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OneChrist

October 25th, 2009

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Founders: Sam Liu, Josiah Wang
Website: http://www.onechrist.org

Started in June 2009, OneChrist is a student startup at the University of Illinois and Boston University creating a platform to network churches throughout the United States. OneChrist is interested in helping churches by developing a web platform for communication, organization, and management. In addition, OneChrist will enable churches to provide various services to their congregations and turn the web into a valuable ministry tool.

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Photos from Cory Levy/TEC/IEN Networking Event

October 20th, 2009

Thanks for everyone who came to the Pizza Networking event last
Saturday at Rosati’s with members of the Illini Entrepreneurship
Network, TEC, and the guest EIR Cory Levy.

Here are some pictures from the event.

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Lemelson Competition: $30k prize

October 20th, 2009

Call for entries opened yesterday (10/19) and runs through 11/20. In
case you aren’t familiar with the Lemelson competition, it is open to
both graduate and undergraduate students who have created or improved
a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a
system, or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness in other ways. A cash
prize of $30,000 is awarded to the student who wins the competition.
TEC is hosting informational sessions on 10/27 from 12-1 in 2240 DCL
and on 10/28 from 5-6 in 162 NOYES. Food will be served at both
sessions. More information can be found at www.30kprize.illinois.edu.

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Palantir Info Session Tonight

October 14th, 2009

Palantir is hosting an information session tonight (Wednesday, 10/14)
at 6:00 p.m. in 2405 Siebel Center. Stop by to hear about how Palantir
is radically changing how groups analyze information. Demos, Papa
Del’s, and a chance to win an iPod Touch.

About Palantir
Palantir Technologies is working to radically change how groups
analyze information.

Palantir’s two products, Palantir Government and Palantir Finance, are
platforms for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing the world’s
information. We support many kinds of data including structured,
unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Our products are
built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of
use, and collaboration.

Palantir Government is broadly deployed in the intelligence, defense,
and law enforcement communities, and is spreading rapidly by
word-of-mouth. Palantir Finance is in use at some of the world’s
leading hedge funds and financial institutions.
Check out the Palantir Goverment Analysis Blog and the Palantir
Finance Analysis Blog for some in-depth scenarios covering everything
from piracy, overhead imagery, cyber-defense, to currency volatility
and oil trading strategies.

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IEN Rosati’s Pizza Networking Event with Cory Levy

October 13th, 2009

The Illini Entrepreneurship Network would like to invite you to Pizza
Networking event with student entrepreneur Cory Levy.

When: This Saturday, October 17th at 5:30 pm
Where: Rosati’s Pizza (701 S. Gregory St. #H, Urbana)
How: Register via https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/3736710

RSVP is limited to 40 students so register quick!

Special thanks to Technology Entrepreneurship Center (TEC) for
sponsoring the event.

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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.

Contact

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