Armed with time at three tech companies, Jonathan Dyke is two full years into his latest startup: Spring. Using the two-sided marketplace model to bridge the gap between digital marketing and in-store commerce,
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After a 7-month internship with CV, a wedding, and a trip to Bali, recent Chicago Booth grad Peter Christman officially joined the team in August. He’s a former startup guy who’s ready to get his hands into the venture world: specifically focusing on enterprise mobile applications and tools democratizing creative output and next-generation programming.
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Signal CTO and Chicago Ventures Advisor Eric Lunt has seen his fair share of the Chicago startup world. In 2014, the ITA named him “Technologist of the Year”, a title granted to an “individual whose talent has championed true technology innovation,
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As an attorney and startup and sports enthusiast, Overdog CEO Steve Berneman never thought he’d end up as a professional matchmaker. Initially built as a tool to match gamers with professional athletes,
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The founding story of Opternative is a serendipitous one. CEO Aaron Dallek, serial entrepreneur with a handful of tech startups already under his belt (his first was when he was 14),
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Over nine years, Dan Olson watched his team of 20 at Performics grow to join a group of 40,000 after its acquisition by Publicis. During his time at Performics, one of the early companies focusing on PPC,
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David Casem has been starting and running his own businesses since high school. Along with a stint as a GE intern in college, David, now in his 20s, has spent nearly a decade working with startups and technology.
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Chicago-based SpotHero is one of those businesses truly born out of necessity and inefficiency — a great “there’s gotta be a better way” story. In Chicago, a city known for skyrocketing parking prices,
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Entrepreneurs make bets all the time. In Tim Handorf’s case, one of those bets involved his hair. When founding G2 Crowd, the leading source for business software ratings and reviews,
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From his time working as an engineer for Motorola and later with geothermal energy at Indie Energy, Andrew Cronk has had his hands in the engineering world for over a decade.
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