Breakthrough Results

Catapult Chicago ?

Catapult Chicago is the uniquely collaborative start-up community located in the heart of Chicago's River North neighborhood. Catapult adheres to the values that are essential to early stage companies - creativity, ambition, collaboration and camaraderie - and adds to that seasoned business expertise in a world class location. Catapult's mission is to take resident companies' ideas to the next level by providing peer proximity, a professional network with execution experience, regular topi...

321 N. Clark St.

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-860-***

Contact：April Lane

Email：april**[ta]**apultchicago.com

http://www.**tapultchicago.com/

Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Small Business Development Center ?

Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The SBDC at the Chicagoland Chamber offers free consulting to small businesses to help them grow. We have the backing of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, but we are not a membership

fee-based group. By offering access to mentors, capital, business plan iteration, marketing plan iteration,custom support (and much more), we help companies grow and eventually create jobs to boost the economy here in Chicagoland.

200 East Randolph Street

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-494-***

Contact：John Roberson

Email：jroberson**[ta]**cagolandchamber.org

http://www.**icagolandchamber.org/wdk_cc/programs_and_advocacy/small_business_.jsp

Designer-in-Residence ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Office of the Vice President for Research at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has engaged Dr. Deana McDonagh, Chair of the Industrial Design Program in the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois and Beckman Institute, as a new Designer-in-Residence. In this role, she will be assisting University of Illinois inventors and entrepreneurs to incorporate product design in their technology development to help improve user experiences and performance of products to meet cust...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

Phone：217-333-***

Contact：Laura Frerichs

Email：lfrerich**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/resources/designer-residence

Designer-in-Residence

Ensemble ?

Ensemble offers entrepreneurs a one-stop, All-Star powered "digital services suite" to plan, execute and benchmark their efforts from ideation through success. All at 20-40% savings. By Entrepreneurs! For Entrepreneurs! The “Digital Services Suite” is designed to materially increase an entrepreneur’s stand-alone odds of success, as we have “been there and done that” with scores of client case studies detailing current best practices in the industry to u...

Chicago, IL

Phone：312-600-***

http://www.**semblehq.com/

Enterprise Works Chicago ?

University of Illinois

Enterprise Works Chicago is a new initiative of the Univeristy of Ilinois system to provide access to resources and support to inventors and entrepreneurs commercializing technology through company formation. With a public launch in April 2013 for applicant intake, EWC will be fully operational in early summer 2013. Programming will include commercialization roadmapping assistance, cost shared access to professional services, SBIR/STTR grant writing assistance, dedicated and shared office and wet...

2201 West Campbell Park Drive

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-829-***

Contact：Kapila Viges

Email：viges**[ta]**linois.edu

http://www.**terpriseworkschicago.com/

Enterprise Works Incubator ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

East Central Illinois University Center

Enterprise Works is the Research Park’s 43,000-square-foot business incubator for early-stage tech firms. It is operated by the University of Illinois to help launch successful startup companies. The 30-plus startups that occupy the office suites and labs at Enterprise Works showcase the potential of innovation in our community. Most, but not all, have a connection to the University. Some have been founded by staff, students,faculty, while others have licensed technology from the UI. Ow...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

Phone：217-333-***

Contact：Laura Frerichs

Email：lfrerich**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/enterpriseworks

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Enterprise Works Incubator

The Research Park created an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program that hires local experienced technology entrepreneurs to provide monthly consulting to new startup ventures and prospective technology entrepreneurs. By sourcing this talent from the local region, the program selects peers that have faced similar challenges in commercializing research/early stage technology and are able to provide advice on their own path to successfully attracting investment, revenue, and industrial clients. T...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

Phone：217-333-***

Contact：Laura Frerichs

Email：lfrerich**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/resources/entrepreneur-residence-program

Envision Sales & Marketing, Inc.

Our all-encompassing service offering enables our clients to work with one effective partner for all of their sales, marketing and business development needs. We work within your budget and develop and individualized plan based on your business' specific needs and goals. Our goal is to become a true partner and successfully help you grow your business. Envision Sales & Marketing provides a one-stop atmosphere for multiple cumulative marketing and sales functions, melding critical tools and f...

