Why Your Company Needs a Mantra
Does your company have a mantra? If not, stop what you are doing and develop one. Like, right now. It’s that important. What the heck is a mantra? Good question. It’s the core purpose for why your business exists. If…
Power2Pivot – The story behind Power2Switch
“A pivot is a change in strategy, without a change in vision” - Eric Ries, author or “The Lean Start Up” What was the initial insight behind the Power2switch idea? The insight behind Power2Switch was that consumers lacked a mechanism…
Supporting Random Acts of Kindness
Our entrepreneurs give amazing speeches every year at our Demo Day. But one of the most incredible is still GiveForward’s from 2010. They were introduced by a young woman who explained: “GiveForward saved my life.” As GiveForward grows, they are…
Feeling like a proud father
This week GiveForward won the gold in the Edison Awards for social impact. For those of you not already familiar with the Edison Awards, here is how they are described: “The Edison Awards have been recognized as America’s innovation awards…
TechStars Chicago’s class of 2013
Entering the fourth year of the program, and the first as TechStars, we are excited to announce this year’s class. Selection was difficult as we had to narrow the 904 applications down to 10 companies to admit. We conducted over…