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Monday, April 24, 2017
The Small Business Clinic celebrates its 10-year anniversary
By Gilien Silsby
Professor Michael Chasalow knows firsthand that launching a startup requires both legal acumen and entrepreneurial skills. Before joining the USC faculty in 2001, Chasalow spent more than a decade providing business and legal consulting to new companies and working with private equity investments in high-tech startups.
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Then: Michael Chasalow with the USC Small Business Clinic inaugural class in 2007. |
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Now: Chasalow with the SBC’s class of 2017. “When I think back on the 85 students who have passed through the clinic ,” he says, “I realize that I have learned as much from them as they have from the clinic.” |
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