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This One Simple Trick Might Help ContentOro Banish Stale Clickbait
Xconomy August, 2016 ContentOro provides its customers with more than just words, Chunn said, describing what the company does as “selling in context.” The startup delivers articles complete with imagery and references to its customers’ products woven into the text....
Entering a Small Business Funding Contest
Entrepreneur January, 2017 Prizes from business contests run the gamut. A seemingly infinite number of local and business-school competitions offer small-change awards of $5,000 to $15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six-figure prizes annually, as do...
Coulter Foundation joins Michigan Growth Capital Symposium
Crain's Detroit December, 2016 Thanks to participation from the Miami-based Coulter Foundation, organizers for the 36th annual Michigan Growth Capital Symposium say May's event will be the biggest and best ever. Forty Midwest companies will make pitches for...
Michigan Growth Capital Symposium begins accepting applications
Crain's Detroit January, 2017 Organizers of the 36th annual Michigan Growth Capital Symposium have begun accepting applications from early- to mid-stage companies that want to make pitches for capital at this year's event. The conference, May 16-17 at...
Michigan Private Equity Conference to Cover Global Credit Market Issues, Opportunities
DBusiness September, 2016 More than 250 private equity, investment banking, and business professionals from around the United States are expected to attend the 11th annual Michigan Private Equity Conference, to be held later this month in Ann Arbor. The conference...
4 Things Social Entrepreneurs Need in a B-School
U.S. News & World Report November, 2016 Last fall, when second-year MBA student Holly Price started school at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, she came in knowing that she wanted to find a philanthropic way to use her...
Michigan Ross Woman-Led Fund Unleashed
Poets & Quants October, 2016 The Founders Fund is a portion of a $60 million endowment gifted in the summer of 2015 from Sam Zell, University of Michigan alum and chairman of Chicago-based Equity Group Investments. All told, the Zell Family Foundation has gifted...
Ben and Jerry’s Co-Founder to Present Keynote at Annual U-M Entrepreneurship Event
Business September, 2016 Ben and Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield will present the keynote speech on Sept. 23 at the 2016 Entrepalooza, an annual event held by the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s...
Report: Michigan at crossroads in diversifying economy
Crain's Detroit Business July, 2016 Tom Kinnear, chairman of the Venture Michigan Fund since it was launched in 2006 and the founding executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Ross School of Business at...
10 Books on Entrepreneurship to Read This Weekend
Inc. July, 2016 An entrepreneur's work is never done, but it's important to make some time for rest and relaxation, especially when the sun is shining and summer barbecues are popping up on every corner. While you're lounging on the beach or even...
UM STUDENT FUND INVESTS IN ANN ARBOR DIGITAL CONTENT FIRM
Tech Century August, 2016 The University of Michigan’s Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund has invested in ContentOro, a digital content firm based in Ann Arbor. The $50,000 investment from the Zell Lurie Fund, part of a larger bridge round, will help ContentOro...
ContentOro gets $50,000 from student-run fund at UM
crain's Detroit Business August, 2016 Ann Arbor-based ContentOro LLC, which provides websites with licensed content from books, has received an investment of $50,000 from the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund, which is part of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie...