Since opening Bow Truss Coffee Roasters in Lakeview a mere six months ago we’ve grown by leaps and bounds—We’ve earned a loyal following, built up partnerships, held events, hosted pop-up shops and won over the … Continued
Yesterday we hosted a Twitter chat with Chicago Ideas Week. During the #ideaschat we picked up some great, practical tips for scaling creativity. Here are six tips we wanted to share with you: Create the … Continued
With the holidays fast approaching two pop-ups in one weekend just isn’t enough. That’s why Bow Truss Coffee Roasters is bringing you a Holiday Market with over 20 vendors! We have searched high and low … Continued
If your job involves being creative—which it probably does since you’re reading this blog—you don’t want to miss our upcoming Twitter Chat. Twitter Chats are public conversations held on Twitter that revolve around a single … Continued
Entrepreneurs Unpluggd is a speaker series created to share the stories of how entrepreneurs got their start. This month’s event focused on Startup Stages: Launch, Growth and Beyond. Speakers Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals, Liz … Continued
CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types that Doejo had the pleasure of hosting last month. We had so much fun hosting the event and couldn’t wait to attend Scott Reinhard’s talk last week. … Continued
Last week we attended Tech Cocktail’s Chicago mixer where Rishi Shah, founder and CEO of Context Media and Melissa Pierce, the founder of Chicago Woman Developers, shared why they are advocates of diversity in the … Continued
This month’s speaker was Jason Fried, the founder of 37signals and the co-author of REWORK. Fried opened his talk with a video from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who coined the term disruptive technologies. … Continued
Bow Truss Coffee Roasters will be hosting the Chicago stop on Kalita USA’s first tour of North America. Kalita will be cruising through the Windy City as part of its “Yes We Kantan” tour on December … Continued
On November 14th Phil Tadros, co-founder of Doejo and Kelsey Kreiling, Doejo’s Social Media Director, spoke at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. To kick off the talk Phil spoke about the community building skills … Continued
For those of you unfamiliar with The Leapyear Project, it’s the self-education/ self-discovery endeavor of Chicagoan Victor Saad where he’s been shadowing entrepreneurs, finding apprenticeships, taking unusual classes and ultimately, creating his own MBA program. … Continued
Founders Stories is a monthly series of in-depth interviews where local entrepreneurs share their success stories. This month’s event featured Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal; two founders who shared the incredible growth story behind their … Continued
The first-ever all-city crowd-sourced advertising competition is going down at The Double Door on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. 30 Seconds Over Chicago is an advertising competition where they are crowd-sourcing the creative process to make … Continued
This weekend was tremendously eventful at our coffeeshop and roaster, Bow Truss. While announcing our second (and third) forthcoming locations, Bow Truss Coffee Roasters has also teamed up with local crowd-sourced t-shirt design company, Threadless to … Continued
We are excited to announce that Phil Tadros, co-founder of Doejo and Kelsey Kreiling, Doejo’s Social Media Director, will be speaking at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. on Wednesday, November 14th at 7 p.m. During … Continued
Steve Shanabruch is the man behind The Chicago Neighborhoods project, an adventure in graphic design that melds his passion for design and his love for the city of Chicago’s diverse collection of neighborhoods. By day, … Continued
Last Friday we had the privilege of hosting the Chicago chapter of Creative Mornings. Creative Mornings is a global monthly gathering of creative types founded by Tina Roth Eisenberg. Eisnberg also runs design blog swissmiss … Continued
For its 14th live pitch event, Technori invited unknown Chicago success story Orlando Saez to the stage. Saez is an entrepreneur probably best known for developing Boingo Wireless, a global Wi-Fi provider that is regarded as … Continued
