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The Pros and Cons of Online Tutoring

The days of hiring the teenager from down the street to tutor your kid are seemingly long gone. Tutoring is now a booming business, ...

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How ‘Superheroes’ Have All the Power in a Small Firm

I’ve found that once you look for your leaders, it becomes immediately apparent who they are. They’re the ones other employees want to spend

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How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Inspire My Business

I love the Google guys. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have a great grasp on how to be a great product company.

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How to Overcome a Less-Than-Stellar Resume and Still Nail the Job Interview

OK, I admit it: I watch reality TV. Specifically, Million Dollar Listing, which follows real estate brokers closing deals in New York...

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A Q&A with OptionsCity’s CTO, Victor Glava

If you view trading firms as they were presented in Flash Boys, the only thing a firm needs to be successful in trading is the fastest...

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Office Space: Chicago Music Exchange

David Kalt sees his Roscoe Village retail guitar center as more an art gallery than a store...

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Is There a Major Opportunity in Micro-Business?

Ted Devine used to be president of Aon Risk Services. But he recently became CEO of Insureon, an online insurance provider for small businesses. He recently spoke with Senior Editor Mark A. Hofmann about the insurance needs of microbusinesses...

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Chicago Entrepreneurs Find Bootstrapping a Good Fit

Andrew Geant and Michael Weishuhn met on the track team as undergraduates at Princeton University. Now, the two Chicago transplants have traded their track shoes for boots...

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Former Aon Exec Devine Goes Micro

Ted Devine has moved just across the Loop from his old digs in the Aon Center where he was a top executive at the tower's namesake company...

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Can Reverb.com Re-Tune the Online Used Guitar Market?

David Kalt has a thing about eBay. eBay’s too big. It’s too impersonal. Its sales cut is too high.

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Spinaris Capital Selects OptionsCity for FX and Options Trading

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Latency Has Been Put on the Back-Burner

The race to zero is a thing of the past says OptionsCity.

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Avoid these deadly mistakes when pitching angel investors

It's easy to get the impression that any entrepreneur who scrawls an idea on the back of an envelope can get funded these days.

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Deflating 4 Myths About the Wonders of Cloud Computing

Whether inside or outside the technology sector, entrepreneurs find themselves constantly wrestling with tech decisions that affect their...

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View IT Assets as an Investor, Not a Consumer

As consumers in a short-attention span world, the constant onslaught of new technology has led all of us to mindlessly collect countless ...

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