The Silicon Valley and Midwest chapters helped guide Chicago-based EthnicGrocer, which sells ethnic foods online. TiE-related companies have helped create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of corporate value. Some angel investments of thousands of dollars by TiE leaders in start-ups have grown to millions. It is to mentor entrepreneurs. When you talk about mentorship, you don't put money on the table.
Money becomes the last part.
Word of TiE's success has spread. Of TiE's more than 2,000 members in 20 chapters, more than half are in Silicon Valley. The Chicago-based Midwest chapter, with more than 300 members, was the third formed, and holds third place in size behind Boston. New York has not done as well as Chicago. Chicago turns out to be more entrepreneurial.