News Small Business Spotlight: With Taylor’s Tacos, West Coast Street Food Finds West Side Community After moving back home to Chicago from California, Taylor Mason missed Los Angeles’ ubiquitous street tacos. She’d get an occasional whiff thanks to a guy who sporadically set up a...
News 4 Illinois Student Startups Will Compete in SXSW’s Student Startup Madness Forget basketball. For student entrepreneurs, South by Southwest offers a different kind of “madness” in March. Read more.
News Why Billionaire Mark Cuban Invested in an Afghan Saffron Start-up Run By Veterans on ‘Shark Tank’ Mark Cuban is a Dallas-based tech entrepreneur who is obsessed with basketball, so a Chicago-based start-up selling saffron produced in Afghanistan may seem outside his investment sweet spot. Yet the billionaire made...
News Glowing Success Imagine you know nothing about basketball and have to figure out how the game works based on a few random snapshots. Depending on the snapshots you happen to have, it...
News Small Business Spotlight: Larry’s Barber College Stays a Cut Above With New Walmart Shop Angela Harvey had never cut hair before she enrolled in Larry’s Barber College. Her first time wielding clippers, after months of classroom instruction, “I was shaking like a leaf,” she...
Event Driving Growth: A Speaker Series on Operating in a PE/ETA Context April 18, 2023 Join the Polsky Center as we explore topics on operating and CXO within private equity and entrepreneurship through acquisition. The first lecture in the Driving Growth Speaker Series will feature...
News Small Business Spotlight: ‘I Choose the Ladder’ Coaches Fortune 500 Companies on Employee Development, Retention Three years ago, Watchen Nyanue, MBA ’22 had a dream job as the senior vice president of marketing partnerships for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. The only problem? It wasn’t...
Event Driving Growth: A Speaker Series on Operating in a PE/ETA Context December 1, 2023 This lecture focused on CXO will feature Booth alum Jack Fitzgibbons MBA ’15, Jack is the Chief Executive Officer of Assembly Health, a technology enabled services provider to thousands of...
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Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
