APPLY BY APRIL 14TH!! In the decade since the Founder Institute was established, it’s grown into the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator with over 3,500 companies launched across the globe, with program graduates having raised over $800 million. Co-Directors Jason Randolph and Jason Jacobsohn have played no small part, having built the Chicago branch…
My wife says I eat like a toddler. But as I gear up for fatherhood, I want to step up my culinary game. It seems as if there’s no shortage of kitchen tools on the market, from the ever-popular Instant Pot to blenders that can juice, chop and pulverize your iPhone as well as…
Cybersecurity is one of the greatest issues of our generation. With so much of our lives online, we are only as safe as our data: our Instagram accounts, Lyft profiles, and Google searches. And at the end of the day, our passwords are the only barrier between us and the cyber criminals who…
The fanfare for 3D printers has ebbed and flowed over the years, but never quite breaking into the mainstream. A lot of this has to do with no true, flexible 3D printer product. Ethan Baehrend, an 18-year-old entrepreneur and CEO of Creative 3D Technologies, points to a stagnant 3D printing market that doesn’t have…
Nick Hamburger is a good egg. At just 21, he’s whip smart ready to scale his healthy-snack startup into the next big food brand. Quevos is a snack chip made from egg whites. “It’s a combination of the words quick and huevo,” Nick says. “Spanglish for ‘quick huevos.’ Eggs on the go. They’re…
A lot of wellness apps out there seem to be missing one very important ingredient: doctors. When you’re dealing with something as critical as health, it’s not enough to create an app that offers a temporary fix, or leaves users browsing aimlessly for medical answers. There needs to be a clinical professional to…
Colum Donahue’s IT management company Genuity is built on a simple concept: the less you understand, the more you par. The market is designed that way, says Colum, Genuity’s co-founder. Telecom service providers and SaaS companies, for example, often profit from keeping customers in the dark. Labyrinthine contracts with incomprehensible pricing structures, surcharges,…
Death: it’s a universal part of life. But grieving is complicated. For the deceased’s immediate family, it often means making difficult, expensive decisions during their darkest days. For the rest of us, it’s hard to know what to do, what to say, how to help. Funeral traditions and customs vary widely between…
Most founders don’t realize that startup success takes a lot of work –– and a whole lot of crazy. You’ve got to find your path to revenue: provide what customers want, make it convenient, keep them coming back. To grow, you sell your business to investors, but you have to prove you’re making money for…
Tech startups are increasingly cloud-native. Companies of every kind are migrating their data and ops to maximize efficiency, security and agility with cloud-based services. But what about businesses that have been around for 50, or even 150, years? There are banks, insurers and government agencies whose legacy technology is older than most of…