The Next Web
JANUARY 30, 2014
George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. In many cases, these entrepreneurs are on the hunt for co-founders to help them build their businesses. The problem? What skills are you lacking?
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. Claudia: When I became a 40 Under 40 awardee of Crain’s Chicago Magazine earlier in my career, the plaque read: “it was English, not organic chemistry that dashed her hopes of becoming a physician.”
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The Next Web
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. Whose idea was it?
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 8, 2014
My name is Richard Simms and, I am a Cofounder of Tech Talent South. My Cofounder, Betsy Idilbi , and I started working on TTS about a year and a half ago and have been going a million miles an hour since then. We actually met taking some web development classes in Chicago. Who are you and what do you do?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. But your co-founder had been senior at one of the big enterprise software companies and if I remember correctly American Express had run a big pilot with you. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C. were more distributed. Seriously, this happens.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. To help you more effectively build your early teams, we asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams.
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