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An Engineer Designed These Sports Bras, Inspired by Chicago Architecture
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An Engineer Designed These Sports Bras, Inspired by Chicago Architecture

Chicago’s unique architecture played muse to two Chicago entrepreneurs jumping into the fashion business. Powwful is a new line of colorful, full coverage sports bras designed by Chicago entrepreneurs Lotika…

Wintrust Business Lunch with Suzanne Muchin | Jon Najarian, Andrew Herrmann, John Flavin, and Amanda Moreno

It’s time for the Wintrust Business Lunch with Suzanne Muchin! On today’s show Suzanne welcomes: Jon Najarian (Najarian Family Offices), Andrew Herrmann (DNAinfo), John Flavin, and Amanda Moreno (Erikson Institute).…

Breaking Down the Election With BallotReady

On this week’s podcast, Karis heads to the Polsky Exchange North in Hyde Park to catch up with Aviva Rosman and Alex Niemczewski, cofounders of BallotReady, a voter education platform…

This Startup Wants to Lay the Groundwork for Future loT Startups

As the price of connected sensors continues to drop, companies are coming up with ever-more inventive ways to do things like embed them into kids’ clothes, use them to track…

Why This Startup is Looking at AI to Make Your Golf Swing Better

Golfers are notoriously fond of gadgets, from technologically advanced clubs to niche tools for getting out of tight situations, all in the hope that tech will help improve their game.…

Polsky Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Shares Advice in Entrepreneurship

Former leader of two successful start-ups, SurePayroll and The Tie Bar, shared five pieces of essential advice in entrepreneurship to a group of students on Thursday. Michael Alter, who is…

UChicago-Founded Menswear Startup Has a Kickstarter Success on Day One

In less than 12 hours last week, a Chicago-based menswear fashion startup exceeded twice its funding goal of $15,000. The Kickstarter for Portefini’s first product, the Everyday Blazer, launched Nov.…

The Evolution of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

As 2016 draws to a close, the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) community is in a unique situation. “Search funds”, the predominant model historically and the focus of…

Taking a Bite

When grocery store shelves and fast-food drive-throughs didn’t have what they were looking for, Booth students and graduates didn’t get frustrated. They got inspired. Read more.

BallotReady Wants to Help Decode Your Intimidatingly Long Voting Ballot

In 2012, Alex Niemczewski was a recent University of Chicago graduate with a background in nonprofit community work—young, well-educated, civic-minded. As you might expect, she went to cast a ballot.…

Scientist Builds Drug Development Company Out of Research Lab

When Cathryn Nagler set out to develop drugs to treat childhood food allergies, she knew she was heading into unchartered territory. Although Nagler, the Bunning Food Allergy Professor, has been…

Panelists Talk Politics and Technology at Polsky

The University of Chicago’s (U. of C.) Institute of Politics (IOP) co hosted a talk earlier today, Oct. 27, on how technology has changed and will change the elections process.…
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