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Re: Ask HN: Chicago-Area Startups

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Post by esausti »

timjahn wrote: post #10
esausti wrote: post #5

http://giveforward.com We're in the Loop now but moving to Wicker Park next month. We launched in 2008. Raised a round in 2011. Things are bueno.

Woot! Love Wicker Park. And GiveForward. :)

thanks Tim! We're going to be in the same building as Putchfork. Should be fun. You're going to have to check out the new digs.

Re: Ask HN: Chicago-Area Startups

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Post by kadavy »

Kadavy, Inc., it's just me, and started as a UI consultancy in 2008. Now it's a media company.

I'm writing a book on design http://designforhackers.com

Based on blog posts at http://kadavy.net

I live in Lincoln Park at Clark & Fullerton, which I think is a perfect place for a one man startup. Very walkable.

I meet with other entrepreneurs every wednesday to cowork at a cafe http://jellychicago.com

I moved here from SF, entirely by my own volition. Yes, for real.

Re: Ask HN: Chicago-Area Startups

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Post by tptacek »

revorad wrote: post #42
tptacek wrote: post #7

Matasano. 2005. South loop.

Do you still consider yourselves a startup?

I refuse to dignify the distinction between startups and small businesses. In my head, we're all of us "indies", from the YC'W11 companies to Fog Creek.

People, including 'pg, like to point out that "startups" scale and small businesses are structured to take steady income. But those lifestyle "small businesses" can flip a switch at any time and plow investments into any product idea to shoot for the hockey stick curve. They can even do it more than once.

To answer your question more objectively: we are ~4 years older and substantially larger than most of the companies discussed on HN as "startups". But our product team is roughly the same size as (I think) most of the YC'W11's.

Re: Ask HN: Chicago-Area Startups

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Post by revorad »

tptacek wrote: post #47
revorad wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you still consider yourselves a startup?

I refuse to dignify the distinction between startups and small businesses. In my head, we're all of us "indies", from the YC'W11 companies to Fog Creek. People, including 'pg, like to point out that "startups" scale and small businesses are structured to take steady income. But those lifestyle "small businesses" can flip a switch at any time and plow investments into any product idea to shoot for the hockey stick cur…

Maybe I came across the wrong way. I just meant to say I thought you were a real business with real income, not a startup which might still be looking for a business model. I have no doubt you can scale to the moon, if and when you choose to.
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