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Corporate Venture
NEWS
Test ready: Glenbrook South students ready to pitch ideas
GBN students team up for business incubator course
BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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deas for new business ventures are bubbling up at Glenbrook South High School and some of them are ready for test marketing. These businesses are developing in the business incubator course in entrepreneurship at Glenbrook South High School as part of a new yearlong course where students hope to lure investors toward their venture at a Shark Tank-style sort of final exam. Students, primarily sophomores and juniors, work in teams developing a business model they will test and possibly get funding to launch, according to Michael Macfadden, who teaches the course. There are some seniors. “There is a lot of team building and leadership skills developed,” said Macfadden. “They learn how to take advantage of each other’s strengths and cover weaknesses with another’s strength. It’s unlike their other Continued on PG 8
BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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From left, Kyle Kadish, senior, Miles Kadish, sophomore, and Ryan Cotler, junior, work on their start-up business Friday afternoon at Glenbrook North High School. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HANDWERKER
iscount incentive programs to motivate shoppers have been around for years, but five Glenbrook North High School students have created a new program that supports local businesses. Corporate Catalyst is approaching merchants and restaurants to assemble a package of discounts it can offer to businesses in Northbrook to distribute to their employees, according to Liam Poczatek, a senior and one of the entrepreneurs behind the effort. “We have a lot of small businesses in Northbrook and local corporations with a lot of employees,” said Poczatek. Though Poczatek and his partners—Arie Sztainberg, Patrick Continued on PG 8
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