Why You Should Start a Company in Chicago | Fast Company

These days Chicago’s startup culture is aimed at the steady and sure. As Matt McCall, a partner at New World Ventures and managing director at DFJ Portage, notes, Chicago is home to many of the largest companies in the country, including Accenture, Boeing, Integrys Energy, MillerCoors, McDonald’s, ACNielsen, Trans Union, and Fortune Brands. The list is long and comprehensive. For startups, it means a rich source of customers for products that fill a need or enhance their businesses.

Chicago has a mixture of a lot of very interesting things. I’ll start with the first, which is the customers are here. There are more Fortune 500s in this region than anywhere else in the U.S.
(Link: Why You Should Start a Company in Chicago | Fast Company)