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...

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....