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Don’t Take That Developer Job Without Asking These 5 Questions
It’s a tough job market out there for young people, with estimates that 44 percent of college grads are underemployed. If you are a young...
Summer C-Level Series: Hazem Dawani
We are seeing a couple major themes throughout the financial software business. First, trading firms are minimizing time from trading ...
9 Maxims That Can Uplift Your Business
Guitar and gear marketplace Reverb.com uses this philosophy even in seemingly mundane functions such as shipping, designing its own ...
ParkWhiz makes parking easy, snares $10 million
Looking to secure its share of the estimated $30 billion US parking industry, Chicago-based ParkWhiz hauled in a $10 million second round...
ParkWhiz raises $10M as more VC cash flows to parking spot-booking startups
Parking spot booking service ParkWhiz just raised a $10 million Series B round, led by Jump Capital with participation from Hyde Park ...
Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn’t Always Worthwhile
Ben Blair is CTO of MarkITx, a company that brokers used commercial IT gear. This gives him an excellent overview of the marketplace ...
How the Sharing Economy Gets Insurance
Just imagine a possible scenario, says Ted Devine, CEO of Insureon, an online broker specializing in small businesses, many of which ...
5 Tips to Stand Out When Selling on an Online Marketplace
The advent of online marketplaces, led by eBay nearly 20 years ago, has become a boon for small businesses. Whether they're brick-and-...
What One Entrepreneur Learned from Duke Ellington
As founder of an online marketplace for musical instruments, perhaps it’s no surprise that my cultural inspiration for starting a new ...
Inc. 500: Insureon
Insureon provides a range of insurance coverages for more than 30,000 small businesses.
These 10 Startups Are Creating the Future of Food
Typical meals given to the 1 million Americans who eat through feeding tubes consist primarily of corn syrup, water, and vitamins ...
How MarkITx helps a co-founder avoid repeating a critical mistake
Muscarello and partner Ben Blair, a computer scientist and veteran derivative trading technologist, have built Chicago’s MarkITx into an ...
TempoDB becomes TempoIQ, refocuses on sensor analytics
TempoDB, the Chicago-based time-series database startup that emerged from TechStars in 2012, has changed its name to TempoIQ and has ...
4 Success Traits for Today’s Health Plan CIO
A new white paper from payer software vendor Aldera walks through four skillsets required of health plan CIOs in the post-reform ...
Got big data? TempoIQ aims to point you to the insights in it
From his seat near the intersection of big data and the Internet of Things, TempoIQ CEO Andrew Cronk sees a landscape beyond ubiquitous ...