crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 9, 2017

Even though the University of Chicago does not have a school of engineering, it has become a leading startup university. Groupon, GrubHub, Braintree Financial and other high growth, student created firms have come of of the University of Chicago in recent years and the end is nowhere in site.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. and North Park University. mt of CO2 emissions.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

starting the global social commerce movement and changing the face of commerce forever. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. I decided I wasn’t passionate about running an ad-supported business and sold my stake to my co-founder. I built the eCommerce engine myself and self-funded the business.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40. Panelists: Jeff Kupietzky MBA 98, CEO, Oversee.net.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Who’s next?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Global Fashion Group (3x HBS, 2x Wharton).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It also had to reflect our plans for global expansion. My wife and I met in college in Indiana and soon after graduation, decided we were going to move to Chicago. Alkalign is a holistic health and wellness brand that currently operates multiple boutique fitness studios and offers online group health coaching. Photo Credit: Joe Horan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Her work has appeared in Entrepreneur, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Chicago Public Radio, and the Financial Times. Her work has appeared in Entrepreneur, the Wall Street Journal, npr, Chicago Public Radio, and The Financial Times. That's Chicago Public Radio, isn't it? Oh, that's the second addition.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals can connect and collaborate remotely.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. Thanks to Alexi Venneri, Digital Air Strike ! #6) 22) Self-Sufficient.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Thanks to Steven Randall, Vonya Global ! #8-Provide How the design and structure of the website played a role in usability as well as search engine rankings, working with the outreach team to create great content that would help build valuable links, making sure emails matched the style of the optimized landing pages, and so much more.

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