By Erik Severinghaus, founder & CEO of SimpleRelevance
1871 Invades Park City
Last Monday, the CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, paid 1871 a visit when he was in town for a speaking engagement at the Economic Club of Chicago. Dick is a great Chicago entrepreneur having started a number of companies – including Feedburner which was acquired by Google – along with folks like Eric Lunt, who is now CTO of local growth company, BrightTag.
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We’ve been working hard to pull together an incredible lineup of industry-leading speakers for the upcoming CEC’s 2012 Startup Forecast who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends . We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. Thanks to our sponsor J.P. Morgan Chase, the event is being hosted at the Chase Auditorium.
Reprinted press release from 1871 startup CityScan
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Press Release from Risk I/O, November 13, 2012
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Reprinted MarkITx Press Release from November 06, 2012
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On May 2nd, 2012, we celebrated the official Grand Opening of the new home for Chicago’s digital startups, 1871. Now, in honor of our 6-month birthday and in the interest of sharing more about the member startups of 1871, we’re releasing this awesome Infographic that the folks at Lab42 helped us create.
Last weekend, Chicago-area tech pros came together with CareerBuilder and 1871 to hack out solutions to the more than 12 million people unemployed. Given there are more 3.5 million unfilled jobs, despite unemployment, attendees were prompted to identify and start to develop solutions to match the right talent with the right company and to help empower employment.
Chicago’s entrepreneurial community had a great night last Wednesday evening at the 5th Annual CEC Momentum Awards dinner in Millennium Park . Over 750 Chicago leaders came together to celebrate our past, present, and future entrepreneurs and the people and corporations who support them.
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Chicago’s Business Community Celebrates at 5th Annual Momentum Awards; CEC Raises $1.5 million to Support 2013 Initiatives
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Matthew Helbig is a team member at Azadi, one of Impact Engine companies and 1871 member. Here is his take on 1871 and IE so far.
A few days before we officially opened 1871 in the Merchandise Mart on May 2nd, 2012, Scott Kluth, the Fouder and President of local entrepreneurial success story, CouponCabin, gave us an incredible gift to mark the occasion. I’d like to mark this historic day for Chicago with the writing from this lithograph – which you can see next time you visit 1871.
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I think we can all agree 2012 has been a momentous year for the local startup scene.
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Last Friday, September 14th Governor Quinn visited 1871 to announce an innovative $10.3 million public-private education initiative called Illinois Pathways, to better prepare our state’s students for today and tomorrow’s jobs.
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By Hugh Musick, Associate Dean & Director of Education, IIT Institute of Design
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