S
orry Silicon Valley, two guys from Chicago say your moment in the sun
is over.
They are Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, angel investors at a new firm called Lightbank. They helped found Chicago-based startups Groupon and Mediabank. For their next trick, they are betting millions of dollars on a series of startups in Chicago, the midwestern home of successful startups FeedBurner, Groupon, Threadless and 37Signals.
Eric tells us Chicago is part of a larger story about a "migration" of Internet startups "away from the Valley."
To read the full, original article click on this link: Chicago To Silicon Valley: It's Our Time Now, Pal
Author: Nicholas Carlson
