“There were a million babies born to Millennials last year, and that number’s growing,” says Elizabeth Harz, CEO of Sittercity. (I happen to know this firsthand). “Digital natives are used to running everything from their phones and expect a data-centric, efficient, beautiful user experience to manage their whole lives. “There’s also a sense of…
“When I started, there were no black female founders in Chicago that readily came to mind, to whom I could go to for advice,” said Stella Ashaolu, founder and CEO of WeSolv. Her three-year-old Chicago-based startup is reducing hiring bias by providing opportunities for MBA students to solve real-world challenges for top companies.…
Lightbank Managing Partner Vic Pascucci joins Scott in-studio at WGN Radio to talk about how founders today are severely entitled. It’s time to stop holding their hands and start telling them the truth; there’s more to being a founder than, well, being a founder. This episode is sponsored by Salesforce, Bank of America & Jones Lang LaSalle. Now you can listen to Technori on Spotify!
Technori takes equity investment to launch Technori Co-op, a non-traditional startup incubator, focused on disrupting how startups are launched and funded. DV Partners, led by SMS Assist Founder and Chairman Mike Rothman, today announced a seven figure investment in Chicago’s largest and most active startup platform, Technori. The funds will be used to expand…
Launching a startup is hard; with or without funding, experienced or not – but, if there was one thing that might just separate the top founders from the pack, it’s understanding the value of time. Imagine this, when Instagram blew past 1,000,000 downloads they still had just a 13 person team… THIRTEEN! How…
Recently, I talked about the #1 reason why people don’t accomplish their goals: lack of genuine connection and commitment to them. But once you’ve figured out what you really want to do, you still need a strategy for accomplishing it. Your goals are not going to get you anywhere if you don’t actually do something about them. And…
Ever wonder how someone goes from a $10,000 investment to $20 million in sales?…
The typical digital startup has two founders: one is technical, the other does sales and marketing. The hacker and the hustler…
Here are the 10 emotional stages of e-mail rejection…
Here are their tips for making great financial decisions for your startup…