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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

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. My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. Team Info: Co-Founder: Pat McLoughlin.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Then Satish Tripathi from Skokie, Illinois, discussed Biomedical Consulting International Inc. , I like these two strategies.

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Top 3 Startup Winner: Happenstance

The Startup Magazine

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. Our co-founder/CEO, Kathy Bartlett, has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, holding positions in a range of industries, from finance to restaurants.

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Female Leader Interview: Gina Diaz, Real Estate Investing and Entrepreneurship Champion

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Gina Diaz, entrepreneur and top immigration and real estate attorney, Ms. TSM: You are also the co-founder of We Win, LLC, focused on introducing women to real estate investing, and also and a transitional housing non-profit.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. For example, my firm at the time, Continental Illinois Venture Corporation, the wholly owned SBIC of Chicago’s Continental Bank, had many successful investments.

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CouponTrade.com – Trade Your Discount Coupons And Gift Cards Online

YoungUpstarts

Chicago, Illinois-based CouponTrade.com works essentially like an online swop meet for discount coupons and gift cards, so users can easily buy and sell their unused deals for cash. CouponTrade.com gives savvy deal hunters the chance to scalp the daily deals,” adds CouponTrade.com COO and co-founder Bradley Wasz. “At

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These 12 Apps Will Help Boost Your Productivity

crowdSPRING Blog

A study by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the ideal work environment had a little bit of background noise. We had been in and out of coffee shops, and we were getting really good work done,” co-founder Ace Callwood told the New York Times.

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