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Detroit-based Social Web Mapping Firm Plans for National Expansion
dbusiness September, 2014 Loveland Technologies, a Detroit- and San Francisco-based social web mapping company, has completed a financing round that will assist the 10-person team in working toward its mission of making public information about every property in the...
ArborMetrix Receives Additional $1.3 Million in Series B Financing
Executive Insight July, 2014 ArborMetrix, Inc. announced that it has increased its Series B financing by $1.3 million to allow Renaissance Venture Capital Fund and Detroit Innovate to participate. The earlier round of Series B financing, announced in July, was led by...
The birth and death of start-ups
Wahington Post February, 2015 Though more and more young tech billionaires seem to be household names, the percentage of new businesses started by 20-to-34-year-old entrepreneurs has actually been declining over the past decade. It slipped from 26.4 percent in 2003 to...
Educating Entrepreneurs: B-Schools Target Entrepreneurs To Hone Start-Up Ecosystems
BusinessBecause May, 2015 Entrepreneurs are investing in a business education. As the global workforce evolves into nations of self-employed workers, upstarts are looking for a way to form teams, develop ideas and fund and launch Read More
Universities are venturing into new territory: Funding start-up businesses
The Washington Post February, 2015 Universities across the country have developed entrepreneurship programs in recent years aimed at encouraging students and faculty to turn promising business ideas into actual companies. Read More
Business Schools Become Masters Of Entrepreneurship
BusinessBecause November, 2014 Nazareno Mario Ciccarello used to be a professional sportsman – but 25 years of diving in Speedo’s ended with a splash in Italy where he took the vice-national champion title for the 10-meter platform. Read More
Social Venture Fund invests in Loveland Technologies
PE Hub September, 2014 The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business today announced that its Social Venture Fund has participated in a Series AA round of financing for...
Zell Lurie Commercialisation Fund promotes AdAdapted
Global University Venturing July, 2014 Michigan University's student-led Zell Lurie Commercialisation Fund is investing in AdAdapted. The total $725,000 investment is made by the fund, as well as investment funds Belle Michigan and State Garden. Read More
Teaching MBAs to be Entrepreneurs
Poets & Quants March, 2015 When you think of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, entrepreneurial prestige might not be your first thought. At a school well known for its strong general management and social impact emphasis, entrepreneurship could...
Venture Capitalists Enlist Student-Run Funds to Find the Next Facebook
The Wall Street Journal April, 2015 On a late Friday afternoon earlier this month, a dozen students crowded around a table in an office overlooking New York City’s Madison Square Park. Their mission: deciding whether to invest a chunk of Read More
Twitter chat focuses on business and innovation
The Michigan Daily February, 2015 In recent years, colleges across the nation, including the University, have started offering degrees, certificates and classes geared toward entrepreneurship and innovation. Read More
What College Can Teach the Aspiring Entrepreneur
The Wall Street Journal November, 2014 How do you use college to learn how to be an entrepreneur? For the student looking to launch a company after graduation, the answers to the typical questions—where do you go to school, what do you study, what clubs do you join...