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Feb 24

PODCAST: How Gig Work Fuels Entrepreneurship

In this episode of Research Reverb, Professor Spyros Lagaras digs into his research exploring how common it is for gig economy workers to use that experience as a pathway to entrepreneurship.

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Feb 05

Gies Business launches U of I’s first student-led venture capital fund

Thanks to a generous gift from Illinois alumni Douglas and Deborah Ackerman, Gies College of Business is pleased to announce the launch of a new student-led venture capital investing program – Orange & Blue Ventures.

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Jan 28

Using AI as co-founders, Gies students build real-world apps

Students in Vishal Sachdev's “AI Solopreneurship & Product Building” course ideate, code and publicly launch a web or mobile product in just 15 short weeks – using only AI tools.

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Jan 14

EntreCorps proves mutually beneficial for startups and consultants

Housed in the Origin Ventures Office of Entrepreneurship in Gies College of Business, EntreCorps provides valuable consulting work at no charge for startups within the University of Illinois ecosystem.

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Jan 08

Illinois students launch InvoGenix, an AI startup tackling $600M healthcare paperwork crisis

Poets&Quants agrees with InvoGenix’s potential, recently naming it one of the nation’s Most Disruptive Business School Startups of 2025.

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Dec 18

Gies Business provides MBA alum the power to jumpstart energy systems company

PowerBox is designing an architecture that enables growth, the ability to scale to different dimensions, and that can universally convert and work with new energy sources.

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Dec 11

When Disruption Grows Up: Examining Uber’s shift from radical startup to mature firm

More than a decade after its inception, Uber isn't the same disruptor it once was. A new Gies Business study argues that the Uber of today behaves less like a disruptive tech startup and more like a traditional, mature firm.

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Nov 14

Too much media coverage can have adverse effects on startups

Study argues that too much early media attention can cause startups to become rigid and less likely to change, which is most often necessary in the early stages.

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Aug 21

Gies Business student wins 2025 Campus Award for Public Engagement

Mizan views business as a tool for building solutions that matter, whether that’s a medical device, a community resource, or a new way to tackle environmental problems.

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Aug 11

Chicago component highlights iVenture Accelerator Cohort 11

For 10 years, the iVenture Accelerator at Gies College of Business has helped jumpstart University of Illinois-based companies. This year, 43 students and nine teams began the accelerator on campus and then transitioned to TechNexus for the month of June.

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Jul 16

Faculty Entrepreneurial Leadership Programs welcomes 26 members

Designed to help faculty innovators enhance the commercial and social impact of their research, FELP is a selective professional development program that imparts entrepreneurial knowledge and self-efficacy without requiring prior startup experience.

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Jun 18

Academic founders build broader tech, new study finds

New research from Gies Business suggests that founders with academic backgrounds may engage problems differently from their industry peers thanks to a mindset shaped not by product-market fit, but by intellectual curiosity.

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