crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

If the number of coworking spaces in a city is is any indication of its entrepreneurial health, Chicago is firing on all cylinders. Based on a recent survey by Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and Chicago Creative Space there are 41 coworking spaces in the city, covering a staggering 868,124 square feet of space. 20 N Upper Wacker Dr #1200.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. In addition to being the third largest startup hub in the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

I got a bunch, but one that stood out was from a group of incoming MBA students at the University of Chicago Booth. In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. In addition to being the third largest startup hub in the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

Examples of the tasks performed by the Turk community include translation, transcription, image tagging and even searches for missing persons. is the first company to devise s system to effectively crowdsource SEO (search engine optimization) services. JJ’s List. A buyer works with the team to plan.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Money wasn’t an obstacle for the Chicago-based founder, but as a black woman in technology, networking in a new city might be. “We Fortunately, it was around the same time that Brooks connected with Kathryn Finney of Digital Undivided , a community outreach program with the mission of getting black women started in tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money | Built In Chicago - [link]. Chicago’s Startup Community Grows Outside Of Groupon’s Shadow | Chicagoist - [link]. How Facebook’s Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired – [link]. | PandoDaily - [link]. The product lens - [link].

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Before becoming a business owner I used to be a manager at the Boeing company and managed a team of engineers working on the 787 Dreamliner. I personally lived 20 years in the gray jail cells of corporate America as an engineer before I escaped. I also love that it’s a community, and how entrepreneurs help each other.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. 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. However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

Long-tail keyphrases – web design ohio, seo guest posting strategies, local marketing chicago illinois, responsive wordpress theme templates (more focused and specific to target audiences). 2) Don’t write content for the search engines. Search engine bots come by to scrape your content on a regular basis.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

CEC’s Startup Forecast – “Never been a better time to start a company in Chicago” – [link]. The best engineering flow chart ever – [link]. The Butcher & Larder whole animal butcher shop in Chicago - [link]. Mocked And Misunderstood – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

At the launch of the company, the core email community (people with a lot of technical understanding) was our target audience. Donating a portion of all our profits to veteran and cancer research charities establishes our brand as a revolution in companies that give back to the community rather than leech off of their customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2011

If you’re wondering about how small business view bank loans, this infographic from Chicago, Illinois-based credit card processing fee comparison engine FeeFighters shows that only 42-percent of small businesses see bank loans as a viable financing option. Community banks used to lend to small local businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. “The With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

There are obviously lots of differences, but creating an environment in which those people thrive and can collaborate together, it’s a new type of community basically. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. A lot of them do not have the engineering talent that companies in the Valley do.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

There are obviously lots of differences, but creating an environment in which those people thrive and can collaborate together, it’s a new type of community basically. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. A lot of them do not have the engineering talent that companies in the Valley do.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Search Engine Watch. Social Media Community Management Social Commerce Social Integration Social Media Smarts. SES Chicago. Community Management. Community Management. ); //. Marketing News & Expert Advice. ClickZ Awards. ClickZ.asia. ClickZ Academy. SES Events. Subscribe to Newsletters. Touch Edition.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Kevin Willer Shares His Experience Building Google’s Culture In Chicago – [link]. Spot on by @dhh about school pedigree and computer engineers. Building Startups Is Like Baking A Cake In 3 Minutes – [link]. What Good Does Design Do For Business? – [link]. Prior work speaks loudest – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I was at a dinner recently in Chicago and the table discussion was about building great companies outside of Silicon Valley. I think startup communities being simple cheerleaders doesn’t help anyone. I’m a very big fan of Chicago. But no community can become complacent with the wins that it has.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Well, it’s nice to say we have a kicker in Chicago now, isn’t it? But Dan being from Chicago, I knew I had to throw that in there. But hey, we wanted to attract the search engine. From video to community events, a lot of other things are pushing out the definition of what we know to be content.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Their exchange will " use the tools of financial engineering to cultivate financial security in underserved markets, where there exists unique idiosyncratic risk. If you're wondering about how I wound up in a Chicago based company, leave it to a couple of MIT guys to figure out a loophole in the NYC-only focus of my fund.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Prior to joining Ocean Tomo, Mr. Geleerd was President and CEO of Terrapin Properties, LLC, one of Chicago’s leading real estate firms as well as one of Chicago’s largest and most active private companies. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

By redistributing these products to colleges and universities, EAL generated financial aid for 1,132 students seeking degrees from welding to healthcare, from engineering to robotics–the very subjects that will fuel economic development. In 2021, EAL helped corporate partners keep 5,056 mt of products out of landfills.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Scott Kubly is the Seattle Department of Transportation director and previously served as deputy director of the Chicago Department of Transportation. Denise Roth is a senior advisor at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services organization. Roth previously served as the administrator of the U.S.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It was an ad supported virtual community. I had MIT, Harvard, Chicago, and other top-tier schools interested in buying it and Wharton actually using the solution (and they kept it for four years). I built the eCommerce engine myself and self-funded the business. I never raised money because I didn’t need to.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Terry has always been a great connector so without knowing anything about Lucy I said “sure” and we had a meeting in my old office in Superior above a liquor store and Old Chicago Pizza. Her goal was straightforward – get more girls and women involved in computer science.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. Register today to take advantage of our Spring sale prices. Prices increase on June 30th.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Seshu Madabushi, from Irving, Texas, pitched Desi Sauda , a Groupon-like service catering to the South Asian communities in the U.S. He is also planning to launch in Boston and Chicago by December. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

There were great careers on that path, but part of becoming an entrepreneur and controlling my own geographic destiny not only was easiness on my family but the ability to accumulate a lifetime of service to my alma mater and other community affiliations. It’s not always easy to “break in” to a new community.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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