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This week, the Greater Detroit area hosted the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, an international business competition designed to highlight Michigan as a robust and vibrant venue for innovation. The competition showcased the best and brightest businesses to...
Congratulations to the U-M teams that have tested their mettle against students from other universities in intercollegiate business plan competitions this month: Elegus Technologies—John Hennessy (MsE '14), Long Qian (MsE '14) and Dan VanderLey (MsE '14)—competed in...
As announced earlier this week, Elegus Technologies has been invited to represent the University of Michigan to compete in the 2015 Rice Business Plan Competition for more than $1 million in prizes at Rice University in Houston, TX on April 16-18, 2015. In addition to...
Elegus Technologies has been selected to represent U-M at two of the biggest intercollegiate competitions: the Rice Business Plan Competition (April 16-18) and the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (May 7-9). Elegus Technologies has created a lithium-ion...
Today the eight teams that will advance to the semi-finals of the Michigan Business Challenge were announced. Part of the Institute’s action-based approach to entrepreneurial education, the Michigan Business Challenge is an annual business plan competition that...
In the December issue of Entrepreneur magazine, Michelle Goodman puts forth that business-plan competitions offer more than just seed money for aspiring entrepreneurs. By participating in these competitions, young entrepreneurs can also connect with mentors,...
On Friday evening, the Zell Lurie Institute announced the winners of the 2012 Michigan Business Challenge and recipients of the Applebaum Dare to Dream Grants and Mayleben Family Venture Shaping Grants for U-M student startups. Award winners and grant recipients...
With a keen understanding of and experience mastering the first five entrepreneurial skills - identifying the opportunity, designing, assessing, planning, and resourcing the business, students then must understand how to manage growth. After all, once launched, a...
In addition to financial capital, start-ups also must procure human capital, including management teams, board advisors and providers of legal and other services. The goals of this phase is to answer several key questions: How do you get the capital? How do you get...
The annual, campus-wide Michigan Business Challenge is well underway. The teams moving onto round two were announced earlier this month and include an exciting mix of concepts ranging from e-commerce and retail to medical devices and cloud-based technology platforms....