Civic Innovation Summer

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Field trip to 1871

Everybody loves field trips.

Tour of 1871

• 1871 is a digital startup center of Chicago

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

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

Tour of 1871

• What kind of companies come to 1871?

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

1871’s Starter League

• What is Starter League?

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

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

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

Jobs at startups

• It’s not just about programmers!

Jobs at startups

• Project managers• Product leaders• Sales people• Social media experts• Office managers• Public/press relations• What else?

Speakers

• Mari Huertas: project manager• Jason Kunesh: user experience designer• Rayid Ghani: data analytics• Gene Leynes from Yolobe

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?

More 1871 speakers!

• Jimmy Odom from WeDeliver• Dirk McCoy from Spendbot• Rod Rakic from OpenAirplane