Chicago’s innovation community and where value grows from

This week the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC) produced what, in my judgement, should be viewed as an annual report card on Chicago’s innovation community. As they have every year since 2013, ISTC examined the…


It doesn’t take a Potemkin Village

There are two villages in Chicago. One is the Potemkin Village. The other is our village.

You are welcome in our village, but understand that in our village, we live by a set of norms:

  1. Deal flow moves fast;