What Is The Midwest Good At? Big Agriculture
Clusters don’t grow in a vacuum. Usually there is a reason cities exist where they do. If the city is old enough, usually there is a body of water right next to it. It was far easier to ship goods...
View ArticleMidwestern Exits Have Been Different
One of the push-backs that people give Midwestern tech advocates is the lack of big exits. It is true, we don’t have as many as NYC or Silicon Valley. One reason is that we are relatively new to the...
View ArticleWhy It’s Different For Women in Chicago
Yesterday, I had a long conversation with Ms Tech’s Nicole Yeary. If you don’t know Ms Tech, you should. They help women get started and sustain entrepreneurial startups. I think that’s awesome....
View ArticleWhat’s In A Name?
This story I read about how people named their startup is funny. So many domain names are tied up by squatters, it’s almost impossible to give a company a name that fits what they do. Thinking up a...
View ArticleQuestions From MBA Students At Northwestern
Last evening I was on a panel at 1871. Linda Darragh invited had invited me. We were talking entrepreneurship with first year MBA students from Northwestern. Also on the panel were Joe Dwyer, Steve...
View Article4 Ways to Build a Startup Community: Local Investors Need to Ignore Talks of...
This is a great interview that Brad Feld did. The whole interview is worth listening to, but I think the first few points are especially important. He has been a terrific leader in showing the path to...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Angel Mistakes; And Top Ten Best Practices
Yesterday the angel organization that I co-founded and had a big part in building had its annual meeting. David Rose was our keynote speaker. David started up the software company Gust. It’s the...
View ArticleWhy I Am Leaving The Board of Hyde Park Angels
Hyde Park Angels has been around since April of 2007. I was one of the co-founders, and I am the only co-founder that is still involved with HPA and consistently writes checks to deals that come...
View Article9 Years of Angel
In April of 2007, we started Hyde Park Angels. It actually came together sooner than that, but it took a while for the legal. We made our first investment in a company called Shuffletech. It was run by...
View ArticleEnd of The Road
I turned in my resignation to Hyde Park Angels, the organization I co-founded back in 2007. Most of my co-founders left in the first couple of years for a variety of reasons. Some never were part of...
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