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As passive management draws in more and more investors, it’s easy to overlook some of the advantages active management can add to a portfolio. → Read More
After graduating Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joy Tang spent six years creating prediction models for a high frequency trading firm in Chicago. While she dealt with complex algorithms in... → Read More
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students are using tech to provide therapy to Alzheimers patients, create portable shelters that protect against Zika and manufacture wearable devices that... → Read More
Last summer Charles Adler hosted a one month pop-up creative space in an old meat freezer in Fulton Market, called Center for Lost Arts. The Kickstarter cofounder invited 50 friends to work in the... → Read More
Retailers estimate there are over 70 million women in the plus-sized clothing market, but Christina Marshall-Valdez who’s been plus-sized her whole life, constantly felt like she was being left... → Read More
A turn as a startup product manager is speeding wheelchair racer and UIUC grad Josh George toward Rio, where he'll race and star in an ad for BMW. → Read More
If you shop at Whole Foods, Jewel-Osco, Trader Joes, Marianos or any other major grocery store, chance are you have a drawer filled with brown paper grocery bags. Charles Tokowitz and Medina... → Read More
Bloomington-Normal may not have the volume of investors and entrepreneurs as Chicago, nor the flagship university academic power of neighboring Champaign-Urbana. But a new partnership between... → Read More
There are a host of ways that Chicago startups make their workplaces engaging, from in-office kegerators to Divvy memberships to music festival tickets to one-month travel sabbaticals. But some... → Read More
With the presidential election fast approaching, political commentary has reached a deafening volume. So Chicago entrepreneur Andy Angelos created a chatbot to cut through the chatter. His... → Read More
Though all emerging tech ecosystems around the country have unique strengths and weaknesses, they all have one thing in common: a nickname based off Silicon Valley. Iowa's tech scene has been... → Read More
A DeVry student in Illinois was invited to the White House last week to talk cybersecurity. John Lohrentz, a DeVry Keller Graduate School of Management student, was part of a team of three that... → Read More
Monday Product Management is "the process of working with designers and developers to successfully build and launch digital products." Sound interesting? On Monday, there's a session all about... → Read More
In Silicon Valley, where venture capitalists relentlessly seek the next big thing, firms have hired teenagers as analysts and associates. In Boston, where university students make up a bulk of... → Read More
In this episode we talk Eric Lefkofsky's new cancer-curing venture, why Chicago's startup scene should be known as the "Chicago School of Technology" and how Pokemon Go helped a startup come back... → Read More
Project Fixup, a Chicago and San Francisco-based dating startup, offers "offline dates" set up through both tech and real matchmakers. Since going through Techstars Chicago in 2013, they found... → Read More
On Thursday some Chicagoans checked their Facebook and found a Safety Check notification asking them to report they were safe after "violent crime" was reported in Chicago. Facebook's Safety Check... → Read More
Several years ago the internet buzzed with news of a Tacocopter that could deliver tacos via drone. It turned out to be a hoax, and Jeremy Hajek, an information technology professor at Illinois... → Read More
Love taking photos of your food when you go out to eat? A startup has devised a way to make that photo count for more than just Instagram likes. The social enterprise is called GiftAMeal, and the... → Read More
The average career of a professional football player in the NFL only lasts two and a half years, a recent Wall Street Journal analysis found. So what happens after that? Corey Mays, a Chicago... → Read More