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Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Room: C01 | Virtual Meeting Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94365926874?pwd=aIIthYbDjUiggasLVruQP2B8cGkaVP%2E1&from=addon

Investing Essentials: How to Build a Strong Investment Thesis

Juliet Twomey

Megan Santella

Choosing the Right Entity for your Business

Barbara Agyapong

Isra Omar

Room: C01 | Virtual Meeting Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/92860034419?pwd=pjlzuy9PTdmPrQskcFyOBQofJC35Pd%2E1&from=addon

Investing Essentials: VC Interview Prep

Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Building a Pitch Deck with Melissa Harris

Heyward Harrison

Investing Essentials: Private Equity (PE) Interview Prep for Career Changers

Seminar Room 3B; Virtual Meeting Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94607625300?pwd=8zufioTfVId75fG9AEYAB6UJIbZkqc.1

Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Customer Discovery for Startups with Melissa Byrn

Room: C05 | Virtual Meeting Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94829207588?pwd=BPEWGDfW5qqTQmb0YxlEn7xa8aD2W2%2E1

Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Events

Investing Essentials: How to Build a Strong Investment Thesis

Choosing the Right Entity for your Business

Investing Essentials: VC Interview Prep

Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Building a Pitch Deck with Melissa Harris

Investing Essentials: Private Equity (PE) Interview Prep for Career Changers

Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Customer Discovery for Startups with Melissa Byrn

Driving Growth: A Speaker Series on Operating in a Private Equity and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (PE/ETA) Context: Healthcare Oper

Incorporation/Organization Day

Investing Essentials: Fireside Chat with a First-Year Venture Capitalist

Business Acumen Series: Q&A on AI Adoption for Small Business Operations

Polsky Exchange Fireside Chat with Chef Erick Williams

College New Venture Challenge (CNVC): Class Orientation and Teambuilding

Water Street Private Equity Case Challenge (PECC) Finals Competition

Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC)

Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon