Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur Workshop & Entrepreneurial Summit

 

November 19 @ 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

 

This free one-day workshop is open to all college-level entrepreneurs, students and faculty members. Participants learn the key elements involved in starting a business, including how to write a business plan; what investors are looking for in an entrepreneur; and how to successfully present a plan to investors.  Attendees have the opportunity to network and dine with community leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and economic development experts.

 

The keynote speaker is Barry Moltz.  Barry has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities.  Barry is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship and a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.  He has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging in size from 20 to 20,000 and appeared on many TV and radio programs such as The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, MSNBC’s Your Business and NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show. He hosts his own radio show, Business Insanity Talk Radio, and writes regularly for the American Express Open Forum, Forbes.com and Crain’s Chicago Enterprise City.

 

Panelists:

• David King , Founder,  Exaptive
• Dirk Spiers, President, Spiers New Technologies Inc.
• Kris Rush, Founder & CEO, JustGOODNews.Biz

Instructors:

• Dr. Elaine Hamm, Accele Biopharma
• Kenneth Knoll, WeGoLook

 

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Thursday, November 19 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

 

This annual entrepreneurial event features keynote speaker, Barry Moltz. Barry has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. The Entrepreneurial Summit will also include lessons learned from a panel of local entrepreneurs who will share their successes and failures and the strategies that worked and those that didn’t. 

• Dave King, Founder,  Exaptive
• Dirk Spiers, President,  Spiers New Technologies Inc.
• Kris Rush, Founder & CEO, JustGOODNews.Biz  

This event concludes with a networking luncheon with entrepreneurial college students who will be participating simultaneously in the annual Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur workshop.

 

Barry Moltz is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship and a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.  He has taught entrepreneurship, given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging in size from 20 to 20,000 and appeared on many TV and radio programs such as The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, MSNBC’s Your Business and NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show. He hosts his own radio show and has authored numerous books. 

 

This is a no-cost half-day event; registration is required by Thursday, November 12.