Protect Your Food Business:  Understanding & Choosing the Right Insurance Insurance is essential to food and beverage businesses, but too often entrepreneurs are over-quoted or provided with the wrong coverage information. Protect your business as you scale. This presentation will help you understand the basics of insurance and some of the coverage options available.  *This class is free for residents of the West Side communities. To register, email dani@thehatcherychicago.org, or call 312-283-5767 with your address!* About the presenter: Anna Maria…

How to Prepare Your Company to Raise $30 Million Join us on November 12th as we engage a panel of experts from the top Chicago Venture Capital firms as well as high growth companies who have successfully raised funding and scaled their company.  Attendees can expect to gain relevant insights that will help them position themselves to raise capital and grow their business. The panel discussion will follow with a Q&A section open to the audience as well as refreshments…

Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network presents The Founder's Series: The Pulse of the Chicago Startups The Hatchery is happy to partner with Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network to host the final installment in their 2019 Founder's Series. This 5th and final 2019 event in the Founders Series dives into the "Start-Up Scene" here in Chicago - how is Chicago different from NY, LA, Boulder?  How is Chicago's scene and companies developing - who are the ones to watch?  What does 2020 hold…

Tis' the Season to Stand Out! Gear Up for Festivals and Markets If you build it, they will come. But who are they? And are you sure they will come? Because a bunch of other people built something too... In this seminar, we'll highlight the importance of identifying and understanding your core audience, dovetailing into how you can most effectively communicate with them in the real world. We’ll spend most of our time reviewing case studies and tactics of activating…