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Out of 519 nominees, we are pleased to reveal the Top 100 Finalists for the 2018 Chicago Innovation Awards. The winners will be announced at the Harris Theater on October 29th. One of these winners will be chosen by YOU — click the button below to learn more about these organizations and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award!

C’est un site qui porte bien son nom. Depuis son lancement en 2013, Reverb.com n’a cessé de faire écho, de la France à l’Angleterre en passant par l’Allemagne et l’Australie. Mais tout a commencé à Chicago. C’est sur l’aire de jeu de Cheap Trick et des Smashing Pumpkins que le serial-entrepreneur David Kalt a l’idée d’une vie : créer le eBay de la musique.

On the latest in Reverb's Synth Sounds series, Will Kurk dives into the cosmic Moroder-produced disco classic.

Maroon 5 has been together for two decades, and they’re moving to bigger and better things — including their equipment! The chart-topping rock band will be selling almost 200 pieces of gear it had previously used both on stage and in the studio on Reverb.com’s Techno Empire shop. Items including microphones, guitars, drum machines and more will be available on Thursday, Aug. 30.

When it comes to selling on Reverb, Thunder Road Guitars' Frank Gross is a bit of an expert. An early adopter, Gross joined the platform about a month and a half after it first launched in 2013. While Thunder Road Guitars now has two brick-and-mortar locations - one in Seattle and one in Portland, Oregon - the vintage and rare guitar dealer has stayed true to its e-commerce roots by conducting about 65 percent of its business through online platforms including Reverb, which accounts for 25 percent of the business' total sales.

Oft confused with the similar phaser, flangers are in fact a distinct species all of their own. Reverb’s Dan Orkin examines the 10 bestselling pedals found on the online marketplace. The flanger is a simple yet deceptively versatile breed of effect. The way a flanger operates is similar to a phase shifter or chorus – by duplicating and offsetting the signal of the guitar with a short and modulating delay.

Beyond the direct competition from Amazon, small businesses are feeling the effects of the new generation of customer the company has created. Both the Millenials who have grown up with the eCommerce giant and the older generations who have become accustomed to it now expect the “Amazon experience” regardless of where they’re shopping. They want options. They want free shipping. They want their items to arrive shortly after they click “Place Your Order.” How can small businesses keep up?

Musical instrument marketplace Reverb has gotten ahead of its customers’ needs by taking a truly omnichannel approach to customer service. With its emphasis on strong knowledge management practices—and enthusiasm for self-service innovations that underlie them—the team proves that technology and support professionals can make beautiful music together.

We have a new guest in the form of Justin DeLay from Reverb.com who gives us some stats and info on Reverb's sales trends. After which we talk Novation's Launchpad, Korg Gadget used exclusively for movie score by composer Tony Longworth, and the crazy, free Floyd gig in Venice 1989.

At Reverb, an online marketplace for buying and selling music gear, it’s not unusual for employees to spring into an impromptu afternoon jam session, or to see music stars like Billy Corgan roaming the office halls. The startup, which has raised more than $45 million in venture capital, has an office that features music throughout, including walls that are lined with records and electric guitars.

Mastodon‘s Brent Hinds is selling off items from his personal instrument collection – guitars, organs and more used in the recording of the heavy metal band’s albums – through Reverb.com. "There comes a time in your life when you have to get rid of everything and for me, that time is now," Hinds said in a statement of the sale. "The music gear I’m selling in my Reverb shop is legitimate shit. All of it was heavily used—all over the world on tour, in the studio, and beyond. A lot of early Mastodon work was created on this gear."

The annual Inc. 5000 list is out, and many Chicago companies made this year’s prestigious ranking of fastest-growing private companies. This year Chicago moved up to sole possession of third place in terms of cities with the most Inc. 5000 companies. It was tied for third last year with Atlanta, which slipped to fourth. The Inc. 5000 rankings are measured by percent revenue growth from 2014 to 2017.

Today’s featured guitar is a TB1000A, or Artist, which was listed by the Chicago Music Exchange earlier this year. The Artist model was the higher-end counterpart to the standard TB1000S Bean model and was distinguished by its carved Hawaiian koa top, and block inlays in the style of a Black Beauty Les Paul Custom. The body shape on both models actually evolved some in their original run. The horns were made a bit larger in mid 1977, and the body made a bit thinner the following year.

For years I wanted to learn to play the guitar. Since I have limited experience, it's a bit daunting. Going to the guitar store I found literally hundreds of acoustic and electric guitars for sale, and no real guide to what's right for a middle aged beginner. I wanted a used acoustic guitar, in case I decided I simply didn't have the commitment or chops. Trying to find a good, reasonable quality guitar was really overwhelming. There are guitars on Craig's list, Reverb, at the guitar centers. New and used. Dozens of manufacturers. How's a rookie to know what to do?

That guitar or drum set you bought years ago because you thought you were going to start a band can be turned into cash if your dreams of rock stardom never materialized. In fact, J. Money reported selling an electric guitar, amps and accessories on Craigslist for $225. You also can sell musical instruments online through sites such as Reverb, which charges a 3.5 percent fee on sales, or at a physical retailer such as Guitar Center.

If you’re on the hunt for some new gear, a couple of things might cross your mind. Do you buy new or old? Do you look at shops, online marketplaces, or Facebook groups? Do you buy in Australia or overseas? When it comes to buying and renting gear, there are lots of things you may need to consider. Let’s take a look.

Reverb.com is a marketplace for new and used instruments and music equipment. The company also recently launched a marketplace for physical copies of music, Reverb LP. Dan Melnick is Reverb’s COO and the president of Reverb LP. Melnick said that when it comes to his team’s priorities, designing mobile-focused software and user experiences tops the list.

This week, we talk to Reverb.com’s Dan Orkin. Dan recounts the company’s early days, its explosive growth, some current marketplace trends when it come to guitars (including what’s hot right now and what isn’t) and a lot more.

A Freedom Custom double-neck, a Teye Mother of Pearl and a vintage 1973 Telecaster Bass are among the offerings. Former Black Crowes—and current Magpie Salute—guitarist Rich Robinson is partnering up with Reverb to sell off some of his favorite guitars. The axes on offer include a Freedom Custom double-neck, a Teye Mother of Pearl and a vintage 1973 Telecaster Bass, among others.

Reverb.com, the leading online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling music gear, announced on July 25 they have added Crystal Morris, CEO and co-founder of leading case manufacturer Gator Cases, to its board of directors. The long-time musical instrument industry executive and music education advocate will support Reverb—which recently surpassed $1 billion in total sales on the platform—as it continues to expand.

David Kalt remembers, with a smile, the Fender Stratocaster he dreamed of as a kid. He also recalls that great day in 1985 when he finally got a 1970s Strat! The instrument has a special place in his own passion for music, an idea and feeling he never forgot. In fact, it was that passion for musical instruments that inspired him to create Reverb.

Foo Fighters‘ Chris Shiflett is selling 20 guitars from his personal collection, including ones he used during his tenure with the rock band. "I have an excess of guitars that I’ve gotten over the years — I have more than I could even really play and more than I do play. It would be fun to see these things find a home elsewhere, where somebody’s going to actually play them and put scratches on them," Shiflett said of the sale.

Gang of Youths frontman Dave Le'aupepe is auctioning off the trusty six-string he used to write and record Go Farther In Lightness, the band's Hottest 100-busting, ARIA winning second studio album. The instrument is being auctioned through online music gear marketplace Reverb.com, and the singer-guitarist will donate all proceeds to Refugee and Immigrant Centre for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a Texas-based non-profit that provides free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees.

More than $600 million worth of music gear will be sold on the Reverb.com site this year. If it were a stand-alone music products retailer, it would rank as the second or third largest in the country. But as an online platform that allows thousands of individuals and businesses to connect with buyers, it falls into a different category.

In our 21st episode, we talk with Reverb.com CEO, David Kalt, who gives us a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what has grown into the world’s most popular music gear website, connecting millions of people around the globe. We also talk about a surprise move by Eastwood Guitars in The Shorts. And at the Back of the Show, we find out if polarization really helps.

Jamila Woods has joined forces with Louder Than a Bomb founder Kevin Coval for a limited edition 7-inch that will be released via Reverb LP and charity-focused label Vinyl For A Cause. All proceeds from the 7-inch will benefit Young Chicago Authors, an inclusive organization specializing arts education programs, at which both Woods and Coval serve as artistic directors.

ARIA award-winning local producer Lachlan “Magoo” Goold has worked with some of Australia’s biggest and best bands, and now he’s preparing to auction off some sweet studio gear that’s helped shape some iconic albums. He’s still mixing bands, but a new role as Head of Audio at JMC Academy in Brisbane means he’s selling his studio, Applewood, and some outboard studio equipment he’s used throughout his career along with it.

Reverb is an online marketplace for buying, selling, and learning about music gear. Late last year, they launched Reverb LP an online site for buying and selling records. David Kalt is the Founder & CEO of Reverb. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in computer science from DePaul University. Their dynamic growth in the last 5 years, has allowed them to open offices all around the world.

MIN’s editor, Gary Cooper, speaks with Kevin Drost, Chief Strategy Officer of Reverb.com – the online sales portal that could finally give UK music shops the chance to compete with the online giants. Though Reverb. com has been around for a few years now (since 2013 in fact) I have to admit that I had been only peripherally aware of it until recently, when a retailer friend told me he had started advertising on it.

David Kalt is the founder of Reverb.com, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear, and the owner of the Chicago Music Exchange, a vintage guitar store in Chicago. He also co-founded and was the former CEO of online broker optionsXpress.

Moby is doing the impossible: he’s selling his entire record collection for charity. Literally every single record the legendary producer has ever bought or purchased or carried around the world for his early DJ sets will be available for purchase. "I would rather you have them then me, because if you have them, you’ll play them, you’ll love them," he says, "and the money will go to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. So everybody wins. Well, except me, because now I don’t have any records."

Reverb.com is making a serious run for the title of “Chicago’s coolest tech office. The music gear and equipment marketplace announced today that it has doubled the size of its Roscoe Village headquarters, which now occupies 19,000 square feet. The expanded space features music-inspired artwork, a full video recording studio and space for a lot more team members.

Headlines haven’t been kind to electric guitars. Slipping sales year over year made for a bleak portrait, and by last September, even Eric Clapton wondered if the instrument was on its way out. “Maybe the guitar is over,” he mused, responding to reports that electric guitar sales had crashed half a million in a single decade and that industry leaders Gibson and Fender were both in debt.

While this may come as a shock to some, the opportunity to play ping pong and drink beer during office hours is rarely why people leave corporate life behind for the tech world. For many, the draw is the ability to make an instant impact with their work at companies whose cultures values new ideas and approaches. We spoke to six Chicago technologists who all worked in corporate America to learn more about why they left it all behind to join fast-growing tech companies.

Lady Gaga, Paramore's Hayley Williams and Kacey Musgraves are among the women donating their gear and memorabilia to be auctioned off on Reverb for a good cause. The proceeds from the auction will benefit the non-profit Girls Rock Camp Alliance, which works to provide summer camps and education opportunities for female, transgender and gender non-binary youth.

In 2016, U.S. consumers spent $360 billion at online retailers, with Amazon accounting for a whopping $150 billion of that. In other words, almost 50 cents of every ecommerce dollar goes to Amazon. Amazon is hard to beat on price, selection, and convenience. So what ecommerce opportunities are left for startups? This is a question my fund looks at very carefully, since we’ve been focused on high-potential ecommerce plays.

Moby is selling a variety of musical equipment and gear he's used throughout his career to raise money for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. "This is the equipment I’ve used to make all my records," Moby said. "I have so much equipment and almost all of it has profound sentimental value to me. But rather than keep it all in storage, I want to sell it for a good cause."

Linkin Park enthusiasts will soon be able to buy nearly 200 pieces of gear used by the band throughout its 17-year career. The items include the keytar featured in the “What I’ve Done” music video to a theremin used by Mike Shinoda. All gear will be on sale at Techno Empire’s Reverb.com store starting Wednesday (April 4). Other key pieces of equipment going up for sale are the Amplivox S602M Megaphone Brad Delson used on tour in 2011 and a sticker-covered road case.

Reverb.com, the leading online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling music gear, has hired Gérard Danjou - former Executive Vice President of Global Business Development at Gibson Brands, Inc - to drive growth of Reverb in EMEA and APAC. Over the past two years, Reverb buyers, sellers, orders, and sales outside the U.S. have grown by over 500 percent and as Global Operations Director, Danjou will cultivate continued international growth and success.

David Kalt is the founder of Reverb.com, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear, and the owner of the Chicago Music Exchange, a vintage guitar store in Chicago. He also co-founded and was the former CEO of online broker optionsXpress.

We caught up with Reverb.com's founder and CEO, David Kalt, after this year's NAMM Show, where he was the NAMM Young Professionals keynote speaker. What follows is a great stand-in for those who could not make it to this year's keynote, as well as an exceptional continuation for those who were able to attend.

Starting in 1961, amidst the rising popularity of solidbody and thinline guitars, Gibson doubled down on its lineup of larger-sized hollowbodies with a series of artist models. First came the Johnny Smith and Barney Kessel models in 1961, followed by the Tal Farlow signature in ’62. A few years later, this artist line expanded with the launch of two Trini Lopez models: the Standard and the Deluxe.

Here at Reverb, we see thousands upon thousands of pedals and effects sell through our platform every year. From boutique shops and independent builders offering small-batch stompboxes to impassioned players simply selling a pedal they aren’t using anymore, we see an incredibly diverse cross-section of pedal commerce that incorporates just about every make and model available to today’s discerning guitarists. This constant flow of sales gives us an awful lot of data to explore and a unique vantage from which to examine various subsections of the market.

Establishing an international presence is an important milestone for many growth-stage companies — and an important one to get right, at that. We asked seven Chicago tech companies about the most important things they’ve learned in building their international teams, and how global footprints have helped shape their company cultures.

Nasdaq talks with Chicago Innovation Award winner and founder of Reverb, David Kalt about the marketplace for musicians.

Which Chicago-area companies do best by their employees? Here's the answer. Every year since 2008, Crain's Chicago Business has highlighted the local companies rated highest by their employees. In a wide-ranging questionnaire, we ask about everything from workplace comforts to benefits and culture. This project has proved so popular that this year we expanded our list of honorees to the 100 top scorers. The 2018 Best Places to Work finalists are presented here, in alphabetical order.

It's hard to build an online marketplace when the same products can be found just as easily on Amazon and eBay. But Reverb has found success in fine-tuning the way it handles data and payments. Reverb sprang forth in 2013 from a website inspired by a Chicago-based music equipment dealership and is now a fast-growing e-commerce operation that's attracted $47 million in investor capital.

If you came of age in the 1990s, you probably remember the first few Silverchair records as memorable touchstones of Australian music. And if now, 20 years later, you’re thinking about getting your own band back together – of rediscovering the chunky guitar tones you used to bash out in the garage – we’ve got some good news. Chris Joannou, one-third of Newcastle’s most famous musical export, is selling some of the instruments he collected over two decades playing bass in the band.

When Henry Brown was in his 20s and living in Chicago, he followed his dream of becoming a rock star and didn't bother with a back up plan. When the recession hit in 2008 and even jobs waiting tables between gigs were hard to come by, reality set in. So he took his prized possession — an old 1969 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Gold Top guitar he had bought for $1300 — and listed it on eBay. It sold for $2500.

