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C-Level Series: John Superson of Victory Networks
Sophisticated data and analytics are no longer only isolated to quotes and strategies. Instead, the rigorous demands of research and ...
TempoIQ: Taking On Solar and Smart Grid Data in Real Time
Founded in 2011 as TempoDB, the Chicago-based startup has created a cloud-based, time-series database platform now being used to track ...
Illinois Grapples with Question of Who Owns Energy Data
Andy Cronk, CEO of software firm TempoIQ, said data provision is “usually very slow and delayed with utilities – you can’t see energy use...
Turn to Tesla’s Example in Steering a Startup to Success
Earlier this year Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a visionary move. In June, Musk announced that his electric-car company will no longer enforce...
Chicago among top cities for fastest-growing companies, Inc. says
Chicago is a top city on Inc.'s annual ranking of America's fastest-growing private companies, the magazine said today.
The Inc. 5000 ...
Your Open Office in the Trendy Coworking Space Is Not Making You More Productive
In the last few years, we’ve seen a surge of coworking spaces everywhere, and according to statistics, there are 820 coworking spaces ...
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 ...