#CivicSummer at 1871
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Transcript of #CivicSummer at 1871
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Civic Innovation Summer
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Field trip to 1871
Everybody loves field trips.
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Tour of 1871
• 1871 is a digital startup center of Chicago
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Tour of 1871
• What service does 1871 serve to the community?
• It gives tiny companies and startups a place to meet and work together without having to spend huge overhead ($$$) on an office
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Tour of 1871
• Allows community members to share ideas and work together on tech projects
• This photo is from Chicago’s OpenGov Hack Night at 1871
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Tour of 1871
• What kind of companies come to 1871?
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Tour of 1871
• Sometimes an entire startup will base themselves out of 1871, like A Better Chicago, iHeartArt, Weave the People
• Others will work out of 1871 occasionally: Knight Lab, members of the Obama campaign
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1871’s Starter League
• What is Starter League?
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1871’s Starter League
• Starter League used to be Code Academy, a coding resource that helps you learn new programming languages
• Starter League partnered with a local company, 37signals, to teach programming at 1871
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1871’s Starter League
• Starter League teaches classes on HTML, CSS, all they way up to Ruby classes
• Not just programming classes: UI/UX design classes too
• Starter League shows you don’t have to get a university degree to start getting into tech
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1871’s Starter League
• Starter League does cost money: $8,000 for full web development course, or $2,000 for just HTML & CSS
• Can be molded around a work or school schedule
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Jobs at startups
• It’s not just about programmers!
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Jobs at startups
• Project managers• Product leaders• Sales people• Social media experts• Office managers• Public/press relations• What else?
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Speakers
• Mari Huertas: project manager• Jason Kunesh: user experience designer• Rayid Ghani: data analytics• Gene Leynes from Yolobe
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1871 companies
• What were their paths to creating companies?• Where did they work before? What interests
did they have?• What was the catalyst to drive them to start a
new company?
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More 1871 speakers!
• Jimmy Odom from WeDeliver• Dirk McCoy from Spendbot• Rod Rakic from OpenAirplane