interviewing idea is a good one … last night I shot the s**t with the Startup Grind King of Chicago, Tom Denison. I heard Andreesen is pouring money behind apps to be designed specifically for Glass. Mooney already wears spectacles which I imagine is a huge advantage to Glass Explorers along the learning curve.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2018

This primer is designed to help entrepreneurs understand VCs a little better in the hopes that we can have more meaningful interactions and avoid some of the blunders that cost entrepreneurs a funding opportunity. There were, in fact, a lot of competitors, and by stating they were the first, the best, etc.,

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This primer is designed to help entrepreneurs understand VCs a little better in the hopes that we can have more meaningful interactions and avoid some of the blunders that cost entrepreneurs a funding opportunity. There were, in fact, a lot of competitors, and by stating they were the first, the best, etc.,

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy. The “encroachment&# of business or engineering on design is (theoretically) dependent on the driving force, rather than personal bias.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

In addition to creating a solid business plan, getting incorporated and a whole host of other things, a lot of your time will probably be taken up thinking about how to fund your new venture. Just like Etsy, eBay is incredibly flexible, which makes it a great side business. The company has now earned around $1.65

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Or what if a new brilliant idea that you hadn’t considered when you were planning emerges? Build in fluidity to your business plans. I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process.

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