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| Healthcare Issues For Entrepreneurs |
Panel:
Alex Morozov, Director - Global Healthcare Equity Research at Morningstar
Daniel Yunker, CEO, Land of Lincoln Heath, Inc.
Laura Minzer, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
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4/15/13 |
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| Financing Your Deals |
Panel: Joseph R. Katcha, Principal, High Street Capital – Private Equity; Ron Kirschner, M.D., MBA, President, Heartland Angels – Venture Capital; Mark Gross, Senior Advisor, Wincreek Financial – Commercial Real Estate Bridge Loans; Robert McMillan, Jr., President, Freeman Funding Solutions – Factoring, |
3/18/13 |
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| How to Buy or Sell a Business: Panel presents information about key considerations. |
Panel: Pat Grandle, Broker; Colleen Ryan, Banker; Ellen Huxtable, Biz Consultant; John Swanson, Private Equity. |
2/18/13 |
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Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks
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Kellogg professor Tim Calkins |
1/21/13 |
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| Business Success through Social Networking: The Foiled Cupcakes Story |
Serial entrepreneur Mari Luangrath |
12/17/12 |
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| Roasting Coffee & Employing Ex-Cons: The Story of Second Chance Coffee |
Pete Leonard, President and Co-Founder |
11/19/12 |
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| Learn From Founder of Successful Federally-Funded Research Company |
Don Yuhas, Owner, Industrial Measurement Systems Inc |
10/15/12 |
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The Pampered Chef Story: From Home Basement to Berkshire Hathaway
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Doris Christopher, Founder of Pampered Chef |
9/17/12 |
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| What I Learned From Starting Three Businesses and Teaching Entrepreneurs |
Jim Vahle, Serial Entrepreneur and Instructor of Entrepreneurship and Management at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management |
8/20/12 |
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A Capitalism For The People: Recapturing The Lost Genius Of American Prosperity
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Professor Luigi Zingales of the Chicago Booth School of Business |
7/16/12 |
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| Discovering Your Memory Power: Training Your Memory and Mind |
Tom Weber, Vice President of Sales & Consulting, Freedom Personal Development |
6/18/12 |
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| Bank Financing Today -- What's New and What Has Not Changed |
Presentation by banking panelists. |
5/21/12 |
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| Restaurant.com -- The Challenges of Daily Deal Couponing in Dining |
Christopher Krohn, President and Chief Marketing Officer, Restaurant.com |
4/16/12 |
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| What Every Business Owner and Manager Should Know About Employment Law |
Brian LaFratta, an experienced employment attorney and litigator with Huck Bouma, Wheaton, Illinois. |
3/19/12 |
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| Using Social Media to Promote Yourself and Your Business |
Bruce Bixler teaches courses on LinkedIn and social media at community colleges and conducts workshops on LinkedIn and Twitter. |
2/20/12 |
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| Get a Grip on Your Business |
Dan Wallace, Tailwind Discovery Group |
1/17/12 |
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| The Stories of Radio Flyer and Eddie Z's Blinds & Draper |
Bob Pasin and Jimmy Zakoor - two entrepreneurial businesses owners. |
12/19/11 |
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| It's Almost Like Using "The Force": Motivating Customer Behavior |
Bill Burnett -a partner at Tailwind Discovery Group |
11/21/11 |
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| From Lab to Market: Secrets of Making Money from Tech Transfer |
Neil Kane |
10/17/11 |
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| Cloud Computing: Transforming the Way Business Works |
Rick Kostopoulos, Founder and President of NewGen Business Solutions |
9/19/11 |
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| Preparing Your Business For Sale: How to Get Top Dollar |
Karin O'Connor, President, Perimeter Advisors |
8/15/11 |
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| To Understand Entrepreneurs, You Need to Understand Their DNA |
Joe Abraham, Author and Founder of BOSI |
7/18/11 |
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| Top Small Business Workplaces |
Featuring two Chicago area finalists in Inc. magazines's Top Small Company Workplaces competition |
6/20/11 |
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| Starting and Building a
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John Swanson (Chicago Booth '98), co-founder of Source Tech Medical |
5/16/11 |
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| How Do I Get a Business Loan Today? |
David Enquist, President of Business Lending Solutions; Mick O'Rourke, CEO of Signature Bank; and Thomas Stamborski, President of Liquid Capital of Illinois |
4/18/11 |
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| The Marriage of Marketing and Profits: How to Make It Work |
Jim Kendall, business columnist, Daily Herald newspaper |
3/21/11 |
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| Understanding the Mystery of Innovation |
Praveen Gupta |
2/21/11 |
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| Why We "Choke" Under Pressure - and How to Avoid It |
Sian Beilock, author of "Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have to |
1/17/11 |
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| The Entrepreneur's Guide to Leveraging Stakeholders |
Hamid (Hank) Noorani |
12/20/10 |
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| Venture Capital and Angel Investor Funding |
Frank D. Ballantine of Reed Smith law firm and a panel of experienced
Venture Capital representatives: Sam Guren, Managing Director, Hyde Park Angels;
Scott Button, Managing Director, Venture Investors LLC; Laura Pearl, Ceres Ventures;
James Pavlik, Principal, Baird Venture Partners |
11/15/10 |
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| The Key to Hiring and Promoting the Best |
John Marquart |
10/18/10 |
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| Reading the Hidden Communications Around You |
Anne Beall |
9/27/10 |
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| The Art and Science of Selling Through Relationships |
Richard Abraham |
9/20/10 |
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| Finding the Inner Resources to Achieve Success Through Meditation |
Michael Ribet, Managing Director of Focus Capital Advisors, who has
practiced meditation for 40 years and taught meditation techniques worldwide. |
8/16/10 |
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| Secrets to Generating Revenue from Your Website |
Thom Disch, Founder & CEO of Internet-Engine. |
7/19/10 |
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