by boxcaradmin | Feb 3, 2017 | News
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...
by boxcaradmin | Sep 16, 2016 | News
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...
by boxcaradmin | Aug 18, 2016 | News
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...
by boxcaradmin | Aug 18, 2016 | News
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....
by boxcaradmin | Aug 18, 2016 | News
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...
by boxcaradmin | Aug 18, 2016 | News
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...