The program is operating with oversight from an advisory committee comprised of community leaders and Parkland College faculty and staff, spearheaded by Stephanie Stuart, vice president for communications and external affairs. Parkland Community Education, the college's noncredit arm, is helping to plan and administer the workshops. “I also enjoyed listening to business owners talk about their individual journeys toward opening their startups they were inspirational.” Allen plans to transfer to the University of Illinois in the fall.ĬobraVenture is funded through existing funds from the Parkland Foundation Entrepreneurial Founders Program, Murray Wise Associates PEN Program, and those raised through its annual Entrepreneur of the Year event.
“I really loved getting to put together all the building blocks of what it takes to run a small business,” Allen said about her CobraVenture experience.
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It features a collaborative workspace, topics taught by local serial entrepreneurs, and one-on-one guidance with business mentors. The semester-long CobraVenture accelerator provides students with an avenue for networking and business mentorship. Monday's contest highlighted students from the CobraVenture program's pilot student accelerator lab, which launched in January. Judges for the pitch competition were Dan Marker of Hickory Point Bank, Carly McCrory of the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation, Professor Julie Weishar, chair of Parkland's Fine and Applied Arts department, Joan Dixon of the Community Foundation of East Central Illinois, Eric Wilson of Serra Ventures, and Marissa Siero of University of Illinois Gies College of Business. “Vinyl records are the only physical format growing in music sales currently, and we wish to serve our scene and community by providing an affordable service,” Allen said in her pitch statement. They are fun and good as a novelty but you should be very wary of anyone claiming they can press 1 record - a pressed record is certainly not what youll be receiving. She plans to produce the records through a lathe-cut process instead of a pressed process, allowing for high-quality stereo sound with a short turnaround and no minimum order, according to Allen. Through Central Illinois Vinyl, Allen plans to provide local and short-run custom-cut vinyl records for musicians in and around central Illinois. “I enjoyed getting to know the people in my group as well as the folks at Parkland College who worked hard to make it happen for us.” “I felt happy to win, but the entire experience was rewarding from start to finish,” Allen said. Competing with eight other Parkland students in her cohort during the event, Allen will now receive $3,000 in seed money to start her business, Central Illinois Vinyl. Parkland College announced its inaugural Student Entrepreneur of the Year Monday night.Įlizabeth Allen of Mahomet has won top prize at the first-ever CobraVenture Pitch Showcase, which took place in the school's Student Union.
For all your vintage needs, please be sure to check them out as well./ Categories: Administration, Foundation, General, Student Life Student Wins Inaugural CobraVenture Pitch Showcase Elizabeth Allen of Mahomet receives $3,000 in seed money to launch Central Illinois Vinyl If you don’t see what you want, let us know! We’re happy to special order what you want.We are also proud to share this great new space with another of our favorite local businesses, Dandelion Vintage. Be sure to follow us on Facebook to see a teaser of each week’s new releases. We also sell new and used turntables, which we are all too happy to help you with. The new location is much larger, so we can host more live events on our already famous “record stage” and we’ve expanded our inventory of LPs, CDs, tapes, and video games way beyond what we could cram in the old location. In the fall of 2014, we moved to a new, larger space in the historic old train station building on Chestnut St., just a few blocks from our former downtown location in the One Main building on Main Street. The owner, Jeff Brandt, has only worked in record stores since the early ’90s, first learning the ropes at Periscope CDs and Tapes.
opened its doors in 2004 and has been voted “Best Record Store” in Champaign-Urbana nearly every year since. Address: 100 N Chestnut St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
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