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CEO Lessons from Reality Television
Business is booming, and reality television is buying big into shows featuring everyone and everything from corporate CEOs hiring managers to entrepreneurs hoping to land investments. Viewers watch as companies... Read »
Asking the Right Questions When Hiring Summer Interns
Summer sees a spike in hiring as students are released from classes and left with time to spare. Whether they’re looking for some extra cash to support their freedom or padding their resume towards that... Read »
Want More Money? Shorten Your Name: Study
Here's a weird one: "Every additional letter added to your name accounts for a $3,600 drop in annual salary" according to online job matching site TheLadders. What the baseline or ideal number of letters in your... Read »
Why Ambitious, Talented Young Individuals Fail
I’ve had three conversations on this topic last week and I decided, “Hey, I came up with some interesting points on this, so I’ll share it online.” It’s kinda nice being able to have practice versions of... Read »
How to Survive a Conference
My eyes are bloodshot, pain shoots down my legs and chances are I’ve gained at least five pounds in the last week -- these are the perils of attending conferences. So how do you minimize the damage you'll... Read »
Why Encouraging Employees to Pull Stunts for Raises Will Backfire
Did you hear about the Brooklyn company, Rapid Realty, that offered its employees a 15 percent raise if they got a tattoo of the company logo somewhere on their bodies. Forty of the company’s 800 workers went... Read »
(Some) Stress is Good For You: Study
Not sure how entrepreneurs (or their spouses) will take this news, but University of California researchers have found that stress can actually be a “powerful and essential mediator of mammalian behavior.” In... Read »
How Big Should I Be?: The Question Most Entrepreneurs Forget to Ask
At the beginning of any entrepreneur's journey are countless questions. Will I bootstrap or pursue funding? Will I hire staff or remain a solopreneur? Will I work from home or invest in office space? There is... Read »
Why You Need an Accountability Partner Right Now
Entrepreneurs are often great at making lists. We have grand plans to expand, conquer and define our territory. So why do certain items keep getting pushed down that to-do list and never actually get done? Read »
Why You Should Manage Your Reputation, Not Your Relationships
As the co-inventor of ACT!, the product credited as the catalyst for the customer relationship management industry, I’m surprisingly not a champion of the concept of “managing relationships." I don’t think... Read »
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Spotlight: Guaranteed Rate
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CEO Spotlight: Enova's David Fisher
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Rahm Lauds Tech Incubator 1871
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Spring Clean Your Career
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Spotlight: Redbox Instant's Amy Gibby
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Ask an Owner: Work on Business, Not in Business
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Ask an Owner: Keep an Eye on the Money
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Ask an Owner: Have a Clear Branding, Marketing Strategy
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Ask an Owner: Why You Need to Delegate Tasks
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Ask An Owner: The Biggest Lesson Learned
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Ask an Owner: Share Your Idea
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Just One Drink: Chef Stephanie Izard
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Spotlight: Baird Capital Venture Partners
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Spotlight: Discover Card's Mike Boush
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CEO Spotlight: Threadless Founder Jake Nickell
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CEO Spotlight: kCura's Andrew Sieja
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Spotlight: Sertifi's John and Nick Stojka
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Just One Drink: Chef Fabio Viviani
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'Salsa Truck' Gets City's First License for Onboard Cooking
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Pets
Some officials have estimated the City of Chicago's dog population to be somewhere around 500,000. Add in all the cats, fish and birds and you've got yourself an industry just begging -- and barking -- to be...
Fashion
There are plenty of questions for a fledgling fashionista to answer. Never fear: We've got the goods.
Marketing
Good luck making a dent in the public conscience if you don't have marketing and branding plan to get your message out.
Food Business
Experts say 90 percent of new restaurants fail in their first year of operation. You want to be the 10 percent that makes it. But how?
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David Wolinsky
David Wolinsky is a freelance writer, lifelong Chicagoan, and reasonably handsome business-study scion.
Kim Vatis
Kim Vatis joined NBC5 News in 1997. She currently Anchors the weekend morning newscasts, is general assignment reporter and special projects reporter for the 10 PM newscasts.
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