As Crain's tech blogger John Pletz reported last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is so impressed with the success of 1871, the incubator for tech startups at the Merchandise Mart, he'd like to do it again.
Mr. Emanuel threw out the expansion idea during a meeting earlier this month at City Hall with...
Join Crain's Chicago Business for a moderated conversation and audience Q&A with Paul Lee, a partner at Lightbank who led the venture capital firm’s early-stage investments in, among other startups, BabbaCo, Cleversense (acquired by Google), ElaCarte, Lifecrowd and WhosHere.
(Crain's) -- No one wants to see the price of gasoline climb to $5 a gallon, but one Chicago startup could get a lift from more people trading in cars for electric scooters or motorcycles.
As was widely reported Tuesday, Gtrot has totally rejiggered its business model. Crain's contributor Steve Hendershot caught up with Gtrot CEO Zach Smith to talk about the repositioning of the site. First big takeaway: a recognition that trip-planning is a tough business to gain traction in....
