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Vote now!

February 9th, 2010

Vote for IEN for the Entrepreneur Advocacy Award or one of our startups for the Student Start Up Award! (See below to find out more about them)

The Vice Chancellor for Research of the University of Illinois, the Technology Entrepreneur Center, the Office of Technology Management , the Office of Corporate Relations, Research Park, EnterpriseWorks, and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation are pleased to sponsor the Fifth Annual Innovation Celebration in recognition of those individuals and organizations that have made significant contri! butions, taken risks, and provided leadership to ensure the continuing economic success of Champaign County, the ongoing success of the University’s economic development mission, and the growth of entrepreneurial talent and energy in the community.
Eight awards have been established, recognizing the various ways in which individuals and organizations have utilized innovation, creativity, and leadership for entrepreneurial endeavor and economic development in the community. Nominations for the awards is open to the public and will be accepted through February 15, 2010. Click to fill out a nomination form.

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D’oh!

February 5th, 2010

We had a bug where pressing the ‘Subscribe’ button to subscribe to our monthly newsletter did not do anything, but it should be fixed now. Our bad!

If you find any other bugs please let us know by emailing us at illinientrepreneurshipnetwork@gmail.com

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First General Meeting

January 31st, 2010

We’re kicking off IEN with our first general meeting for the semester. It’s at:

Siebel Center 2405
Tuesday, February 2nd
6pm

And we’re giving out Apple iPads! (Just kidding, we’re not … maybe) However, we will be going over a lot of other cool upcoming topics such as:

A Ruby on Rails Workshop with ACM
An IdeaStorm
An Ignite Event
The Illinois Launch Program
A Pitching  Workshop
Finding a Team
IEN Startup Consulting

and some other equally awesome stuff. It’s also your chance to find out how you can get involved, suggest ideas, and figure out how to jump start that idea you’ve had in the back of your mind for a while now.

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Illinois Launch

January 27th, 2010

We’re excited to announce the start of a new campus-wide program called Illinois Launch that will focus together all of the different entrepreneurial organizations with resources such as incubators or contests under one umbrella. Illinois Launch will take applications from student entrepreneurs and set them up with a plan and guidance to where their particular venture should go, whether it is Enterprise Works, Illinois Ventures, or your very Student Venture Accelerator with TEC and IEN. Please note that we will no longer be taking applications to the Accelerator directly, rather, apply via Launch’s application system instead.

Flyer for Illinois Launch

Flyer for Illinois Launch

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Yar, Matey

December 12th, 2009

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Founders: Abi Noda, Patrick Sullivan

Website: http://yarmatey.com

Yar, Matey is a pirate-themed site that let’s you easily find roommates on Facebook. It’s modeled after how students traditionally look for roommates on Facebook — fill out a survey then filter and find potential roommates. It’s free to use and only takes a minute to get listed.

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Want to work for a startup?

To post a new job, just email us with a description and your contact information at illinientrepreneurshipnetwork@gmail.com

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Student Venture Accelerator

We want to make it easy to start a company while being an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. So, we created a program called the Student Venture Accelerator. This programs is built for students who have a business idea, but who need some help getting started. Benefits of the program include:

  • Exemption from standard University Intellectual Property rules (you own the business you start out of the space we provide). This is typically not the case when working independently.
  • Shared space with phone and fax service, computers with internet access, hand tools to develop working models, and mentorships.
  • Additional equipment, where available. This may include stipends for company founders, server space, etc.
  • Opportunities to meet other IEN student entrepreneurs and establish contacts with partner organizations.

If you are interested in becoming part of the Student Venture Accelerator please fill out our SVA application form. New applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis on the third Thursday of each month.

Sponsors

Technology Entrepreneur Center

Linode

Unfuddle

Basecamp

37signals

EatCU

Pragmatic Programmers

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About

The Illini Entrepreneurship Network (IEN) is the leading entrepreneurship organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The mission of IEN is to promote entrepreneurship on campus and encourage students to create their own ventures.

We currently run the following projects:

Student Venture Accelerator (SVA)

The Student Startup Incubator was designed to help student entrepreneurs gain a competitive advantage. The SVA provides students with free office space, as well as other amenities such as computers, printers, phones, fax, server space, and internet access. The SVA office space is provided by the Technology Entrepreneur Center.

Consulting

IEN has a team of student consultants who have experience working with local businesses and startups in research park. This team not only helps startups get off their feet, but also provides our members with valuable consulting experience. If you’re interested in working with local startups, please come to our next meeting (we send news and events through our mailing list).

Networking

The most difficult part of any startup is finding the right people to work with, so networking is a core part of IEN.







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