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In keeping with this year’s Entrepalooza theme, “Entrepreneurship through a Kaleidoscope,” seven entrepreneurs from highly diverse backgrounds shared their personal and professional stories of entrepreneurial passion, challenge and triumph with U-M students on Friday,...
We're very excited to be included in Fortune's list of top universities that produce the most VC-funded female startup founders. According to the article, the University of Michigan placed seventh with 35 female startup founders within their network undergraduate...
Jess Lively was only 15 when she started her own jewelry business in the 1990s, so it was no surprise that she went on to attend and graduate from the Ross School of Business in 2007 to strengthen her entrepreneurial skills. Post-graduation, instead of entering the...
Yesterday, Praveen Suthrum, a Ross alumnus, published an article in the Economic Times of India on how to go that extra step to evolve from just a worker to an entrepreneur. According to Praveen, “a worker waits for things to happen while an entrepreneur goes about...
Earlier this month, Innovate Blue published the first two entries in a blog series by rising Ross junior Praveen Loganathan on his entrepreneurial journey at U-M. In his first entry, Praveen reflects on why he became the CEO and co-founder of InFusion Technologies, a...
Joshua Botkin, Entreprenuer in Residence at the Institute, recently participated in a multi-discipline design charette hosted by the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. Teams were challenged to improve procedures and products used in Ebola healthcare, from better...
Professor Jim Price shared his expertise with VC-List.com on the 10 most common mistakes entrepreneurs make when they're pitching venture capital firms—from failing to understand how venture capital firms work to pitching financials that lack credibility. Be sure to...
The Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business has joined forces with Michigan State University’s Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Broad College of Business to create...
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...