Studio Rendering, Inc.

<p><span style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; ">Studio Rendering is an award-winning 3D computer graphics studio. We merge talent + technology to tell your story through impactful visual experiences.&nbsp;</span></p>

Cress Media

<div>Cress Media is an Engagement Marketing company that helps brands market through humor, smiles, and awesomeness.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>With over 4 years experience learning improv and comedy writing at Second City we bring a standard of excellence to the digital content we create (like videos, articles, pictures &amp; podcasts) that is unmatched.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>If you are looking to marketing to a 21-35 year old demographic then we are the ones to get them talking, engaging, and having fun with your brand in a completely integrated way.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.07692em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.39286em; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-transform: uppercase;">WHO WE ARE</span></div><div><div class="editable_region story visible" data-responses="[{&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2015-04-03T19:08:39Z&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:162019,&quot;question&quot;:&quot;reason&quot;,&quot;response&quot;:&quot;Our mission is to help people achieve their dreams through a love of sports.\n\nWe are creators who always dreamed of working in sports. We want to give that opportunity to other talented sports fans because we know how important passion is to what you do.\n\nWe put everything we have into every video we create, post we send, and event we throw because we want it to be the best and we love what we are doing. The passion and enthusiasm we have is unrivaled and it comes across in everything we do.&quot;,&quot;startup_id&quot;:658761,&quot;updated_at&quot;:&quot;2015-04-07T13:02:54Z&quot;,&quot;user_id&quot;:null},{&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2015-04-07T13:02:53Z&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:162559,&quot;question&quot;:&quot;story&quot;,&quot;response&quot;:&quot;With all due respect to MJ, Larry, and Magic, we are the new Dream Team. At Cress Media we hustle like Rick Ross, create like Steph Curry, and have the drive and determination of Kobe Bryant. We\u2019re always watching sports, have a smile on our face, and believe this is gonna be a great day. We don\u2019t stop creating, thinking, or laughing and really like bacon and beer.&quot;,&quot;startup_id&quot;:658761,&quot;updated_at&quot;:&quot;2015-04-07T13:02:53Z&quot;,&quot;user_id&quot;:null},{&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2015-04-07T13:06:14Z&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:162562,&quot;question&quot;:&quot;accomplishments&quot;,&quot;response&quot;:&quot;In three years creating original sports comedy articles, photos, and videos on BaconSports.com we've seen over 500,000+ unique visitors, 1,000,000+ page views, and 100,000+ YouTube video views. We did this while being completely bootstrapped, spending no money on advertising or marketing.&quot;,&quot;startup_id&quot;:658761,&quot;updated_at&quot;:&quot;2015-04-07T13:06:14Z&quot;,&quot;user_id&quot;:1126397}]" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.5px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="show" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 1.07692em; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="responses" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="group story" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="response story" style="margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;">With all due respect to MJ, Larry, and Magic, we are the new Dream Team. At Cress Media we hustle like Rick Ross, create like Steph Curry, and have the drive and determination of Kobe Bryant. We’re always watching sports, have a smile on our face, and believe this is gonna be a great day. We don’t stop creating, thinking, or laughing and really like bacon and beer.</p></div></div></div><div class="group reason" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="question" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.39286em; font-size: 1.07692em; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">WHY WE'RE DOING THIS</div><div class="reason response" style="margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our mission is to help people achieve their dreams through a love of sports.</p><p style="margin: 14px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are creators who always dreamed of working in sports. We want to give that opportunity to other talented sports fans because we know how important passion is to what you do.</p><p style="margin: 14px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline;">We put everything we have into every video we create, post we send, and event we throw because we want it to be the best and we love what we are doing. The passion and enthusiasm we have is unrivaled and it comes across in everything we do.</p></div></div></div><div class="accomplishments group" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; vertical-align: baseline; min-height: 15px;"><div class="question" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.39286em; font-size: 1.07692em; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MOST IMPRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT</div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; line-height: 20.9999389648438px;">I</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 13.9999599456787px; line-height: 20.9999389648438px;">n three years creating original sports comedy articles, photos, and videos on BaconSports.com we've seen over 500,000+ unique visitors, 1,000,000+ page views, and 100,000+ YouTube video views. We did this while being completely bootstrapped, spending no money on advertising or marketing.</span></p>

