As online lender Enova International goes public Thursday, interim Chief Technology Officer Joe DeCosmo celebrates the moment while focusing on the months ahead.
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I recently read two posts by Srinivas Rao about making the most of a small audience. They inspired me. He says that in the beginning, when your audience is small, you have an opportunity to build super high-quality connections. You may only have a few dozen readers, but this can...
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As the first Latina president and CEO of the Executives’ Club of Chicago, Brazilian-born Ana Dutra aims to bring innovation and diversity to the professional networking organization. The former board member moved into the post two months ago from her consulting firm, Mandala Global...
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Dhruv Saxena, co-founder of ShipBob, on how his company incorporates feedback with its customers.
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A new app from a Chicago company will let people buy and sell unused gift cards for less than their cash value — and allow buyers to transfer the value to a mobile device.
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Brenda Wolf, president and CEO of La Rabida Children's Hospital, explains how a rotating device has added a human touch to doctor-patient interactions and how technology can be used in ways that resonate with young patients.
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A popular Toronto-based monthly meetup for wearables entrepreneurs expanded to Chicago this week, with one of the Windy City's best-known new devices a featured attraction.
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Curiosity.com, a Chicago-based Pandora-like consumer marketplace for knowledge seekers, announced Tuesday it has spun off from Discovery Communications and that it has closed a $6 million Series A round. Both events took place Friday.
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A picture frame that grew out of a Chicago Ideas Week event launched Tuesday on Kickstarter, part of a local design group’s efforts to boost manufacturing here.
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Last February, Benjamin's Desk, an event space in Philadelphia, hosted a presentation for a tax attorney. Her signature color is shocking pink — and, for the duration of her event, so were the lighting accents in Benjamin's Desk's new superconnected “smart space.” Co-founder...
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Your first negative online review will feel horrible. And if you have been in a public-facing business for any length of time, it is bound to happen.
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When actress Jessica Alba first conceived her idea to launch a line of nontoxic household and baby products in 2008, skeptics tried to push her toward the same tried and true starlet formula: Why not just be the face of a new perfume? A few years later, she has a pretty good answer. The...
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