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LCCC to celebrate
Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov.
17-18
Lorain County Community College will celebrate Global
Entrepreneurship Week with activities sure to inspire
entrepreneurs of all ages.
The events will take place on
Wednesday, November 16 and
Thursday, November 17, 2011 on the LCCC campus. All
activities are free and open to the public.
The celebration will kick off at 11
a.m., Wednesday, November 16 with a
Great Lakes Innovation and
Development Enterprise (GLIDE) Open House at the Entrepreneurial
Innovation Center (EIC). The open house will go until noon and
include a presentation by Dennis Coco and Cliff Reynolds,
co-directors of GLIDE. During this time, entrepreneurs in
residence at GLIDE will open their doors to visitors.
From 12-12:50 p.m., Andrea Trgovcich, an Innovation Fund
award winner and owner of Wellness Integrated Network, will
present at a brown bag luncheon on the topic “Female Investment
Groups.” The lunch is open to the public and will be held in the
EIC lobby.
From 1-1:45 p.m., Trgovcich and other entrepreneurs will be
available for networking and a question and answer session in
the EIC lobby.
On Thursday,
November 17,
GLIDE will host a business assessment table in College Center
from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jim
Gray from the Small Business Development Center, along with
Katie Van Dyke from GLIDE will be available to mentor and guide
students interested in starting their own businesses.
Van Dyke and Gray will be joined by Mike Belsito, an
Innovation Fund winner and owner of eFuneral and his partner
Bryan Chaikin. Belisto was named the “Entrepreneur in
Residence” for the City of Lakewood
earlier this year, and started an initiative called Startup
Lakewood (www.startuplakewood.com)
and created a series of events (Startup U) that focuses on
topics that entrepreneurs and soon-to-be entrepreneurs care
about.
For more information about Global Entrepreneurship Week at LCCC,
visit
www.lorainccc.edu/entrepreneurweek.
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