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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

The top startup at this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois was Balodana , a fashion purchasing platform disrupting the women’s e-commerce fashion industry. The beauty of our marketplace model is that we can transform our “competition” into partners in ways that Amazon and Etsy can’t. Fantastic points.

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Female Founder Interview – Olga Camargo Leads Latinas Fintech Advisory

The Startup Magazine

University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Business Administration Alumni Leadership Academy Inductee. Northeastern Illinois University Foundation Board. SHENIX™ offers financial education, financial services through its partners, career planning, and salary negotiation resources, all of which support Latinas/x life goals.

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Founder Interview: Dan Breier Helps Raise Funds for Charities

The Startup Magazine

Dan has a great story as Founder of BreierSide Solutions , a charity consulting company in Sleepy Hollow, Illinois. Dan : We are an affiliate marketing partner (state of Illinois primarily) for the Rhino Club Card App. I would like to see 100,000 Rhino Club Card members in Illinois. Getting visibility?

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An Overview Of Cyber Risks

YoungUpstarts

by Bart McDonough , CEO and founder of Agio, and author of “ Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals “ William and Nancy Skog had cherry-picked an impeccable, perfect, river-front residence in Wilmington, Illinois.

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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. HQ Location : Chicago, Illinois. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections.

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Workplace Flexibility Boosts Remote Teams’ Loyalty

Transformify

We found an extreme talent in Adeel Ahmad who worked between Lahore, Pakistan and Chicago, Illinois at the time. The second opportunity that presented itself was when Bertram Lyons, now Partner and Senior Consultant at AVP, reached out because he was in the position of moving from Washington D.C.

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[US] Small Business Advocacy Council Launches Crowdfunding Platform

YoungUpstarts

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.