Chicago Innovation Blog

by | Jan 1, 1970

The beauty industry is a 75 billion dollar machine where the average service provider, who we call Artists, earns a poverty wage of 22K per year. LISA has created a B2B open-marketplace infrastructure to help the Artist community work entrepreneurially on their own terms. Corporations are spending a fortune recruiting, hiring and training top talent. LISA is able to assist these corporations with our next generation perk suite. These companies love not only the services, but, the easy to use technology for their employees, allowing them to schedule, book and pay directly in The LISA App – saving the HR/ Benefit Directors 2-3 hours per week in maintenance. Companies like GrubHub, Echo, Enova, BBB, @properties, 1871, Ogilvy, SpotHero to name a few, are among the forward thinking companies that realize LISA does not just provide a ‘beauty service’ to their employees, but a smart and savvy technology they can be proud to share with their team.

Women Mentoring Women: Here’s Why It Matters

Women Mentoring Women: Here’s Why It Matters

"If it weren’t for women’s mentoring, I wouldn’t be where or who I am today." - former Chicago Innovation Women Mentoring Co-op mentee, Michelle Rivas, discusses the impact of having female mentors.

Patents Not Required to be an Innovation Powerhouse

Patents Not Required to be an Innovation Powerhouse

Letter to the Editor: Too often we see entrepreneurs invest too many resources in pursuing patents, when what they should be doing is investing their time and money on identifying and solving customers' unmet needs, write Tom Kuczmarski and Luke Tanen of Chicago...

Patents Not Required to be an Innovation Powerhouse

Chicago Innovation Awards spotlight internet of things and AI

Twenty companies, from startups to Fortune 500 giants, won Chicago Innovation Awards for new products and services that bring the "internet of things" to health care, vehicles and foods, as well as holograms that bring museum exhibits to life.