SpyderWeb

<p>SpyderWeb is a group of creative entrepreneurs focused on our client's online marketing &amp; branding strategies aided by superior website development &amp; design. We are detail-oriented designers that are obsessed with analytics and improving our web projects, as well as experimenting with new social channels in strategic manners to convert online visitors to paid customers.</p><div>&nbsp;</div>

Pete Wiltjer Marketing Group

<p><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">PWMG, Inc. is a boutique PR and marketing agency based in the Fox River Valley. We develop innovative digital strategies for our clients, then provide the media relations, tactical content, marketing and strategic support designed to help our clients raise awareness of their capabilities and differentiate themselves in competitive markets. We help our clients to identify the right prospects, leading them to faster and better growth.&nbsp;</span></p>

Fractal Rails

<p><span style="color: rgb(78, 86, 101); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.8181819915771px; line-height: 16px;">We are a cross-platform software development company headquartered in Chicago. We are a passionate and comitted team whose work is inspired by the fractal nature of life. We build software that is : Beautiful, Simple, Robust</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: rgb(78, 86, 101); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.8181819915771px; line-height: 16px;">&nbsp;</span></p>

MassInteract

<dl><dd class="basic-info-description" style="margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="container description" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><div class="text-logo" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;[ibimage==38598==Small==none==self==null]</div><div>Bring your business to life! <strong>MassInteract</strong> is The Fastest Growing Google-trusted marketing agency located in Chicago, IL. At <strong>MassInteract</strong>, we bring the technology from Google Street View into your business, creating a premium-quality 360-degree panoramic tour of the inside of your venue. With Google Maps Business View, your customers can walk around, explore, and interact with your business like never before. Customers will be able to step inside your space, all from their computer or mobile device.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Google Maps Business View gives you:</div><div>&nbsp;</div><ul><li>A virtual tour of your space posted on Google searches</li><li>High definition photographs of your business’ commodities</li><li>Enhanced SEO and Google search results</li><li>Integration into Google Street View</li><li>Integration into Google Maps</li><li>Hosting on Google+ Local&nbsp;</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div>We make the process simple and quick at no extra work to you. Each of these benefits and more lasts for the lifetime of your business. All of this for just a one-time low cost to you.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Showcase all the details that you love about your business to the world!</div></div></div></dd></dl><p>&nbsp;</p>

Evolution Point

<p><span itemprop="brand">Evolution Point</span> is<span itemprop="description"> a Chicago-based strategic marketing agency which specializes in <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> brand strategy</span>, <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> product launches</span>, interactive <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> web development</span>, <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> social media</span>, <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> search engine marketing</span>, and <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> inbound marketing (marketing to sales conversion)</span></span>.</p>

Ellipsis Productions

We produce videos. All kinds of ‘em: animated, live-action, scripted, unscripted, modular, mass-personalized, doc-style, funny, funny-ish, haha funny, deep, dramatic, brooding — and any combination thereof.

