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Go to There: Red Radius' Co-Founder Speed Dating
It's a little early for New Year's Resolutions -- and who really does those, anyway? -- but come Nov. 27 you could scratch "try speed dating" and "find a co-founder" off your to-do list in one fell swoop. Red... Read »
Go to There: Unwrap Chicago: Buy Local
This is more of a "go to your radar" more than a specific event you can attend per se, but surely you've heard of the "localvore" movement, or if not, folks who try to above all else support local merchants... Read »
Go to There: Building Your Brand Through Facebook Webinar
Like it or not, Facebook isn't going anywhere anytime soon. It will continue to shift, change, morph and evolve as a social-networking platform, but its ubiquity for civilians and businesses alike is here to... Read »
Go to There: Employment Law Forum: Immigration Policy
Last year, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas wrote an amazing warts-and-all look at, as he called it, his "life as an undocumented immigrant" who'd been working illegally most of his life in the United States... Read »
Go to There: Why to Export Seminar
Who said we never produce anything anymore? We must be making some stuff, because there’s a whole seminar on Nov. 1 out at Rosemont about it. If it entices you already, the deadline to register is Oct. 31 and... Read »
Go to There: Startup Bootcamp at Next Door
It’s great to read about startups and it’s great to pitch your ideas off your colleagues, friends and family. But at some point you gotta get off the computer and go back into the meatspace to see if your... Read »
Go to There: Next Door’s Budgeting Workshop
It’s a one-hour free workshop called “I Suck At Budgeting,” so there’s little room to misinterpret what this is all about. Malcolm Bihm, who goes by “Coach Malcolm,” will be working this event, and the goal is... Read »
Go to There: BuzzFeed's How to Create the Ultimate Brand Experience Seminar
Okay, so BuzzFeed's founder Jonah Peretti is speaking during Chicago Ideas Week, but some of his brethren will also be in town doing a separate event dropping some more knowledge bombs. Instead of heading to... Read »
Go to There: Free Session on Avoiding Startup Legal Pitfalls
God bless Next Door. I've written about them before as one of the cool co-working spaces in Chicago, and the State Farm-run space continues to prove itself as an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs. Later this... Read »
Go to There: Small Business Entrepreneur Expo
All right, this is kinda a no-brainer, but just in case you haven't heard of it and need a little bit of convincing: City Treasurer Stephanie D. Neely -- and friend of the Inc. Well blog -- is holding a daylong... Read »
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