Entrepreneurship
Friday, May 5, 2017 by
Daniel Natsagdorj paid his way through UIC’s entrepreneurship
program in part by working long weekend hours as a server at a
River North sushi restaurant. When he enrolled at UIC, Daniel had
nearly a decade of food service experience, so the server work was
nothing new. But when he started the job, the sharing economy was
relatively new; Uber had recently arrived in Chicago. It got Daniel
thinking about how restaurants managed their delivery drivers. “In
all my years of working at restaurants,...
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Friday, August 5, 2016 by
The Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Chicagoland
Chamber of Commerce plays a key role in the resources that the
Chamber of Commerce offers business and entrepreneurs, resources
that include business planning, market research, assistance dealing
with local governments, and much more. This fall, Liautaud students
have the opportunity to explore these resources in MBA 590 -
Foundations in Entrepreneurship, an 8-week course led by Florence
Hardy, Director of the Illinois SBDC at the...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 by
When it comes to launching ventures, the Startup Challenge goes
well beyond the walls of UIC Business, inviting everyone in the UIC
community to bring their best venture concepts to the table. The
Startup Challenge is an annual program of the Institute for
Entrepreneurial Studies, and though it has evolved in name and
format over the last 11 years, the mission has remained the same:
to turn ideas into viable businesses. This year, 56 teams took part
in IES’s series of seminars, workshops,...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 by
The faculty of the Professional Development Program at UIC Business
are here to support all UIC students, whatever their area of
specialization. We offer the soft skills that help them stand out
among professionals in their fields. Self-awareness, self-control,
the ability to work in a team; these elements of professionalism
raise students above their peers both in job searches and in the
workforce. Our BA 100 and BA 220 Professional Development classes
are required for freshmen and sophomores...
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Thursday, February 4, 2016 by
Text by Abhinaya Konduru. UIC Business students interested in
Chicago’s startup community can't afford to miss Campus 1871, which
takes place April 8-10 in downtown Chicago. The Campus 1871
application is due Sunday, February 14th. What is 1871? 1871 is a
nonprofit tech incubator on the 12th floor of the Merchandise Mart.
The name comes from the year of the Great Chicago Fire, though not
from the fire itself. “It’s about what happened next,” says 1871’s
website, “a remarkable moment when the...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by
Shang Wu: I recently met Chris Kearney at UIC Career Fair.
He started his own company after graduating from UIC with a
bachelor degree in marketing. As a UIC MBA student with a marketing
concentration, I took a deep interest in his story, which I think
will be a great inspiration for all UIC students. Shang Wu:
You graduated from UIC. Can you describe your life as a student at
UIC? Chris Kearney: I transferred to UIC as a junior from the
College or DuPage and JJC, and like many transfer...
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Friday, July 10, 2015 by
Thank you to Sarah Agamah, Brett Czekaj, and Mackenzie Magnus for
providing this blog post about your experience in Social
Entrepreneurship 594. For those interested in entrepreneurship we
highly recommend to take a closer look at this popular UIC Liautaud
course within the Entrepreneurship concentration. During
the Spring 2015 semester, students in Professor Maija Renko’s
Social Entrepreneurship course were given the unique opportunity to
tackle real problems in the social enterprise space. By...
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Monday, March 10, 2014 by
Interested in
advertising? This Wednesday, March 12, GMARK (UIC Graduate
Marketing Association) will be visiting Leo Burnett, located
at 35 West Wacker Drive. Catherine Yi, UIC alumni and Content
Manager on the P&G account at Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide, will
be hosting the GMARK tour. Join us as we learn more about the field
of advertising and the various departments at Leo Burnett. Also,
Leo Burnett's internship application is due March 31; get...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014 by
Philippe Kirschey
Full-time MBA Candidate 2015, Entrepreneurship and
Management Undergraduate
Degree: Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Bergische University of Wuppertal,
Germany Career goal: President
of CENTA Antriebe Kirschey GmbH
Organizations involved with: MBAA, Innovation Incubator
UIC
Liautaud recently partnered with UIC’s Office of Technology
Management and IllinoisVENTURES to offer...
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Friday, December 20, 2013 by
If you’re familiar with the show Shark Tank, you can get an idea of
what it was like at the 2013 UIC Concept2Ventures (C2V) Business
Plan Competition on December 16-17. The C2V Challenge is an
opportunity to pitch a business idea win cash prizes. A total of
$10,000 was awarded to winning teams. Teams are placed into
different tracks to present to a panel of distinguished judges. Our
judges include serial entrepreneurs, industry professionals, and
investors. One winner from each track advances to...
