I finally accepted my true nature and discovered the secret entrepreneurial advantages introversion offers. Yes, that’s right: introversion is actually an entrepreneurial advantage.
Hearing Paul Pagel talk, it’s easy to be momentarily transplanted from the loft-style chic of 8th Light’s River North offices to a remote, mountaintop dojo…
Make sure you’ve got a valid problem and an economically-viable solution, and then to test and refine that solution with users.
A good start-up brand must stand for something and reject other things to the point that they attract the attention of a polarized market
Do social entrepreneurs even care about making revenue and turning a profit?
A full video recap of his Keynote
As always, the show kicked off with a great keynote speaker, and the following pitches didn’t skip a beat.
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“This is like you’re holding a loaded gun to my head and you’re promising that you won’t pull the trigger,” I said to one of our lead investors with regard to their financing agreement which penalized the company’s success at best and, at worst, sealed our fate. He reassured me that the investment group was…
As an organizer for the next Startup Weekend in Chicago, I’m passionate about bringing together people from a wide array of different backgrounds to support them in building great things. If you can imagine being able to take a great idea and spin it around into actionable next steps towards a viable business within 54…