Talking with Crain's Chicago Business about Chicago vs. San Francisco
Chicago’s fitness as a city friendly to tech startups got a big boost this month as Groupon founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell announced plans to establish a seed funding investment firm called Lightbank, and another group of entrepreneurs launched Excelerate, a startup bootcamp modeled after TechStars.
But Chicago’s tech community also suffered a loss in March, as Brenden Mulligan moved to San Francisco. Mr. Mulligan, 29, is founder and CEO of ArtistData, a Web site that allows musicians to sync data such as concert information across multiple Web sites including Twitter and MySpace. The site has more than 20,000 users, and the company was a Chicago Innovation Awards finalist in 2009.
Mr. Mulligan explains his reasons for leaving Chicago, as well as his thoughts on Chicago’s startup community, to Crain’s contributor Steve Hendershot:
