Momentum Sponsorship
The financial information provided within is available as a downloadable PDF. You can view our IRS Form 990 here. Please also take a look at our 2016 Annual Report for more information on 1871’s activities and impact last year.
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We had the rare opportunity last week to sit down at 1871 with Joe Mansueto, the founder, and CEO of Morningstar, for a fireside chat. Having known Joe for more than 30 years now, and given the astonishing growth and success of his various business ventures, I’m always amazed at how modest and accessible he remains and what a great booster of Chicago and its entrepreneurs he has always been.
[Read more…] about A Moment With Morningstar’s Guiding Star, Joe Mansueto
HMG Strategy, LLC hosted The 2016 Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Chicago on Thursday, May 12, 2016. CEO, Hunter Muller interviewed Howard Tullman on his leadership at 1871 during a time of enormous change. Tullman discussed how 1871 is working to attract big companies to connect with startups and plans for tech incubators in new fields, including retail.
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I’ve written recently about how unfortunate it is when businesses don’t know what they don’t know. Whatever their particular organizational biases (age or gender) or structural barriers (hierarchy or bureaucracy) may be that interfere with open and effective company-wide communication, the bottom line is that they’re flying at least partly blind and it’s actually an easy fix. (See This Common Communication Mistake is Destroying Your Productivity.)
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Reva Minkoff, Founder of DigitalGroundUp, shares her experience being a member of 1871 and WiSTEM.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his firm, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, I hosted a fireside chat with J.B. Pritzker at 1871. It was J.B. who led the group that founded 1871 in 2012. The event drew an enthusiastic crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, and several hundred others interested in hearing the gospel straight from one of venture capital’s leading apostles.
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One of the ways we have recently committed to growing entrepreneurship throughout the city while fostering diversity is through our purchasing power — specifically through the money we spend on food at 1871.
[Read more…] about Local Food Vendors We Work With: Babycakes Gourmet