Taking a data-driven approach to changing culture “One of the best things to happen for diversity in the workplace was that everybody realized that diverse and inclusive teams are more successful teams,” says Tom Alexander, whose Chicago-based startup consultancy Holistic uses data to help companies improve their workplace cultures. “And one of the best things…
Diversity Initiative Chicago Blend Aims to Shake Up the VC Community “The venture and tech community is not as diverse as Chicago is,” says Lindsay Knight of Chicago Blend, an initiative that aims to measure and increase “DEI” (diversity, equity and inclusion) in local venture capital firms as well as their portfolio companies. “We don’t…
Startup App YourBit Turns Spare Change into Charitable Donations The intersection of tech and philanthropy is a hot space right now. Over the last decade, digital fundraising has transformed the nonprofit world. The majority of donations to charities are made online, and Millennials are now thought to be the most generous generation ever, with more…
How Investment Platform YCharts Helps You Grow Your Wealth “The big opportunity we see in the market is that Millennials are do-it-yourself first,” says Sean Brown, the CEO of Chicago-based YCharts. “They love tools. They love data. But they may have overconfidence in their ability to invest.” For those of us, Millennial or not, who…
“We’ve got to find our own story, leverage our own strengths, and be Chicago about this.” “What I’ve really specialized in is working on big, enterprise, core information technology problems and solving them. And what I’ve found is that there are inherent advantages to doing that here in Chicago,” says Chris Gladwin, founder…
Chowly, Inc. CEO Sterling Douglass joins Scott in-studio at WGN Radio to talking about Scott’s second-favorite thing after startups – food! You ever see those tablets at a restaurant that servers use to input orders? They’re clunky, slow, and annoying. Chowly eliminates the tablet middle-man and connects third-party platforms to POS systems.
It’s Saturday morning, you woke up a little bit early to take in the day and you’re enjoying the comfort of your couch. But you have to leave soon in order to tour a new office space for your budding startup, and you don’t really feel like it. If only there were some platform that…
If you are amazingly productive at getting unimportant things done, you are not actually productive…
My mission: tell the story of my day using three distinct buckets.
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