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| Illinois Launch, a new venture pipeline program designed to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation in Champaign-Urbana, began with the Summer Startup Development Program in the summer of 2010. Read the article |
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Zeba Parkar of SilverScreen sits down with Danyelle Michelini of UI7 and discusses a technology her company develops that uses silver to preserve milk. |
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Will Leinweber, founder of MergeFM, talked about his venture that gives fans access to their favorite artist’s creative process on WCIA. |
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Patrick Tannous, founder of Tiesta Tea, was interviewed by Alex Ruggieri on Central Illinois Business Radio Show on WDWS. |
Patrick Tannous and Dan Klein of Tiesta Tea were interviewed by Ashley Sears of WCIA. |
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Many student organizations and clubs try to offer a helping hand, but Illini Prosthetics Team provides entire arms. |
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Scott Daigle and Marissa Siebel of Intelliwheels discussed their innovation on improving wheelchair performance through an automatic gear shifting technology on UI-7. |
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Illini Prosthetics Team was interviewed by Alex Ruggieri on Central Illinois Business Radio Show on WDWS. |
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Steven Rosenberg, CEO of Green Purpose LLC, planned to open a recycling dropoff site. |
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Illini Prosthetics is featured on ABC News Chicago. |
Lemonade Day is six months away, but organizers are already gearing up for Champaign County’s second annual Lemonade Day. |
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Lemonade Day is here again! Last year more than 800 kids participated in Lemonade Day. AEL Executive Director John Clarke aimed at doubling the number of young entrepreneurs for 2011 Lemonade Day. |
August Knecht, Will Leinweber, and Adam Steele, founders of Merge.fm as well as Roshan Choxi, spoke to Grace Lien of the Daily Illini about their newly launched business. |
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Daily Illini interviewed Arpan Shah, a participant of 2010 Illinois Launch Summer Program and one of the founders of PrintEco, about the new startup venture. |
WGN-TV featured a story about a group of Chicago investors planned to save Chicago neighborhoods, one tenant at a time. Al Goldstein, the Managing Principal of Pangea of Equity Partners and the donor who enables the Illinois Launch program, was interviewed in the news story. |
Patrick Tannous and Daniel Klein, founders of Tiesta Tea, began selling their products in local stores. |
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Steven Rosenberg, the founder of Green Purpose and one of the 2010 Illinois Launch student startup ventures, was featured in the News-Gazette. |
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Lemonade Day is a fun and free educational program that teaches youth how to start, own, and operate their own lemonade stand business. It transforms not only the youth who participate, but the entire community. |
Kids around Effingham were turning a sweet venture into a way to help others this past weekend. |
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Hundreds of budding entrepreneurs took to the streets of Champaign-Urbana. It's all for Lemonade Day. |
WCIA3 interviewed Ms. Susan Abbbott, Executive Vice President of Busey Bank. Busey Bank is one of the premier sponsors for 2010 Illinois Lemonade Day |
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SmilePolitely.com, one of the community partners for 2010 Lemonade Day, published a blog post on Lemonade Day. |
WCIA3 spoke with Mr. Michael Holthouse, the founder of Prepared 4 Life and a successful entrepreneur, during the first annual Lemonade Day Kick-off Event. |
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Lemonade Day is a day to give children in Champaign-Urbana the business. |
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The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership introduced a new program, Illinois Launch, that helped student entrepreneurs
prepare a “road map” for their business ideas. |
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The University of Illinois Research Park was included in Forbe's “In Depth:10 Technology Incubators That are Changing the World.” Read more |