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2011
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December 2011 Student entrepreneurs get business down to a ‘tea’ with the help of the Illinois Launch program, which provided them with helpful guidance as well as a startup loan for their business and an office in Research Park, Tiesta Tea got on its feet in March of 2010. Read the article |
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December 2011 Illinios Launch Startup Illini Prosthetic Team advances in James Dyson Product Competition. The Illini Prosthetic Team was the only North American team to advance to the global round of the James Dyson Product Competion. IPT also recently returned from their second trip to Guatemala for product testing. Read the article |
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October 2011 A catalyst to entrepreneurial activity at the UI, Dr. James "Jim" Economy. Read More |
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July 10, 2011 Illinois Green Business Association celebrates its third anniversary and continues to promote sustainable business practices throughout the state. Read the article |
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August 25, 2011 Illinois Launch Startup Bootcamp may not have required a lot of pushups, but it certainly whipped its participants into shape. Read more |
2010
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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. |
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Community Concierge Magazine published an article on the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Illinois Launch program in the Winter 2010-2011 issue. Download the full article (5MB) Courtesy of the Community Concierge Magazine |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership introduced a new program, Illinois Launch, that helped student entrepreneurs
prepare a “road map” for their business ideas. |