Personal Finance Online Training — Market and Competitor Research

The Subscription Box Business Model

By: Katerina Gan

Delivering everything from beauty products to cooking kits, businesses built off of subscription box business models are disrupting the e-commerce industry. The marketability of this model is driven by the idea of…

The rivalry between Amazon & Walmart

By: Haze Ahn

2017 has been a breathtaking year for the retail industry. Last year alone, medium and big sized major retailers such as The Limited, Radio Shack, Gymboree, Wet Seal, Rue 21, Payless ShoeSource, Gander Mountain, and most…

Chop Chop Study Shop — Initial Steps and Research

This post tracks the progress of a team taking part in ILC:Entrepreneurship’s 100 Days Startup Challenge.

To introduce ourselves: We are a team of ~8 students and our task was to come up with an idea that we thought we…

Unicorns and Overvaluation

By Kathryn Song

Many of you have probably heard of Uber, Lyft, Spotify, and SpaceX. These kinds of new tech firms seem to dominate the current business landscape, and all are categorized under one umbrella term: unicorn. Although many unicorns are in the…

Delivering Food On-Campus at UChicago

I. Startup Idea:

SnackTaxi- an on-campus food delivery system that takes orders from students for various on-campus cafes and delivers them straight to their exact location on-campus

Personal Finance 101

Market overview

Financial tech has hit a peak with a value of $870 Billion. This includes financial advisory platforms, banking applications, peer to peer lending sites, etc.We will focus on companies that are based on websites.

The Brown Paper Bag 1/18/2018

Hi Guys

Our start-up is a snack delivery service. We offer two different products, one with comfort snacks, the other with health food. People place an order and we send them right to their room.

Book Barter

By: Jessica Kim, Shreya Goyal, Rayan Melwani, David Du, Max Saintfort

Porter’s Five Forces: A Model for Industry Analysis

by Daniel Tumm

When analyzing an industry, there are many approaches that can be taken. One framework known as Porter’s Five Forces is a simple, yet powerful tool that is often overlooked when evaluating the…