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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 ...
Best Entrepreneurs 2014: David Kalt
Chicago Music Exchange already was a magnet for guitar collectors, wannabe rock stars and actual rock stars when David Kalt bought the ...
Small business owners learn recession lessons
Let someone else take the risk. That's the lesson Frank Muscarello learned from the recession, and the ...
Chicago VCs: The Money, Challenges and Opportunities
“With the larger deals, I think some investors are finding it more difficult to put money to work,” said David Karrow, a partner at Third...
Online Sales for U.S. Commercial Lines ‘5 Years Behind U.K.’
A custom-built UI, which insureon terms the “configurator,” presents questions customized to each prospect. For instance, selecting ...
What Entrepreneurs Can Take Away From the Tour de France
Cycling is similar to many other professional sports. Beyond dealing with grueling physical challenges, cyclists rely on a strategy, and ...
The Fact that High Schools Don’t Teach This Is Appalling
And the truth is, Gonder deserves the hero tag as much as anyone in the under-30 age pocket.