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Google Announces Partnership With Startup Weekend

Google has just announced a partnership with Startup Weekend — a global organization committed to promoting real entrepreneurship in local communities. Startup Weekend holds 54-hour startup events that bring together.

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Free Resources for Chicago Startups

I work at the IJ Clinic on Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit that teams up with University of Chicago Law School students to provide free legal assistance, workshops, and advocacy to entrepreneurs..

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CEO Sundays: How Cleaning Dumpsters Lead Me to the Web; Lessons from My First Business

  Written by Kris Petersen, CEO and founder of DealsGoRound    The articles I’ve read about entrepreneurs often mention the person’s first childhood business. They sold candy out of their locker, shoveled.

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CEO Sundays: How To Make An Old Business New Again

Written by Kevin Leland, Co-founder of Pawngo Here at Lightbankwe’re enamored with any business that uses technology to completely upend some old school industry. We did it with freight —.

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Watch Out World “We Are Built In Chicago”

World, I would like to introduce you to Chicago–your sexy, new and exciting entrepreneurial hub. Chicago has been exploding with entrepreneurial activity! The Built In Chicago Launch Party was the kickoff.

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Startups Seeking Advertisers: Tips for the “Road Less Traveled”

          Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  -Robert Frost First.

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Chicago Nonprofit Moneythink Ignites Support for Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship Education

On May 12, Chicago-based nonprofit Moneythink is hosting an event to gain support for its mission to train talented, dedicated college students to teach high school students in underserved neighborhoods.

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Why Inspirational Speaker-Entrepreneurs Are So Disappointing

What is it that makes a charismatic leader? Is it his or her message, or its delivery? Or is it something else, perhaps the inclination of the audience to believe.

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On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker’s Manifesto

FG Reader, whoever you are, this is not another sardonic article from Jason Rowley. Consider it a mini manifesto. I want you to reclaim yourself.

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Schumpeter’s Nightmare

Joseph Schumpeter, 20th-century Austrian economist and progenitor of the notion of “creative destruction”, noted in a 1942 paper that “the function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern.

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