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Karis Hustad

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Past articles by Karis:

How to choose between actively and passively managed funds

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

Like An Outfit? Take a Photo and Buy It Through Fashion Tech App Markable

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

UIUC Startups Showcase Robotic Therapy Animals, Predictive Analytics, More at Demo Day

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

Go Inside the Center for Lost Arts, Coworking for the 'Accidental Entrepreneur'

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

Elu Creates Custom Clothes for Plus-Sized Women, Personalized by an Algorithm

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

Meet Josh George, Product Manager, Paralympian Wheelchair Racer

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

Trashy Aims to Make a Treasure out of Your Brown Paper Grocery Bags

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

ISU Partners With Bloomington-Normal Angels to Connect Students to Investors

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

Giving Back Is a Part of These Chicago Startups' Company Culture

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

You Can Talk Issues With Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Through This Chatbot

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

No More Silicon Prairie: Does Chicago Tech Need a Nickname Change?

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

This DeVry Student Talked Cybersecurity Competitions at the White House

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

Chicago Inno Approved: The Startup Events You Need to Know This Week

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

How 4 Chicago Venture Capital Firms Tap Into University Talent

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

The Chicago Inno Show Episode 19: The Chicago School of Technology

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

PokeDates on Pokemon Go Dating App Success: 'It Blew Up'

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

Some Chicagoans Saw a Community-Generated Facebook Safety Check Thursday

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

Illinois Tech Researchers Demo Drones That Fly Themselves

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

When You Take a Photo of Your Food, GiftAMeal Gives a Meal to Someone in Need

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

How Corey Mays Went from NFL Linebacker to Chicago Angel Investor

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