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101 Sales, Marketing, and Agency Management Ideas
Thank Customers. Find a way to thank your customers, for things like leaving a positive review, treating a sales rep well, making a large...
4 Skills Decathletes Can Teach Marketers
Modern Olympic athletes are incredible specimens. They work tirelessly to perfect their craft, building up their mind and body for a ...
Pricing Your Startup to Perfection Will Hurt You
I’ve always believed in the old adage “Perfect is the enemy of the good.” Most successful startup founders believe this to their core. ...
Supercharging Apache Spark with Flash and NoSQL
Apache Spark has become the defacto standard computational engine in the big data world. But as an in-memory technology, Spark has ...
Better with Age: Chicago’s Top Ten Startup Founders Over 40
The startup world is filled with stereotypes. Whether it’s the casual dress or the unique office perks, every founder knows that people ...
CBOE Is Converting Trading Floors into Tech Work Spaces
Chicago Board Options Exchange is finally letting go of a bit of its trading floor past. The exchange operator for the first time this ...
The Gig Economy Is All About Hustling
While conducting ethnographic research in early 2013 for a digital DIY client, my team came across some interesting findings while ...
Thomson Reuters Adds Futures and Options Trading
Thomson Reuters has added energy and commodity derivatives trading to its Eikon market data and analytics platform via a deal with ...
Insureon, Beefing Up Its Tech, Aims To Disrupt Small Biz Insurance From The Inside Out
Insureon CEO Ted Devine wants to use technology to stand the small business insurance market on its ear. But don’t try to sell him any ...
The Chicago Tech 50
The internet of things, Big Data, machine learning, the cloud and artificial intelligence: These are the areas attracting money and ...
PR PROfile: Josh Inglis, Propllr
I was lucky enough to run PR for online broker optionsXpress for about eight years. Got to partner with them pretty much from day one ...
How These Companies Achieved Parity Without Diversity Initiatives
Some of the world’s largest banks and insurance providers just signed a pledge aimed at getting more women into leadership at their ...
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
Virtual reality and augmented reality have already changed how brands and retailers do store planning, but as the technology becomes ...
Jellyvision Offices Celebrate Mustaches and a ‘Friggin’ Awesome’ Band
Jellyvision has spread into two buildings on the Near North Side over the last 20 years. The result is lived-in space with a whole lot ...
Satya Nadella Just Showed Why He’s a Better CEO than Elon Musk
In the past month, two major tech companies announced surprising deals. The first - Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. ...