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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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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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Tianyi Joe Zhu, Entrepreneur and Startup Advocate

The Startup Magazine

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. He got his start in entrepreneurship when he was in college, where he attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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Attention: Female Founders on the Rise

The Startup Magazine

These small groups in confidential settings help dynamic female founders collectively ask questions for feedback to solve difficult issues when growing revenue. There are significant global markets for fashion, art and architecture, food manufacturing and craft-making markets. Expand exporting opportunities for woman owned businesses.

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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 is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. and North Park University. TSM: Fantastic!

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and was a golf instructor at Club Med in Mexico and the Bahamas. Panelists: Jeff Kupietzky MBA 98, CEO, Oversee.net.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. We have a partnership on anti-counterfeit security inks, which can address the global $500B counterfeit goods problem. We collaborated at the Los Alamos National Lab, the National Renewable Energy Lab, and University of Illinois.