P.O. Box***

Crystal Lake, IL 60039-***

Phone：847-462-***

Contact：Bill McHenry

Email：info**[ta]**sales.com

Http://www.**Msales.com

Envision Sales & Marketing, Inc.

FireStarter ?

We are a group of Chicago founders who have come together to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. We all have direct experience founding, operating and investing in digital technology based businesses that leverage the developments of the past forty years. We owe a debt to the innovators who came before us and it is a debt we intend to repay by helping to fund promising new ideas and the entrepreneurs who have the passion and the drive to see their ideas become reality.

http://www.**restarterfund.com/

I-Start program ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The I-Start Entrepreneur Assistance Program is a matching award program targeted to University of Illinois researchers that have a strong potential for technology commercialization through new company formation. I-Start offers a suite of first-year professional services startup services for new University of Illinois entrepreneurs including business development, legal setup, SBIR application, bookkeeping assistance, and marketing assistance. Enterprise Works has referrals to providers that can of...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/resources/i-start-professional-service-assistance

IDEO ?

IDEO (pronounced “eye-dee-oh”) is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow. We identify new ways to serve and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviors, and desires. We envision new companies and brands, and we design the products, services, spaces, and interactive experiences that bring them to life. We help organizations build creative culture and the intern...

626 West Jackson Blvd

7th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**eo.com/locations/chicago/

ITA Marketplace ?

Illinois Technology Association

As companies grow, it’s important to have partners they can trust to help continue the momentum. ITA knows that these partners are not always easy to find, so we’ve taken the work out of it for you! We've also negotiated discounted member rates for a variety of business needs. ITA’s partners include providers in：Human Resources, Insurance, Marketing Services, Office Furniture, Payroll Services, Press Release Distribution, Shipping & Logistics, and Telecommunications. ITA m...

200 South Wacker

15th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-924-***

Contact：Fred Hoch

Email：headquarters**[ta]**inoistech.org

http://www.**linoistech.org/page.aspx/marketplace

Maddock Douglas ?

We exist to help our clients bring industry-changing products, services and business models from mind to market. A typical engagement has three key steps：1. Finding the need and developing clear insights. It involves doing all the “homework” required to identify the most significant economic areas of opportunity

2. Generating and testing ideas to meet those needs. This results in a robust pipeline of new products, services and/or business models that are tested, prioritized and t...

111 Adell Place

Elmhurst, IL 6***

Phone：630-563-***

Contact：McRae Williams

Email：mcrae.w**[ta]**dockdouglas.com

http://www.**ddockdouglas.com/

Mission Main Street Grants ?

is committed to helping small businesses like yours so you can take big steps for your business and your community. Chase is proud to announce as the Premier Sponsor of Mission Main Street? Grants. Together, we’re bringing you special benefits that can help you grow your business. Through Mission Main Street? Grants, businesses can apply for a $250,000 grant from Chase. Business also gain access to our Social Media Toolkit in addition to receiving a&nbs...

Https://www.**ssionmainstreetgrants.com/

Mountain Stream Group, Inc.

Mountain Stream Group is a multi-discipline communications consultancy. We engineer our clients’ success by blending visual, verbal, nonverbal and sensory communication into a multidimensional, behavior-affecting message stream that creates a physical, rational and emotional connection between our clients' stakeholders and their brand, products

services; causes action; and results in problems being answered - on an individual application

a holistic organizational basis. We&rsq...

376 E Jefferson, POB***

Hampshire, IL 60140-***

Phone：847-453-8895 ***

Contact：Jeff Klingberg

Email：jklingberg**[ta]**ntainstreamgroup.com

Http://www.**untainstreamgroup.com

Mountain Stream Group, Inc.

Ocean Tomo, LLC ?

Established in 2003, Ocean Tomo, LLC, is the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc? firm providing an industry leading array of financial products and services related to intangible assets. Ocean Tomo offerings include expert testimony, valuation, strategy, research, ratings, investments, risk management and transactions. Ocean Tomo assists clients - corporations, law firms, governments and institutional investors - in realizing Intellectual Capital Equity? value broadly defin***

200 W. Madison

37th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**eantomo.com/