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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. In 2021, EAL helped corporate partners keep 5,056 mt of products out of landfills. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. and North Park University. Raising sponsorship funds?

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Top 3 Startup Winner: Happenstance

The Startup Magazine

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. If you’re unfamiliar, the museum is exactly what the name suggests: a venue that showcases amputation kits, ancient surgical tools and more. Co-Founder/CTO : Lewis Gardner.

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Tianyi Joe Zhu, Entrepreneur and Startup Advocate

The Startup Magazine

So read on and be inspired… At 30 Years of Age, Tianyi Joe Zhu, Chicago Entrepreneur, Named Amongst the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business. 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.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market. What is your competitive advantage?

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. Lil Wayne, Swag Surfin.

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

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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