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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, 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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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by
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...
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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, October 16, 2012 by
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,...
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Monday, October 8, 2012 by
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...
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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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Friday, July 20, 2012 by
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...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 by
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...
Thursday, March 15, 2012 by
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
- What prompted you to return to school to achieve your MBA? I have...
