Last Thursday, I attended Brave Launch’s Pitch Day, hosted by The Turner Center for Entrepreneurship at Bradley University. What it is Brave Launch is a business model accelerator program in which startup teams focused on lean methodologies and customer discovery…
According to Global Accelerator Network (GAN), it pays to be different when building up your company. While places like Silicon Valley and San Francisco are known for the tech startup ecosystem, GAN argues that starting your company in a "new"…
As Entrepreneur points out, reports show that as many as 90 percent of companies fail. Some entrepreneurs will take this news as a heavy blow, and others will simply turn their sails to the wind and start planning to run…
Startup Peoria is gearing up for Global Entrepreneurship Week with a host of different events. You can check out our full schedule on our calendar, but here are a few things that we are excited about: We have partnered with…
The Pledge President Obama wants cities to be more startup friendly. So the Small Business Administration held a grant competition which awarded 25 U.S. cities $50,000 to streamline the bureaucratic processes that entrepreneurs face when starting up. Here's a quotation…
Here is the list of finalists for the KeyStart pitch competition: Shelf – a museum engagement app | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Veu9P8NEQA&feature=youtu.be Informed Response – an incident preplanning tool for first responders Bonica Berry Juice – an exotic natural sweetener for juice drinks | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oGiq_EVxu8&feature=youtu.be&t=1s…