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UIC Liautaud Alum’s Tech Company Named “Moxie Award Finalist for Startup of the Year”

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... read more

The REAL Life of an Entrepreneur: The French Model Conjecture

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... read more

Alumni Profile: Dominic Blank, MBA 2012

Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Strategy Pre-Degree Industry/Field of Work: IT & Telecommunications Post-Degree Industry/Field of Work: Information Technology & Services Undergraduate Degree: Business Administration Undergraduate Institution: Berlin School of Economics and Law Current Employer: savvo digital sommelier solutions LLC Why did you return to school to obtain your Graduate Business Degree? I worked for Siemens AG, which is a very large corporation with almost half a... read more

Concept2Venture and ThirtyFiveK: A Semester Review

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... read more

UIC Liautaud | MBA Mock Class in Chicago this Saturday

How do you experience business school before enrolling? To provide a sense of what to expect, UIC Liautaud is hosting an MBA mock class this Saturday, October 20, at 9:30 AM. The class will feature a lecture by Professor Rod Shrader titled, “Bringing New Technology to Market.” Following his lecture, there will be an overview of the UIC Liautaud Technology Ventures program. An introduction to Tech Ventures is the perfect peek into what makes UIC Liautaud so unique. As part of a large university,... read more

October Info Sessions, Live Webinar, Mock Classes & More

  UIC Liautaud is preparing business graduate school students for a world marked by continuous change, with academic programs that focus on innovation, entrepreneurship and a multidisciplinary approach. Housed inside a major research university in the heart of Chicago’s thriving business community, our graduate degrees are all about fresh ideas, entrepreneurial savvy, positive social impact, innovative leadership and a diverse and collaborative student body— one that forms a lifelong... read more

Tech Ventures: A Look Back on This Summer's Coursework

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... read more

Alumni Profile: Anna Lisa Somera, MBA/MPH 2006

Anna Lisa Somera MBA/MPH 2006 Concentration: Entrepreneurship Pre-Degree Industry/Field of Work: Biotechnology Post-Degree Industry/Field of Work: Venture Capital and Consulting Undergraduate Degree: BS Biology and Anthropology, MS Cellular Biology Undergraduate Institution: Loyola University (undergrad), Rush University (grad) Current Employer: Independent consultant to several life science start-up companies and venture capital firms Why did you return to school to obtain your Graduate... read more

First Day of Tech Ventures

On Tuesday, I attended my first lecture in the three-semester course called Tech Ventures. My first impressions are as follows:
  • This class will be truly inspiring. While the first semester of class is mostly theory and background infomation on new "hi-tech" ventures, the next two semesters are spent doing something truly real: Real in the sense that you are constructing a real business plan that could really work and really become a company.
  • With that being said, not all of the student run...
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Student Ambassador Spotlight: Jocelyn Mohr, MBA Candidate 2012

Jocelyn Mohr MBA Candidate 2012 Part-time student
  • Concentration(s): Marketing and Entrepreneurship
  • Industry/ Field of work: Marketing
  • Undergraduate degree in: BFA Interior Architecture
  • Undergraduate School: Columbia College Chicago
  • Career Goal: to be a business owner, of what I’m not sure yet. The sky is the limit!
  • Organizations involved with: Net Impact, GMARK
  • Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jmohr4
Q & A with Jocelyn...
  • What prompted you to return to school to achieve your MBA? I have...
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