ZACH KAPLAN IS A VERY DOWN TO EARTH, soft-spoken kind of guy. The kind of person it’s hard not to immediately feel a sense of trust around. Maybe that is the secret to how he has found success in multiple businesses, starting with his very…
JEFF LEITNER DOESN’T HAVE AN EXIT STRATEGY. He doesn’t believe in them. “In business schools and in business plans, they ask for exit strategies,” Leitner says. “I find that absurd. What I’ve learned at every…
AS THE SON OF RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS, Dan Ushman would struggle for years to find something he could focus his mind on and hopefully deter his wild tendencies. Looking back now, he started out like so many tech entrepreneurs: obsessed with…
RAISED IN A FAMILY OF SCIENTISTS, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone but Fred that he would end up working on a biotech company. He was completely burned out on science after growing up with two parents whose nightly dinner table chat was more…
By Guest Author Stella Fayman.
Funding. Startups that get it leave others wondering… “How did they do it?” No wonder: the stats are against most entrepreneurs. Only about 1 in 40 will get angel funding, and about 1 in…
“CARMEN!” by Griffin Caprio. Growing up, that’s a sound I frequently. My father, Carmen, had a knack for uniting the people at places he frequented. He could work a room, as they say, without ever leaving his…
Wendy Piersall is a creative serial entrepreneur who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. As a child, she struggled in school, which showed in her grades. Then, when she went to college, all that changed. She went from being a…
Our St Patrick’s Special Story. SSSzzzzzzzzzzzzz……. That’s the sound of the kitchen at The Gage and Hot Doug’s and Bangers & Lace and any of the…
Ambar Frausto, founder of Posy, an event planning web-based solution, is someone who knows what she wants out of life and goes after it with gusto. Growing up in the suburbs outside Chicago, she dreamed of the day she could move to the…
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN ROA sat in his parent’s living room dumbfounded. He had just been pushed out of the company he had helped build piece by piece over the course of two years.