Enlighten PR

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.773332595825195px;">Enlighten PR was created when we realized the typical public relations model is broken for startups. Costly monthly retainers make it difficult to justify spending startup dollars on PR.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.773332595825195px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.773332595825195px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.773332595825195px;">While managing the PR for Lightbank, and Lightbank portfolio companies, we saw demand from outside Chicago startups and Enlighten was born.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.773332595825195px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.773332595825195px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.773332595825195px;">We want startups to get the messaging, social media, content marketing and media results they need for a reasonable price. We help startups get off the ground or announce their latest fundraise.</span></p>

Capitis Media

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">Capitis Media is an Internet Marketing and Web Design Firm with its headquarters in Chicago, IL. We&nbsp;specialize in search engine optimization and lead conversion. Capitis Media is committed to providing&nbsp;the best digital marketing products &amp; services to our clients to dramatically increase their online&nbsp;presence and bottom-line results.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">Our company was born out of the efforts to build and develop our own websites. Our founders&nbsp;discovered firsthand what it takes to increase each site’s ranking in search. We learned what worked&nbsp;and what didn’t work, but most importantly we learned how much effort it takes to increase a site’s&nbsp;rank.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">As our sites became better optimized, the benefits and business results dramatically improved. The&nbsp;more we learned, the more we understood that SEO is not something that most business can or should&nbsp;be doing internally. It takes focus to stay informed of the constantly changing world of search engine&nbsp;optimization. The way things are done now is not the way they were done in the past, nor is it the way&nbsp;they will be done in the future.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">We decided to leverage our knowledge and infrastructure to form a company that focuses 100% of our&nbsp;efforts on helping other companies increase their traffic and gain more visibility online. If your company&nbsp;website is to be found on the Internet by potential customers that do not know you exist, but are&nbsp;looking for the products or services you offer, you need to be found in the search engines.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">Capitis Media strives to establish a long-term and effective relationship that gives personal attention to&nbsp;each of our clients. We know what your goals are, and you know our planned digital marketing strategy&nbsp;for your business or company.</p>

Fielday Marketing

A Fielday is the kind of day every company wants. It’s our way of defining the moments in the day when your brand is chosen over your competition. That’s why we partner with leading marketers to make choosing your brand simple, obvious, and outrageously fun. We know conversion moments can require specific incentives depending on your brand’s industry and your target’s place in the sales cycle, so we use data to design your program using a deep arsenal of traditional, digital, and mobile techniques. With the track record and the technology to turn interactions into conversions, we make every day a Fielday.

Harley Ellis Devereaux

Harley Ellis Devereaux is an award-winning, full-service organization offering a complete range of planning, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, interior design, and construction services. The firm has offices in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, and serves customers across the nation and around the world.

Leff Communications, Inc.

Leff Communications is a new kind of marketing communications firm. We work with smart people to make their complicated ideas more accessible to a general business audience through concise writing, captivating graphic and document design, and industry-leading video production.

conjur LLC

Conjur specializes in helping founders identify, test, and build their prototypes.

Storyteller Group

Storyteller Group helps B2B technology companies define or refine their story, then share it in ways that inspire people to buy from them or refer them to others who will. Services include: * Audience insights/persona development * Brand platforms * Campaign content strategy and development * Content marketing workshops

EDUCO

We help you refine, develop & launch your ideas on the web.

312 Elements Headshot Photography

We started as a headshot photography company and now we're looking to disrupt the photography education community. We're utilizing learndash and woocommerce in wordpress build to distribute content to students across the world. If you need a professional headshot, hit me up, I'd love to pick your brain.

cre8

cre8 is a Chicago web design and development firm that builds CMS-based lead generation-focused platforms for businesses worldwide. Leveraging our experience with multiple content management systems and CRM platforms, cre8 can craft a framework to capture, save and manage leads for your business.

Marco & Associates

Marco & Associates is a Chicago-based staffing and recruiting firm specializing in technical finance and accounting roles. We offer direct hire, project consulting, interim management, and temporary staffing options to assist with all of our client's hiring needs. At Marco & Associates, we have one goal: we want to see that you reach yours.

The Chicago Hire Company

We are a woman-owned, boutique recruiting firm who puts people first. We are your partners for temporary, temp-to-hire, and permanent roles in the administrative, human resources and corporate marketing fields as well as entry-level positions for fresh grads. For 20 years, our team has embraced service and innovation while serving Chicago.