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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...

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...

Crain's Detroit November, 2016 David Brophy received the Above and Beyond Award for his 35 years of sharing his knowledge of the venture capital industry and connecting investors with entrepreneurs at Wednesday's Michigan Venture Capital Association's awards...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Crain's Detroit Business July, 2016 David Brophy, a finance professor at the University of Michigan, wants to take 15 early-stage tech companies to school in the prestigious Ross School of Business, and it won't cost them a penny. Read more > 

Crain's Detroit Business July, 2016 David Brophy, director of the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, is one of the godfathers of the local VC community, having...