Get ready, folks. We’re only three weeks out from our annual Tech Madness bracket reveal event. Each year, the Chicago Inno team hosts a reader-driven bracket competition in the spirit of March Madness to drive awareness and excitement for Chicago’s startup ecosystem.

In the past five years, Reverb.com has become one of the world’s largest music gear websites, serving as a marketplace for musicians to buy and sell used, vintage, and new music gear online. One of the driving forces behind their success is art director Lynette Sage. She works with teams across all areas of the company to develop, oversee, and implement a wide range of projects — from brand identity, to marketing campaigns, to web design and visual assets.

Eat your own dog food. Drink your own champagne. Whatever phrase you prefer, the idea is the same: Nothing shows a company’s confidence in its product like using it in-house. This is especially important in tech where companies are often asked what separates their app or software from a laundry list of competitors. To learn more about the benefits of “dogfooding,” which is totally a real term, we spoke to employees at seven Chicago tech companies who are avid users of the software and apps they build.

Reverb.com — the online marketplace for buying, selling, and learning about music gear — and Switchfoot announced that The Official Switchfoot Reverb Shop will launch on Wednesday, February 7. The shop will feature guitars, bass guitars, drums, effects pedals, and more used by the Grammy-winning alternative rock band.

Music Makers was like a lot of small-town music stores when it first opened in 2001. Owner Dave Plunk was committed to serving his Galesburg, Illinois community of around 30,000 with quality products, fair prices, and attentive service. And it was working. Then in 2004, Maytag, the area's largest employer, packed its refrigerator factory and thousands of jobs off to Mexico. With nothing on the appliance giant's scale to replace it, Galesburg suffered, and Music Makers, still located on Main Street, has struggled even as competitors, one by one, slipped from the scene.

For your Valentine's Day-hating brother: February 14th might not be his favorite holiday. OK, he hates it—but if you really can't skip over your brother when shopping for love-themed goodies, go subtle but fun with these white ebony heart-shaped guitar picks. Since he has a knack for losing things anyway, he'll have to keep 'em in case the urge to perform Green Day comes over him and he needs to pick away.

In today's Made in Chicago, we focus on Reverb.com, a Roscoe Village-based company that is a marketplace for musicians. CEO David Kalt joins us with his team to teach our anchors how to play a new instrument.

We’re an online marketplace where people buy and sell guitars, drums and other music gear. I appear in our YouTube videos, demonstrating music instruments and gear, giving guitar lessons and discussing music theory. I also teach users how to replicate or change artists’ tones. In other videos, I interview musicians, usually about one of their songs or their gear. The music industry can be tough, and for a musician like me, this is a good way to earn a steady paycheck and stay close to my art.

Originally launched in 2013, Reverb has grown at a staggering rate to become the go-to platform for buying and selling gear online – not just for musicians, but for stores and other vendors too. Looking to do the same for the burgeoning worldwide vinyl market, the company launched Reverb LP at the tail-end of 2017.

Reverb.com — the online marketplace for buying, selling, and learning about music gear recently announced that its new record marketplace Reverb LP is now in open beta. The website will offer record stores, collectors, and music fans an easier and more cost-efficient option for buying and selling records and other physical music formats online.

Reverb is an online marketplace that revolutionized how people buy and sell instruments. Now, with the launch of Reverb LP, they're looking to do the same for Vinyl.

The Women’s International Music Network (the WiMN) has announced that Melissa Etheridge and The B-52s band members Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson will be honored at the sixth annual She Rocks Awards on Friday, January 26, 2018, during the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.

Today, L.A.’s Techno Empire is selling recording equipment from The Sound Factory studio on music gear marketplace Reverb.com. The iconic L.A. studio, which has been the center of many classic recordings since the late ‘60s, will remain active while also giving artists, engineers, fans, and more the opportunity to own a piece of recording history.