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Cell Phones Being Used to Track Store Visits
Imagine a world where receptors are able to detect people coming into a place without the tracked person’s knowledge, perceiving and recording their motions every time they move. Big Brother …
John Romaniello Discusses Engineering the Alpha
John Romaniello (Roman, for short) is a self-made man. Literally and figuratively; the guy makes his living sculpting human beings, and is a paragon of Internet entrepreneurs. He makes a …
A New 1871: Chicago’s Digital Startup Community Booms
A New 1871 History remembers 1871 for the Great Chicago Fire, but the lasting legacy was the reconstruction that followed when innovators, architects and entrepreneurs flocked to the city. The …
Better Weekdays is Bringing Clarity to the Job Search
As students hunting for internships and full time jobs, we are constantly faced with the prospect of handing out a hundred copies of our resume at career fairs, and combing …
AlumTalks Founder, Now an Alum, Talks Entrepreneurship
If you are starting your own company, Chirag Gupta (MEAS ’12) will tell you that “doing what you do is already enough.” Gupta is the co-founder of AlumTalks, a budding …
Driving Test? What’s a Driving Test? Our Future with Driverless Cars
Believe it or not, you may see a driverless car pull up next to you on the road sooner than you think—that is, if you haven’t already. Driverless cars are …
Dell Reversing the Public Company Trend
Perhaps one of the first few terms one learns in a Wall Street course is initial public offering (IPO). Every year several companies choose to take their private company public …
Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Bits?
Photo Credit : Zach Copley The goal of those behind Bitcoin is about as lofty as they come: fundamentally change the way people around the world think about and use …
Unraveling the Mess at Groupon
Photo Credit : Groupon In 2002, as a response to the accounting scandals at Enron and Worldcom, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The law deals with a company’s internal controls …
NU Professor’s Novel Approach to the Equity Agreement
In Slicing Pie, Northwestern professor Mike Moyer describes the process by which young start-up companies should tackle the often mismanaged problem of splitting company equity. More specifically, Moyer explains how …
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