As part of its internal growth strategy, Internet-services company CloudAccess.net is adding the world’s leading blogging and webhosting platform, WordPress, to its Content Management Systems, or CMS, product offerings. Currently, CloudAccess.net is the flagship...
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Student-led Social Venture Fund Invests in Powerhouse Dynamics
The Social Venture Fund, the nation’s first student-led impact investing fund, has participated in a bridge financing round for Powerhouse Dynamics, a cloud-based provider of enterprise energy and asset management solutions. Powerhouse Dynamics secured Series A...
“Chat Sports Startup Changing the Way You Follow Your Teams”
The Zell Lurie Institute was recently featured in the Monroe Street Journal in a story on Chat Sports’ chief operating officer Brett Scott. The article details how the Institute was able to connect Scott with Chat Sports during his MBA program and how that fostered a...
UM Growth Capital News: HistoSonics Makes Key Advances in Clinical Studies and Venture Financing
Over the past year, HistoSonics Inc. has laid important groundwork for clinical studies and venture financing to advance the commercialization of its Vortx Rx histotripsy system. The Ann Arbor-based company is now well-positioned for rapid market entry and expansion....
Business Leader agrees with Stewart Thornhill’s Financial Times Article on Failure
This week, Zell Lurie Institute’s Executive Director Stewart Thornhill wrote an article for the Financial Times on the importance of failure in an entrepreneurial education. The following day James Gardner, SVP Product of MindJet Inc., responded to the editor agreeing...
Kim Gans ‘03 Follows Her Dreams and Launches Sweet Flour Bake Shop in Toronto
Kim Gans is a 2003 alumna and in 2002, her team received a $20,000 Dare to Dream grant to move their business venture forward. Although the venture eventually came to an end, Kim moved forward with her own dreams. After working for several years at General Mills, she...
“Student-run fund invests in local startups”
The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund was recently featured in Michigan Daily as a source of funding for the Ann Arbor start-up community. Below is an excerpt from the piece. “Though startups in Ann Arbor and within the University community are notably diverse, they...
“An Interview with the Founders of Nodify”
The Monroe Street Journal conducted an interview with the Michigan Business Challenge winner and Dare to Dream Grant recipient, Nodify. Below is an excerpt from the article. “We hear the word 'entrepreneurship' thrown around Ross on a daily basis, but not many of us...
“Out of Failure Springs Innovation”
Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, reported for the Financial Times on the most important business school takeaway for entrepreneurs--failure. In the article, Thornhill explains that an entrepreneur should be...
Activate a Venture Capital Career at Michigan Ross: Erica Sivertson, MBA ’15
First-year MBA candidate Erica Sivertson, MBA ’15, is building the foundation for her targeted career in consulting and entrepreneurial business at the Zell Lurie Institute. The Institute’s $5.5 million Wolverine Venture Fund has served as a “school within a school,”...