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3 Things You Can Learn from the Restaurant Industry’s Labor Shortage
Hurricanes. Gas prices. Growing old. Some things are simply out of your control. But just because you can't control something doesn't ...
Here Comes the Robo Retirement Account
If you don’t participate in your employer’s 401(k) plan because signing up and working with it is too much hassle, or you do participate ...
Local Startup Wants To Be The ‘Uber’ Of Private Music Lessons
Reverb is a Lakeview based startup that wants to be the digital version of Guitar Center—just, you know, without the middle-aged men with...
Reverb Launches a New Marketplace to Connect Aspiring Musicians with Experienced Instructors
In 2013, serial entrepreneur David Kalt launched Reverb.com, a marketplace for buying and selling used and vintage music equipment ...
Reverb Turns Up the Volume with New Marketplace for Music Lessons
One Chicago company is bringing music to more than Chicago’s ears — it’s also bringing it to Chicago’s fingertips. Reverb, Chicago’s ...
4 Things This Founder Wishes He Could Go Back In Time to Tell Himself
You've heard the phrase "Hindsight is 20/20." But ideally it's an adage you don't want to apply to your business. Take some tips from ...
Serena Williams Took a Break from Her Career—and So Can You
Despite having taken some time off from tennis, Williams is now at the top of her game. Here’s what women can learn from her example ...
Can’t Get Your Startup Funded in Silicon Valley? Think Minnesota
To the tech entrepreneurs who've set up shop on the Silicon Prairie, there's no better place to be. Silicon Valley ideas get meshed with ...
Survey Finds Decreasing Satisfaction with EHRs
Survey results released by AmericanEHR Partners and AMA indicate declining satisfaction with EHRs compared to five years ago, with about ...
Some Notable Investors Are Backing This New ‘Spontaneous’ Meetup App
When you want to find out what your friends are up to—and if anyone wants to get together for lunch or drinks—how do you do it? Many ...
Let’s Do Brunch: A Chicago Entrepreneur Looks to Launch a ‘Big Time’ Messaging App
Chicago's innovation economy yields a lot of singles and doubles, pragmatic, revenue-generating companies over flashy, bubbly unicorns. ...
Renters Insurance Horror Story
Eric Narcisco had a $10,000 problem…that he realized later could have been solved by spending less than $200. He’s the CEO of Effective ...
The Best Cities for Techies to Find Jobs
In August we analyzed how students were bypassing traditional education and starting to use coding bootcamps to shift their careers, but ...
The Daily Habits of High-Achieving CEOs
I begin each morning with an hour of deep meditation. I've learned to remain calm when the world strikes a stressful blow, which happens ...
The Real Unicorns Are Female Angel Investors
Despite the attention over the past year, the lack of diversity in tech — both in race and gender — has not markedly changed. Only 3 ...