Marcy Capron

Marcy Capron

CEO
Polymathic

Introduction

Partner/CEO at Polymathic. We build products for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and anyone else who loves to solve problems.

I am foremost a maker and technologist, secondly an amateur interior designer and baker of epic cupcakes.

I’m a born-and-raised Chicagoan. I started out as a photographer, got into the film and advertising worlds… and realized in the end that startup/tech culture was the best fit for me. Now, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Since my dad is a programmer-turned-entrepreneur and my mom’s a DIY die-hard, I’ve got enough examples of work ethic and follow-through to last me a lifetime.

Interests

Interests: 
Agile development
Bootstrapping
Design
Founding startups
HTML5
Interaction design
iOS
Javascript
Lean startups
Product design
Project mgmt
Python
Ruby
User experience
Women in tech

Availability

Type: Co-founder, Freelance or contract, Consulting, Full-time, Part-time
Focus:
Programming

Links

http://wearepolymathic.com

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Marcy Capron has a new connection.
Marcy commented on Marcy Capron's Blog entry Sweat equity is dead! No worries: you can still build great products.
“ We've been experimenting with royalty models after our advisors made the suggestion last year. Been really interesting! and YES we are overdue on coffeeeeeee! ”
05/20/2013 view reply
Marcy commented on Marcy Capron's Blog entry Sweat equity is dead! No worries: you can still build great products.
“ thank you for the kind words! and yep, I have both thought about doing a fund where 50k goes straight to product (designed solely for nontechnical teams, and would partner with my company)... as well as partnering with an incubator directly. bo... ”
05/17/2013 view reply
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Marcy Capron has a new connection.
Marcy commented on Marcy Capron's Blog entry Sweat equity is dead! No worries: you can still build great products.
“ We've been experimenting with royalty models after our advisors made the suggestion last year. Been really interesting! and YES we are overdue on coffeeeeeee! ”
05/20/2013 view reply
Marcy commented on Marcy Capron's Blog entry Sweat equity is dead! No worries: you can still build great products.
“ thank you for the kind words! and yep, I have both thought about doing a fund where 50k goes straight to product (designed solely for nontechnical teams, and would partner with my company)... as well as partnering with an incubator directly. bo... ”
05/17/2013 view reply
Marcy commented on Marcy Capron's Blog entry Sweat equity is dead! No worries: you can still build great products.
“ oops my comment above was supposed to go here! ha. 100% agreed! ”
05/17/2013 view reply
Marcy posted a blog: Sweat equity is dead! No worries: you can still build great products.
“ Guess what!  Sweat equity is dead in Chicago.   Okay, there are a few exceptions in the developer communities.    But other than that, dead.  Therefore, I write this with bold transparency: I am a former programmer turned fou... ”
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Marcy Capron has a new connection.
Marcy answered Does Built In Chicago actually work?
“ It's been great for hiring, and for learning what's going on in a very hyperlocal way that I would never know about otherwise. ”
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Marcy commented on Sharon Schneider's Blog entry The Entrepreneur's Hoax, and Why I Won't Play Along
“ This is precisely why I am starting that FounderTherapy group. We cannot afford to stay silent about what isn't going well or what we need help with. And fwiw my typical response — if it's to someone who doesn't need to know my business beyond a c... ”
03/07/2013 view reply
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recent blog posts

Marcy Capron
Sweat equity is dead! No worries: you can still build great products.
Guess what!  Sweat equity is dead in Chicago.   Okay, there are a few exceptions in the developer communities.    But other than that, dead.   Therefore, I write this with bold transparency: I am a former programmer turned founder, who leads a team of programmers. Each...
05/14/2013
TAGS: agency, cofounder, consulting,...
VIEWS: 1,455
Marcy Capron
"Hipster", "Hacker", "Hustler"? I like "Maker".
I've recently seen some articles (in Forbes
11/27/2012
TAGS: business, CEO, creative director,...
VIEWS: 2,017
Marcy Capron
Free tools for startups: Junto is pivoting.
A very appropriate pivot, in fact: Junto 2.0.  We will continue to build startups for nontechnical founders – this is our primary service for the foreseeable future, as it has been from the get-go – but we will also be releasing internal tools to founders outside of our...
04/13/2012
VIEWS: 330
Marcy Capron
Introducing Junto: Do you know any entrepreneurs without a technical co-founder?
Send 'em our way.  We're a new type of incubation environment called Junto and we're on the hunt for the coolest startups brewing in Chicagoland.   My team and I are building a vehicle for startup funding, prototype/iteration research & development, and testing/launch. It is designed for small-...
07/07/2011
VIEWS: 417

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