There was a great article in USA Today, and I wanted to share.

Rhonda Abrams recalls the best advice she got from Silicon Valley icon Eugene Kleiner.  You can read them all here.  A few that jumped out at me and that are often overlooked:

So you’ve got a great startup idea. But what do you do with it? Do you have a business plan? Do you have a business partner or any idea where you’ll go for financial backing? How will you support yourself while you’re figuring these things out? How will you even learn how to do them?

For the third year, Chicago Ideas Week (CIW), the annual seven-day event intended to provoke deep connections and inspire new ideas among innovators around the world, will partner with the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Created by philanthropists and entrepreneurs Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand, the BHSI Fellowship honors three outstanding individuals who have developed innovative for-profit and not-for-profit ventures that address social needs to participate at CIW and contributes $10,000 to their venture.

That’s what I know deep in my Heart… And that’s why I believe it. But it’s not what you believe… And honestly that’s okay. Why should you? I’m just some unknown guy writing a blog… Right? Okay. But understand this… This unknown guy’s goal is to PREACH! And make you a believer… Like everyone else is trying to do with their sermons. But unlike them I want to make you a true believer…

The UIC Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, hosted by University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies (IES), inducted eleven outstanding entrepreneurs Thursday evening