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. Marry technology skills with marketing or finance or operating skills for an effective blending of complementary skillsets.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2014

Thomas Moran is the CEO of Chicago-based staffing firm Addison Group. Specialized practices deliver the right candidate at the right time in Administration, Engineering, Finance & Accounting, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Information Technology.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. ” The Cost of Financing. In a Series A financing, companies must pay the investors’ lawyers as well as their own.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2019

For example, consider the blog of this Chicago escape room. Keep a strict watch on your finances. While a digital nomad is a person who does not have a physical workplace; they work at their computer and transmit their work over the internet. What would they need? Spend only what you need to.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Thomas Moran is the CEO of Chicago-based staffing firm Addison Group. Specialized practices deliver the right candidate at the right time in Administration, Engineering, Finance & Accounting, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Information Technology.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The Happenstance app shares geolocated and little-known mini-podcasts about Chicago! It’s also important to know that Chicago is just our starting point!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, United Way of Metro Chicago set up a four-month program called the Board Leadership Institute to help business leaders interested in serving on nonprofit boards. Also, the program equips them with the best tools to be of service in the greater Chicago area. Impact of Chicago’s housing crisis.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Next Chris Ruder from Chicago, Illinois, pitched Spikeball , a new volleyball-esque game that is being played at camps and college campuses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I got my firm to pay for 50% of my MBA and I did the international program at the University of Chicago. I spent 8 weeks there per year as well as time in Chicago. My first corporate job was at First Interstate Bank where I worked in Corporate Finance. I did all of this while I had an income. I’m sure they meant it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

So went back to school, got my M B A from N Y U and had a very brief stint in finance. Felt like I had to try out finance just because I had my M B A from N Y U, and that's what people from Y U did. 70% of majors went into were finance majors, and I tried it, tried it out. At the time, there were about 10,000 other companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Most VCs are book smart. Smart is simply not a differentiator. In fact, book smart can be a negative.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I don''t know the startup networks in Chicago or Boulder, so it''s that much tougher to filter the top of the funnel for out of towners. There are roughly 400 venture deals being done in NYC each year these days, and maybe about 30% or so of those are seed financings. That''s a bad batting average and a lot of wasted time.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 16, 2020

OJO Labs has acquired Digs, a Chicago-based personal finance app that lets people save for a down payment on a home, manage the equity in their home, and monitor their credit score. It’s OJO’s fourth acquisition since launching in 2015. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. With the acquisition of Digs, OJO […].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

We are in the midst of two great disruptions to American business: the internet’s ongoing disruption of most traditional industries: finance, healthcare, retail, finance, fashion, etc. the shift of America to a majority minority country by 2050. Entrepreneurs can apply through Marathon’s website at www.marathonfdn.org.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. The post Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s municipal bond market.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

identify financing vehicles before you need them. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. In Chicago, despite having a lot of talent, companies and great research, we are a big, spread-out city. It Takes a Village.

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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…. Case in point; as the economy contracted in early spring and business declined, several of our companies in the uniform rental business had to dramatically retune their finances.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. But that may be all that’s needed to grab a financing from investors that moved very quickly. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

The concept was novel and no one yet had brought this concept to Chicago. We designed the menus, found a location in Chicago’s Wicker Park that worked for us, and we secured funding from a bank. Nasutsa concentrates on human resources, office administration, marketing, finance, customer service and networking.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

Max Salk graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in finance and a minor in history in 2011. He worked at Morningstar and then PPM, which helped him gain valuable experience and furthered his interest in finance. He is now a vice president and U.S. credit research analyst at Blackstone.

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Chicago Entrepreneurism: Four Ingredients To Help Your Business – And This City – Dominate – [link]. Crowd funding offers entrepreneurs a shot at financing their dream – [link]. – [link]. How to hire a programmer when you’re not a programmer – [link]. 1 – [link].

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. This is typically in conjunction with an upcoming financing or pending takeover offer. Freshman are a piece of paper to beta site (bootstrap financed—raise $50K to $500K).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

But as researchers at the University of Chicago discovered , this can be a good thing for creativity’s sake. Both coffee and beer (in moderation) have shown to be helpful when you’re working on certain types of tasks, however, you shouldn’t drink either when you need to do detail-oriented or analytical projects like your finances.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3 As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2020

So are the actions that back these messages up, such as offering 0% financing, delivery and generous return policies. A lover storytelling and walking, Anne lives in Chicago. Some actions and messages are more effective at making people feel good than others. She received her MS, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The University of Chicago offered the first formal two-year graduate program. Healthcare financing has become more complex, with the private pay system of years past giving way to the complicated health insurance-based system we see today. In 1929, a seminal book was published entitled Hospital Administration, A Career.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

To assist other small businesses in the process, Ferrari suggests these ten helpful tips: Take a look at expenses weekly to get a grip on your finances. Adam is a native of Chicago, IL, and was formally educated as a chemical engineer, although his professional career has been that of a petroleum engineer. About Adam Ferrari.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers. My experience describing innovation.

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