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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

She has been named Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence (2016), the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year award (2015), the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year award (2014), and Enterprising Women’s Enterprising Woman of the Year award (2013).

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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. VCAP© finalists will also be invited to present at Marathon’s 7th Annual DealMakers’ Summit July 23rd and 24th at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago.

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Ofir Eyal Bar Simplifies Real Estate Investing For Newbies

YoungUpstarts

The global financial crisis served as a wake-up call to investors: few investments are immune to panicked selling activity. As a case in point, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta published a graphic indicating that stock prices plunged 50% from the high to low between October 2007-March 2009. Real estate prices tend to rise over time.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I learned long ago at the University of Chicago where I got my MBA that investors tend to want to invest when markets become over-valued and sell when they become undervalued.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine. Network for Good, Global Giving, Mission Fish (behind ebay’s GivingWorks). Some people in Chicago were starting a company that rhymes with “coupon” at the time. We were seeing this movement towards causes on Facebook and elsewhere.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

From Chicago’s Booth School of Business : The only two serial entrepreneurs in Chicago who can answer those questions have agreed to share what they know with students at Chicago Booth. via Chicago Booth News – Teaching the Secrets of Successful Serial Entrepreneurship.

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The 10 Best Brick-And-Mortar Store Experiences

YoungUpstarts

Macy’s also has a notable store in downtown Chicago, which it took over from Marshall Fields in 2007. Niketown is the retail name for global athletic brand Nike, and their stores have been popping up around the world since the first opened in 1990 in downtown Portland, Ore. Build-A-Bear.