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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Then Satish Tripathi from Skokie, Illinois, discussed Biomedical Consulting International Inc. , I like these two strategies.

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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. Freed received the first scholarship created from a sustainable-business model by the collaboration of EALgreen, WW Grainger, Inc. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. For example, my firm at the time, Continental Illinois Venture Corporation, the wholly owned SBIC of Chicago’s Continental Bank, had many successful investments.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

“The Internet is the first place most people turn to find information and learn virtually anything, but there’s no sense of organization — you have to stumble through, often running into dead ends along the way,” says Kris Chinosorn, who started MentorMob with fellow University of Illinois graduate and co-founder Vince Leung. “At

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Saving Universities From Extinction No Easy Task

YoungUpstarts

Goldberg, founder of ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. and co-author of “ A Whole New Engineer ” . The business model is ready for a fall. Goldberg, Founder of ThreeJoy Associates, Inc., by David E. Universities are as outmoded as buggy whips.

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Business Leader Behind a National Auto Repair Franchise’ Growth In Just a Short Time Span

Hearpreneur

In 1990, Mr. Moran, his wife and his youngest daughter Barb founded Moran Industries and expanded the business model to include franchised repair facilities with the acquisition of Mr. Transmission. How did you come up with your business name? Moran is the family name of our co-founders Dennis Moran and Barbara Moran Goodrich.