Chicago-based technology incubator 1871 and the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (IHCC) announced Thursday the 12 businesses that make up the first cohort of a new incubator focused on fostering opportunities for Hispanic-owned technology companies. As part of the 12-week program, the tech companies will be provided educational programming, resources, technological support and guidance toward raising funding.
Alex Niemczewski was frustrated as she stared at her ballot in 2012. “There were all these offices I’d never heard of, names I’ve never heard of,” she said. “I left some blanks and I felt like I didn’t do my civic duty.” It was that experience that led to the founding of BallotReady — a comprehensive, non-partisan breakdown of your ballot — in 2014. After 3 months building the site at 1871, multiple primaries and the addition of two co-founders, the site is now ready for the 2016 election, the first presidential election for the startup which can still be found working hard out of the University of Chicago conference room.
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I’ve always loved the game “musical chairs.” You know, that game where a group of kids is circling a cluster of chairs, and everyone has to find a seat when the music abruptly stops. There is always one less chair than the number of players. The one person left standing is eliminated.
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Check out this video featuring our amazing partners at Comcast, the 2016 Corporate Champion. Comcast was honored at the 9th Annual Momentum Awards this year at the Radisson Blu Aqua.
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Check out this video for a look at Impact Engine, the winner of the 2016 Chicagoness Award, featuring CEO Jessica Droste-Yagan. Impact Engine. Impact Engine is a venture fund that invests financial and human capital in early-stage, for-profit technology businesses improving education, health, economic empowerment, and resource efficiency.
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Discover the 2016 Momemtum Awards nominees – @properties, Caremerge, Civis Analytics, Learnmetrics, Rise Interactive, SpotHero, and Uptake – and how they’re changing the landscape of Chicago tech and innovation.
Winter is on its way– something we’re more than familiar with in Chicago– but I’m not just talking about the weather. It’s becoming frostier and frostier for startups caught in the lukewarm limbo between ideas and invoices to get their early backers to up their bets, especially when it’s not clear that they’ve found a viable business model and/or a way to stop the bleeding sooner rather than later.
A look at the 2016 Entrepreneurial Champion Jai Shekhawat, Founder of Fieldglass.
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1871 announced Friday the arrival of three Finland-based startups, marking the first time partner company Sente Advisory Services has welcomed companies from the Finland to Chicago as part of Sente’s ongoing international efforts on behalf of 1871 and Chicago. The purpose of the program is to invite companies from overseas to Chicago in hopes that these companies are able to gain entry into the U.S. market through the relationships, introductions and efforts of the program.
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1871 announced Thursday the expansion of WiSTEM, its women-focused entrepreneurship program that tackles major barriers faced by women in the entrepreneurship community. The expansion — made possible by grant funding from JPMorgan Chase among other sponsors — will allow for three cohort-based programs in 2017 that focus on capital, community and technology — adding an extra cohort for the year.
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Civis Analytics and @properties were honored as the 2016 Merrick Momentum Awards winners at the 9th Annual Momentum Awards Dinner, held by the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center Thursday evening at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel. The coveted award honors businesses that are on track to become the next great companies to emerge in Chicago.
The 9th Annual Momentum Dinner at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel was an enormous success, bringing together the best and brightest in Chicago to once again to celebrate the past, present and future of the Chicago entrepreneur. Hosted for the benefit of 1871 by the CEC, the 2016 Momentum Awards welcomed more than 800 guests to celebrate “Impact and Purpose” — a theme that recognized the leaders in the community who embody the unique and unselfish spirit of the entrepreneurial community in Chicago.
There have been a lot of prescriptive articles about the critical–and often ignored or overlooked–need for succession planning in large companies, particularly at the highest management level. And I’ve seen the massive notebooks at some big businesses that detail the candidates and the replacement process for practically every member of the senior team.
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