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Female Founder Interview – Olga Camargo Leads Latinas Fintech Advisory

The Startup Magazine

University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Business Administration Alumni Leadership Academy Inductee. Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2010 Emerging Leaders Program Selection. Northeastern Illinois University Foundation Board. Chicago’s 1871 Chicago’s Technology and IHCC’s LatinX Incubator Selection. Finding capital?

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. What does a social enterprise look like?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Next Chris Ruder from Chicago, Illinois, pitched Spikeball , a new volleyball-esque game that is being played at camps and college campuses. I like these two strategies.

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Attention: Female Founders on the Rise

The Startup Magazine

This implies a lack fundamental skills, including leadership and confidence to grow a business and hire multiple employees. There are significant global markets for fashion, art and architecture, food manufacturing and craft-making markets. The data from Table 1 implies women-owned businesses create on average 0.8 Race/Ethnicity. #

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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. Getting visibility?

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Interns go from a high school robotics team toward a career in robotics

The Startup Magazine

Entrepreneur Glenn Luckinbill , CEO of Swarm Robotix in Oswego, Illinois, had a great idea: a robot that would help move shipping containers more efficiently and effectively in ports and rail facilities. How was he going to find, hire, and train a team to realize his idea in such a short timeline? But there was a problem.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. In her role, Lopez is responsible for providing vision and leadership to the diversity, inclusion, and equity program across Cision’s global organization.