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February 20th, 2012

New Reasons to Live in the Windy City

We were so excited to see venture capitalist Brad Feld post about the Chicago start up scene in Startup-Communities.com. There’s a ton going on here, and it’s great to see it be recognized:

Troy Henikoff, one of the founders of Excelerate Labs and one of the leaders of Chicago’s startup community, sent me an update on what’s going on in Chicago. It’s pretty awesome and is a great example of what happens when entrepreneurs take a long term view to building their startup community. Here are a few of the things going on that Troy mentioned….

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