Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. They add mentors and additional services and some offer free space in exchange for equity. Schonthal found that others in Chicago saw the vision. It Takes a Village.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.” Tell us your story. Why did you start your business? Make sure to link to our Republic.co/Ellison

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Crowdfunding is a new way of funding startups and small businesses, and Chicago, Illinois-based Small Business Advocacy Council (SBAC) is getting into the act by starting its own crowdfunding platform SBAC Connects. Funding sources include crowdfunding, or from traditional sources such as banks, debt and equity. ” .

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

More than half of LGBTQ Americans surveyed in 2020 said they hid a personal relationship to avoid discrimination, according to a report by the Center for American Progress and NORC at the University of Chicago. In addition to the people represented by the LGBTQ community, racial inequality has also proven to be a destructive force.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

Contestants basically upload a two-minute elevator pitch video to YouTube – they’ll get feedback from VenCorps ‘ panel of judges , as well as members of the startup community. Monthly winners walk away with the cash without any catch – no equity is expected.

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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]. Experienced entrepreneurs preserve equity – [link]. The Butcher & Larder whole animal butcher shop in Chicago - [link]. Mocked And Misunderstood – [link].

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and With hindsight, my unsolicited advice to other founders in this position is to crowdfund (equity or traditional).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It was there that I met Eric Simone (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice) as well as Josh Baer (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice through his team building our first solution and getting paid primarily in equity versus cash). It was an ad supported virtual community. Below is a post I wrote on their Yahoo!

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Sadly, many people in our society come from communities where they were never, or rarely, touched by their parents, family members, or friends or only experience touch through sex. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. There’s a better way.

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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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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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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? How much equity should I give up? How much equity should I grant to early employees? How much equity should I grant to early employees? No loss of equity, at least until they convert at Series A.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The 1928 Master Plan was highlighted as both a moment and an institution of influence on Austin, essentially codifying the kind of anti-equity, anti-inclusion thinking many black and brown people in this city exhibit as critical evidence in the case against the liberal and progressive Austin that University of Texas at Austin Ph.D.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the Central and Southern regions of the United States, the city is the crowned jewel of startup communities. In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. Austin has built a name for itself within the startup scene, ranking among the top cities in the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2018

However, there is a debate in the scientific and medical community about the benefits of frequent endurance running. If you’re a woman, there’s no better place to start a new business than in Chicago – [link]. And women are significantly underrepresented in that equity ownership.” – [link].

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But what that means in reality is I love helping awesome entrepreneurs find solutions to tough problems, create jobs that support families, and build their communities. Within the last year I have also launched Crowdvest, an equity crowdfunding platform and Crowdvest Securities, which has filed to be a broker-dealer with FINRA and the SEC.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2012

Goode moved to Chicago after the Civil War and opened a furniture store with her husband Archibald, a carpenter. That led to her invention, a desk that turned into a bed, an ideal innovation for the small-space, tenement living that was a reality for many working-class Chicago residents at the time. Born a slave, Sarah E.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In that same time we’ve hosted 4 meetups in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and Portland. Terms We’ve worked with the team at Cooley to create an investment instrument that has elements of both debt and equity. terms that were most important to us and to founders: cash distributions and contingent equity conversion.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

equity, debt, some combination) or how you intend to raise it (e.g., angel/professional investors, private equity, crowdfunding) the process will always take more time and resources than you can ever imagine. But in this case, their prospective customer is the investor community, and these documents have to be focused on them.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. billionfor the same lesson, partly because they could then tell themselvesthat they were buying a phenomenon, or a community, or some vaguething like that. Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. Afterthat theres not much.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

For $100,000 we actually don’t take any equity in your company unless you raise more venture capital, at which point we’ll convert into that round of funding or if you sell the company, we’ll have a small piece of that acquisition. The nine teams we have people in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and Atlanta.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

"Uber’s ascent to the largest rideshare company in the world was fueled by a recurring cycle in which it blatantly ignored state and local laws, became entrenched and widely used in a community, and then tried to use its largesse to change the laws it was breaking." Who benefitted equity-wise from Uber's success?

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