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Monday, October 7, 2013 by
The UIC Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies invites the UIC
community to participate in the 2013 Concept2Venture (C2V)
Challenge. The C2V Challenge is open to anyone in the UIC community
– students, postdocs, alumni, faculty and staff. If you have an
idea for a new business venture, join the 2013 C2V Challenge for
your chance to win cash and prizes! A total of $10,000 will be
awarded to winning teams. 2013 C2V CHALLENGE LAUNCH PARTY:
Today, October 7, from 4:30-6:00pm UIC Student Center...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 by
SEPTEMBER 30 - The University of Illinois at Chicago College of
Business Administration today announced a new university-based
entrepreneurship program to support veterans returning to the
Chicago area who want to lead new or existing business ventures. A
pilot program will be run in spring 2014, and the free, non-degree,
certificate program, called Veterans2Ventures, will launch next
fall. “While there are many resources available to returning
veterans, there is no university-based...
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Monday, May 20, 2013 by
Matt Gorniak, MBA 2002 Alum, is Co-Founder and COO of G2 Crowd, a
new tech company that was named as a finalist of the “Moxie Award
for Startup of the Year” this week presented by Built in Chicago
and New World Ventures which gathers Chicago’s most innovative
digital entrepreneurs. G2 Crowd is a tech startup that is directly
competing with the well-known Gartner Magic Quadrants that rely on
analysts and market research to rate a limited group of software
companies. G2 Crowd has been featured in...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 by
Rebecca Meyer with her MBA teammates, Tom and Nilay, and their
clients from the Collaborative Group. See more photos from this
semester's MBA Social Entrepreneurship (ENTR 594) course by
clicking here. Business school is not just preparation for the
corporate world anymore. It was in Dr. Renko’s Social
Entrepreneurship class where this was made evident. Beginning
January, class teams were partnered with local social ventures to
begin a semester long project. The assignment was simple:
each...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 by
I’ve been asked a lot lately by my friends in corporate America
what it’s like to be an entrepreneur. Here’s what I say to them:
Entrepreneurship is a beautiful French model whose name you cannot
spell correctly (that’s right, we’ve all had trouble spelling it).
She excites you. You want to go on dates with her, but she’ll make
you work for it. Just when you think you’ve made progress with her,
you find out she’s dating three other men more handsome and
successful than you. She keeps you up at...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012 by
This fall semester seems like such a whirlwind looking back on my
Technology Ventures experience. Tony Mammana-Lupo, Alex Duchak and
I formed a business (ThirtyFiveK), legally incorporated it,
licensed a technology for use from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in
Tennessee, recruited the inventor of our technology to be one of
our company’s founding members, worked day and night, and
sacrificed for our company. We kicked off the business plan
competition circuit with UIC’s Concept2Venture...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 by
The 8th Annual College of Business Administration’s Concept2Venture
(C2V) Business Plan Competition helps undergraduate and graduate
student teams from any of UIC's 15 colleges turn ideas into real
businesses. The event provides students with an opportunity to
pitch their business plans to potential investors and compete for
awards exceeding $10,000 cash for their business ideas, plus
in-kind service. This year's event welcomes a full lineup of guest
speakers including: Cayse Llorens of Celeb...
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Friday, November 9, 2012 by
Net Impact recently had its kick off event for the fall of 2012. We
were very pleased and excited to have the founder of Distant
Village come and speak to us about sustainable business practices
here in Chicago. Rich Cohen is the founder of Distant
Village. It is a company that makes sustainable packaging for a
wide variety of products-from baby sheets to chocolates. All
products are made of recyclable materials and are produced with
artisans that are paid fair trade wages. It was interesting...
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Monday, October 15, 2012 by
There may be some of you out there who don’t know what 1871 is.
There may also be UIC Liautaud students who don’t know what
Innovation Incubator is. If this is the case, well you are most
certainly reading the right blog. For any Liautaud student who is
interested in entrepreneurship, innovation, currently has their own
start-up, wants to begin their own start-up, or is looking for
people to collaborate with on their perspective business ideas,
Innovation Incubator is the place for you. We seek...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012 by
As my summer comes to a close, I can’t help but think what an
amazing and overwhelming profound learning experience that I have
been given this summer with the Technology Ventures Program. I
don’t understand why more students aren’t banging down the door to
be a part of this program. For those of you who don’t know, Tech
Ventures is a three-part course series that starts in the summer.
During the summer semester, you learn how to write a business plan
and how to work with venture capitalists and...
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