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Flipsi, a reusable drinking bottle that takes cleaning out of the equation through design, placed second in the Greenlight Business Model Competition held at the Hannah Community Center in Lansing Michigan this past Wednesday. Flipsi, founded by Jeff Plott (MSE ’13)...
At the March directors meeting of the New Enterprise Forum, the Board of Directors unanimously elected Sarika Gupta for a two-year term. Sarika is currently the associate director of the Zell Lurie Institute, where she leads the development and execution of ZLI's...
Congratulations to Keravnos Energy who won the Erb Institute Award for Sustainability at the Michigan Business Challenge, winning them $7,500 for the venture. Kervanos Energy is an energy system that installs heavy duty power electronics and battery storage units in...
Congratulations to Daniel Andersen (MBA'14) and Muhammad Faisal (EECS PhD '14) of Movellus Circuits, a company focusing on a patent-pending clock generator technology for the microprocessor market, on winning the Pryor-Hale Award for Best Business and the Applebaum...
Today we announced the winners of the 31st annual Michigan Business Challenge and recipients of the Applebaum Dare to Dream Grants and Mayleben Family Venture Shaping Grants. The business plan competition and grant programs, recognize promising student-led startups,...
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...
Michigan is fast becoming a hot place for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and U-M is playing a significant role is this fact. Michigan’s venture capital investment has spiked from $84.8 million to $232.3 million just from 2011-2012 and the number of venture...
Cavan Canavan, MBA '12, and Grant Hughes, MBA/MS '13, want to improve your workout through their startup, Focus Solutions. Entrepreneurs are always thinking about the next great idea. For Cavan Canavan, MBA '12, it came while sweating profusely. Canavan's penchant for...
Zell Lurie Institute Executive Director Tom Kinnear recently spoke with Xconomy's Sarah Schmid about the recent Michigan Business Challenge. In addition to discussing some of the great business ideas emerging from student teams that participated in this year's event,...
The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business today announced today the winners of the 30th Michigan Business Challenge and recipients of the Applebaum Dare to Dream...