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Not a big fan of the list, as they left out some great companies. Some of my favorite Chicago startups: 1. TempoDB - Database for IOT and sensor data 2. 640 Labs - Precision agriculutre platform 3. Opternative - Online Eye Exams 4. ShipBob (YC S14) - Easy shipping for businesses and personal (Disclaimer: Currently work here) 5. Basecamp - Project Managment Software
Opternative is on the list.
It's super weird to me how preoccupied the tech industry is about geography. Why does it matter where a company is? Why are VC firms so focused on a tiny patch of land? Other than internet connectivity, there's no real reason why it should be harder to start an internet company in Estonia than in Palo Alto, but it self-evidently is. Is this a market failure? Has anyone figured out how to build a fully distributed com…
edit: Bryce Roberts at OATV is currently running an experiment that could challenge that default VC mindset with Indie.vc: http://indie.vc/
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None of your links are local to Chicago. Yes, diluted nationwide I'm sure its an acceptable loss, but locally things are different. Politics are local and dismissing my experience with nationwide links makes you look especially disingenuous here. This is like saying Detroit is very safe to live in if you look at nationwide crime stats. The only thing local here is the Reagan welfare queen comment from almost 40 years…
Feel free to add your own links. Or do we just have to take your word for it?
Not a big fan of the list, as they left out some great companies. Some of my favorite Chicago startups: 1. TempoDB - Database for IOT and sensor data 2. 640 Labs - Precision agriculutre platform 3. Opternative - Online Eye Exams 4. ShipBob (YC S14) - Easy shipping for businesses and personal (Disclaimer: Currently work here) 5. Basecamp - Project Managment Software
Basecamp may be cool, but it's hardly a startup--it's been around since like 2004.
Not a big fan of the list, as they left out some great companies. Some of my favorite Chicago startups: 1. TempoDB - Database for IOT and sensor data 2. 640 Labs - Precision agriculutre platform 3. Opternative - Online Eye Exams 4. ShipBob (YC S14) - Easy shipping for businesses and personal (Disclaimer: Currently work here) 5. Basecamp - Project Managment Software
Basecamp may be cool, but it's hardly a startup--it's been around since like 2004.
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There should be more focus on what Chicago's uniquely good at Do you mean whining about how we deserve to be a tech/manufacturing hub but we're not? Because we're pretty good at that.
Judging from this comment, I'd guess that you, Adrian, and Kevin probably agree on Chicago's strengths and weaknesses. (As a Chicago startup founder, I'll just add that I hope we don't become a "tech hub". A diverse business community is one of our biggest strengths.)
(speaking as a former Chicago startup founder)
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Judging from this comment, I'd guess that you, Adrian, and Kevin probably agree on Chicago's strengths and weaknesses. (As a Chicago startup founder, I'll just add that I hope we don't become a "tech hub". A diverse business community is one of our biggest strengths.)
Chicago has been, and will continue to be, one of the largest tech hubs in the world. We just are not as dominant as we used to be. (speaking as a former Chicago startup founder)
I appreciate BuiltInChicago as an effective way to promote knowledge about the Chicago tech scene and I looked there the last couple times I was job-searching, but this list is really uninspiring. Uber for [moving, dry-cleaning, beauty needs], clones of better-known startups, clones of startups that have already failed. There should be more focus on what Chicago's uniquely good at, and what makes us not just a worse-…
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Feel free to add your own links. Or do we just have to take your word for it?
Here you go: http://watchdog.org/96500/illinois-rewarded-for-misspending-...
Illinois’ error rate, from either overspending on food stamps or not spending enough, is 1.74 percent, according to Januari Smith, a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Human Services.
So (a) it's a tiny fraction, (b) it's an error metric, meaning some of it is money we didn't spend, and (c) nowhere is any of it categorized as "fraud".