In this day and age, we rely heavily on technology to get a new business up and running. However, if not done right, utilizing digital tools increases your potential to be targeted by hackers and cybercriminals. In this guest blog post, Katie Perkins of 8×8, a provider of cloud communications and customer engagement solutions, shares a number of tips for startups who want to enhance their security measures.
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We’re excited to join Charles Schwab, one of the nation’s most prestigious brokerage firms, to celebrate women in the workforce with this year’s International Women’s Day event. Featuring this year’s theme of ‘Balance for Better,’ we’ll celebrate the day with a maker’s fair, free workshops, a panel discussion, a feature presentation, and a fireside chat.
JOBS! Every week, we highlight a number of open jobs for our member companies. If you’re looking for an exciting career in the tech industry or an opportunity to work alongside Chicago’s best and brightest, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are the job openings for the week of February 20, 2019.
“Where do I even start? How do I research charities? Who’s actually doing great work? Once I do give, where’s the money really going? If I’m not rich, can I even make an impact?” These are a just a few of the questions that pop when young professionals think about giving. To answer these, Joel Pollick, Founder and CEO of Percent Pledge, has made it his mission to empower every young professional to become a philanthropist and easily make giving a habit. In this post, Pollick discusses the importance of simplicity, transparency, and even fear.
Most entrepreneurs begin with the idea that their startup is bound to create ripples in the market. They may have a strong investor and an empowered team. They are focused on the big picture. They have all the ingredients that could lead to a successful startup. Despite being well prepared, there are only a few businesses that manage to see another year of existence. Some businesses fail while some don’t. In this article, Taylor Ryan, CMO at Valuer.ai, takes a look at why execution — and not ideas — can make all the difference.
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JOBS! Every week, we highlight a number of open jobs for our member companies. If you’re looking for an exciting career in the tech industry or an opportunity to work alongside Chicago’s best and brightest, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are the job openings for the week of February 12, 2019.
If you are building a youth-centric company, engaging the youth into the work process is an all-around solid move. Montana Butsch, Founder and CEO of Spotivity has put together a guest post on how companies can build a better product by strategically engaging the very audience they look to serve.
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JOBS! Every week, we highlight a number of open jobs for our member companies. If you’re looking for an exciting career in the tech industry or an opportunity to work alongside Chicago’s best and brightest, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are the job openings for the week of February 5, 2019.
The current taxi and rideshare market is competitive to say the least. That’s why brothers Joe and Jeff Talamantez built Cab Dash, an app that helps rideshare and taxi drivers locate their next fare quicker. In this post, they’ll talk about why cab and rideshare drivers always feel the need for speed, conviction, and the importance of good mentorship.
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Most families don’t see themselves as caregivers. They’re just a son or daughter doing their duty as a child or grandchild. The caregiving journey is often just as life-changing as having a new baby, but they don’t get 9 months to prepare. It happens in an instant: with a fall, a hospitalization, or a new diagnosis. This leaves families scrambling and stressed, often for years. Fortunately, Carl Hirschman, Founder and CEO of CareTree, a caregiving software, is bringing peace of mind to families and the caregiving industry into the 21st century.
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JOBS! Every week, we highlight a number of open jobs for our member companies. If you’re looking for an exciting career in the tech industry or an opportunity to work alongside Chicago’s best and brightest, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are the job openings for the week of January 29, 2019.
JOBS! Every week, we highlight a number of open jobs for our member companies. If you’re looking for an exciting career in the tech industry or an opportunity to work alongside Chicago’s best and brightest, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are the job openings for the week of January 22, 2019.
We’re excited to host The Chicago Tech Debates event on Machine Learning on January 24th. To preview the event, we’ve put together a Q&A with Dan Kirsche, Head of Software Engineering at Enova International, and Robert Mowery, Google Cloud SA-AGBG — both experts will be participating at the Chicago Tech Debates event to discuss the pros and cons of machine learning.
Relish Works, in partnership with Gordon Food Service and 1871, commences their second cohort of The Food Foundry with seven finalists who will begin an accelerator program unique to the foodservice industry.
When you’re ready to hire your first non-founder employees, the stakes are high: your early employees will play a critical role in getting your startup to its next phase of growth and will help define the culture you hope to create. In this guest post, Bob Cerone, CEO of CognosHR, takes a look at what makes a good hire for startups. [Read more…] about What Makes a Good Hire for Startups?
JOBS! Every week, we highlight a number of open jobs for our member companies. If you’re looking for an exciting career in the tech industry or an opportunity to work alongside Chicago’s best and brightest, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are the job openings for the week of January 15, 2019.
As any entrepreneur can tell you, good teams equal good business. And though most founders have good intentions, it’s not easy to build and organize the right team, set the right processes, and develop the right leaders. It’s an issue that Krys Burnette, Co-owner and Org Design Lead at August — which helps organizations optimize for uncertainty by emphasizing agility and experimentation — has dedicated her career to solving. In this post, Burnette talks about the value of innovation, creative freedom, and self-honesty.
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As a startup founder and entrepreneur, intellectual property (IP) isn’t always your top priority. However, intellectual property is just as important to your organization as any other business consideration and shouldn’t be ignored. In this guest post series, Nicole Poulos, an attorney at K&L Gates LLP, describes what entrepreneurs need to know about developing intellectual property strategies for business. Poulos is an attorney whose practice focuses on intellectual property, cloud computing, data center and infrastructure, licensing and technology transactions, privacy and data security, trademark, and copyright matters.
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