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Views on the Ground: Scenes from Our Chicago Founder Fly-In

Revolution

Phil Clement, President and CEO of World Business Chicago , joined us to share why the Second City is a first-rate place to build, and to remind us of its grit and global reach. Before lunch, we mixed founders with Chicago’s civic, academic, and financial leaders — including former Google exec, Ted Souder , J.P.

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Supergut Secures New Funding and Expands Leadership to Drive Growth in Gut Health

American Entrepreneurship

The company plans to use the funding to expand retail distribution, accelerate product development, and strengthen its team as it scales to meet growing consumer demand. She is also the Operating Partner at Full Frame Growth Partners that led the recent funding round and was previously the Founder and Managing Partner of Creekside Ventures.

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Market Research Questions: Best Practices, Effective Examples

StartupNation

Ideally, it will help you understand your audience and identify opportunities and challenges. But to get the best market research, you need to be sure you’re collecting the right data for your business. And the key to unlocking that right data is asking the right questions. Let’s dive in! No more guessing games or compromised data.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. What areas are going to change? Reader beware.).

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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21 Ways to Grow Your New Business Online in 2021

StartupNation

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everything from working to socializing to ordering and shopping online has become the norm. In fact, according to emarketer.com ; “U.S. e-commerce sales will reach $794.50 billion (in 2020), up 32.4% year-over-year. That’s a much higher growth rate than the 18.0% That’s a much higher growth rate than the 18.0%

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Consumers are forced to rely mostly on peer reviews and incur the additional friction of having to deal with the unit owner, who may double-book or rent out units illegally against city regulations, among a host of other issues, resulting in a largely unreliable user experience. It is about building and recreating communities.