Sep
30

The Business Ledger's Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards

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Amy Bretz, the Coleman Center's Membership Services Coordinator, discusses her experience at last week's Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards' presentations in Wheaton, IL.  

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Sep
29

Coleman Center Client Seeking Experts and Thought-leaders on the Subject of Entrepreneurship

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Jake Elster, a Coleman Center client, is exploring how entrepreneurs learn to identify and exploit opportunities in the marketplace for his master’s thesis. 

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Sep
28

SocialDevCamp Chicago's Unconference

Tags: Chicago, conferences, IIT

SocialDevCamp Chicago is an unconference for social application and platform developers, evangelists, and enthusiasts.  SocialDevCamp Chicago is for anyone passionate about the development and implementation of social applications, platforms, APIs, mobile, identity management, and new media. 

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Sep
28

Coleman Center Brown Bag Info Sessions

Tags: blueprint, Coleman Center, Launch DePaul

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend an upcoming Coleman Center information session.

Learn about Blueprint, a unique program for student-entrepreneurs across all majors, and Launch DePaul, an annual new venture competition. Also discover programs available to business owners throughout Chicago.

You're welcome to bring lunch with you.

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Sep
28

Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO) Upcoming Conference

Tags: CEO, conferences, students

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Sep
28

Big Question: How to Fund Your Venture?

Tags: Coleman Center, funding, venture capital

Coleman Center Executive Director, Raman Chadha, was quoted in USA Today in an article about different venture fundraising techniques.

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Sep
28

Business Owners are the Happiest Americans

Tags: change, healthcare, insurance

Yahoo! Finance says business owners tend to have better physical and emotional health, but owners still have to consider the health of their employees. There will be some employee health insurance changes coming up in 2010.

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Sep
28

DePaul Kellstadt Marketing Center's Upcoming Seminars

Tags: Kellstadt, marketing, Seminar

The DePaul Kellstadt Marketing Center has a variety of upcoming seminars and workshops to assist business owners and other marketing professionals.

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Sep
22

The Union of Town and Gown

Tags: growth, roundtables, small business

Entrepreneur Magazine profiles the Coleman Center and its role within the DePaul and Chicagoland business owner communities. 

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Sep
22

DePaul Ranked Among The Nation’s Top 10 Universities For Entrepreneurship Education

Tags: award, DePaul, students

DePaul University is one of the country’s 10 best academic institutions for entrepreneurship education, according to the annual rankings issued by Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review. DePaul’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, which manages education and outreach programs designed to stimulate the start-up and growth of entrepreneurial firms, also was praised by the magazine for fostering entrepreneurship in Chicago, thus helping the local economy. 

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Sep
21

Reminder: Blueprint Information Session Tomorrow

Tags: blueprint, Information Session, students

DePaul students are invited to join us for an informal session to learn more about Blueprint. 

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Sep
21

Coleman Center's Executive Director Interviewed in Crain's Video

Tags: small business, stimulus, video

The federal stimulus is getting credit for saving the U.S. economy from ruin-but has it helped entrepreneurs? Crain's talks to one local business owner who got government help and consult an expert on what entrepreneurs can expect from the stimulus-if anything.

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Sep
21

Blueprint Mentor Highlighted in Soho Magazine

Tags: blueprint, Mentors, small business

Steve Johns, a Blueprint mentor, was highlighted in Soho Magazine. He is the founder of Second Wave Music & Hitmaker.com.

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Sep
21

Facets of Entrepreneurship

Tags: entrepreneurship, small business

Advisory board member, Al Herbach, questions whether all small business owners are entrepreneurs in his blog entitled The Advisor.

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Sep
16

Movers and Changers - Business Plan Competition

Tags: award, business plans, competitions

NYSE and mtvU have set out on a nationwide search to find the most promising young entrepreneurs in college right now. Enter for a chance to win $25,000.

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Sep
14

Debate on Chicago's Technology Future

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The Coleman Center is proud to be a partner of the Illinois Technology Association (ITA) and support Chicago’s leadership in the technology community.
 

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Sep
14

Pros and Cons to Having a Job While Starting a Business

Tags: entrepreneurship, jobs, startups

Becca Berkenstadt, Marketing Intern, discusses the positives and negatives to having a job while starting a business.

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Sep
11

4th Annual SmartBet Charity Poker Tournament

Tags: charity, technology entrepreneurship

The Coleman Center invites you to support Chicago youth educational programs by attending or sponsoring the 4th Annual SmartBet Charity Poker Tournament. In addition to helping kids around Chicago, you’ll connect with technology and entrepreneurial business leaders.

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Sep
10

VOKAL Interactive, LLC Career Opportunities

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Blueprint member, Reid Lappin, owns a company called VOKAL Interactive and they are looking for candidates for the following open positions: Entry-level Developer and Business Analyst/Project Manager.

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Sep
08

Peer Roundtable Open Houses & Information Sessions

Tags: business owners, roundtables

Are you looking for a trusted sounding board of experienced business owners you can discuss your business' challenges with?  Do you have business goals and objectives you need to make progress toward? If so, the Coleman Center's Peer Roundtables may be a great opportunity to take advantage of. 

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Sep
08

Blueprint 2.0 - Bigger and Better

Tags: blueprint, campus activities, Coleman Center, consulting, students

April Lane, Associate Director at the Center, announces new additions to the Blueprint student advising program.

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Sep
08

Finding Health Care Business Ideas

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A recent article in American Medical News discusses how health care providers can find small business ideas from their patients.

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Sep
04

Coleman Center Welcomes New Members

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Please join the Coleman Center in welcoming recent additions to the Coleman Center Membership Program.

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Sep
03

Previous Launch DePaul Winner Enters Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit Market

Tags: advertising, Launch DePaul

Commuter Advertising, 2008 Launch DePaul Winner, is getting noticed for its entry into Champaign-Urbana's Mass Transit District.

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Sep
03

Blueprint Alum Teaching DePaul's New Twitter Course

Tags: Alumni, blueprint, DePaul, social media, twitter

Blueprint Alum Craig Kanalley (CMN '09) of Breaking Tweets will teach what is believed to be the first college-level journalism course focused on Twitter and its applications. 

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Sep
02

"The ROI of Great Workplaces" Conference

Tags: conferences, culture, small business

This conference, presented by Winning Workplaces, will be held October 1 & 2. 

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Sep
02

Coleman Center Member's Fair Trade Businesses Featured

Tags: blueprint, fair trade, members, students

Jennifer Moran, Coleman Center member and Blueprint student, is featured in a recent Kenosha News article for her businesses that embrace fair trade principals.  

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Sep
01

Big Banks & Small Businesses

Tags: banking, economy, loans, small business, stimulus

 Posted by Raman Chadha, Executive Director

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