Center for Entrepreneurship Press
| Forbes: Michigan I-Corps Program In Ann Arbor Begins Today |
Michigan Innovation Corps (I-Corps) is a statewide program that was designed to foster and grow an innovation ecosystem. Read more... |
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US News & World Report: A Sharp New Focus on Job Skills |
The University of Michigan's new entrepreneurship curriculum, a joint venture between the business and engineering schools, should roold boost his "potential for success," predicts Steven Sherman. Read more... |
| Xconomy: U-M’s Month of Entrepreneurship Seeks to Engage Entire Campus |
The University of Michigan is attempting to bring its nationally recognized entrepreneurship efforts to the entire 43,000-member student body during its Month of Entrepreneurship, which, with events in February and March, is technically now stretching into a third month due to popular demand. Read more... |
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The Ann: Big Ideas Big Money |
Grace Hsia, a 23-year-old graduate student at the University of Michigan, thinks she has the next big business idea and she spends most of her waking hours making sure it succeeds. Read more... |
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Education Week: Michigan Program Teaches TFA Members Entrepreneur Skills |
A program at the University of Michigan is introducing members of the Teach for America program to a concept of increasing interest on college campuses around the country: education entrepreneurship. Read more... |
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Fox Business: Entrepreneurship Courses: What Students Can Expect |
Many successful entrepreneurs never walked across the stage to receive a college diploma, but schools are increasing their offerings to educate and train the next generation of big thinkers. Read more... |
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: "NSF Expands Program to Teach Researchers to Be Entrepreneurs" |
"The National Science Foundation outlined plans on Wednesday to aggressively expand a program for teaching entrepreneurial skills to faculty members and graduate students, saying the initiative's first year has shown it to be a cost-effective pathway to commercializing discoveries." Read more... |
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Raising CEO Kids: "13 Colleges Perfect for Aspiring Entrepreneurs" |
"If my kid wants to go to college, what schools will allow them to grow their business while pursuing a degree?" Read more... |
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The New York Times: "Campus Incubators Are on the Rise as Colleges Encourage Student Start-ups" |
“It’s possible for a 20-year-old to create something that changes the world,” says Bryce C. Pilz, a University of Michigan law professor who works with student start-ups. Read more... |
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Record Update: "U-M to play leading role in national project to move research to market" |
In a move designed to fast-track more research from the lab to the real world, U-M was named one of two new nodes of the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps program, NSF officials announced today (July 18) at an I-Corps anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C. Read more... |
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Crain's Detroit: "New Programs" |
This directory was compiled from dozens of interviews with academic, admissions and marketing executives within these schools. The list is meant to showcase programs of interest to a Southeast Michigan business readership. Read more... |
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Record Update: "Students experience 'boot camp' with legendary game designer Sid Meier" |
You are navigating the jungles of the city, desperately trying to catch the bus. Dodging traffic, jumping skateboards and avoiding construction zones. But first, you must make a decision: would you rather be a hippo, a man or a mouse? This is the theme of a video game designed by three engineering students at a two-week-long "boot camp" at U-M that ended Friday, when students showcased their projects. Read more... |
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USA Today: "Programs encourage new grads to try entrepreneurship" |
Graduating from college soon and no job in sight? Maybe you can create your own. Opportunities are springing up nationwide for budding entrepreneurs. Read more... |
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In one of the largest entrepreneurial events of the year on U-M’s campus, more than 50 student-founded startups will pitch their ideas to potential investors and report on the their progress at the TechArb Spring Showcase. Read more... |
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Winter 2012 Michigan EntrepreNews |
CFE semester highlights featured in our latest newsletter. Read more... |
Student Startup Press
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Concentrate Media: U-M students launch music tournament start-up Stamp.fm |
Omar Hashwi has always thought public performance and music platforms like Youtube were difficult to use and unfriendly to small bands and DJs looking to break out. Read more... |
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MedCity News: Motion-following back brace aims to take the pressure off doctors’ aching backs |
Doctors and surgeons are used to recommending back braces for patients who have back pain or have had surgery, but as it happens, many of them could probably benefit from some back support, too. Read more... |
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Record Update: U-M team wins top prize at Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge |
A team of U-M graduate students won the $50,000 top prize Friday in the Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge for their unmanned-aerial-vehicle technology. Read more... |
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Business Insider: 16 Great Startups College Students Are Working On Right Now |
Carolyn is the CEO and a co-founder of CentriCycle, a startup that has created a manually powered and sustainable centrifuge that allows health care workers to prepare bodily fluids, like blood, for diagnostic tests. Read more... |
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Concentrate Media: "U-M start-ups take 1st and 3rd spots at Accelerate Michigan" |
Start-ups coming out of the University of Michigan continue to dominate the student portion of the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. Read more... |
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The Atlantic: "These Students Love Startups Like the Animal House Guys Loved Beer"
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The second I started to mill around TechArb, the University of Michigan's student start-up accelerator, I was approached by three students who were the very picture of youthful energy. Read more... |
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AnnArbor.com: "Top 3 eye-catching inventions from University of Michigan student entrepreneurs" |
There are stories of famous entrepreneurs who never finished college - Bill Gates and Michael Dell come to mind - but the University of Michigan is banking that today students starting companies will want to stay in school if given the right resources. Read more... |
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Concentrate Media: "U-M grads turn shopping into a social media experience, launch HangTrend.com" |
A group of recent University of Michigan graduates have come together to create an Internet start-up that combines both shopping and social media called HangTrend.com. Read more... |
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The Michigan Daily: "Student-led Arbor Haven Foods begins selling in Ann Arbor" |
Finding a niche in today’s economy may be tricky, but in Arbor Haven Foods’ case, it is oh, so sweet. Arbor Haven Foods isn’t concerned about getting into a ground war with existing bakeries over cookie turf. Their motive is about providing a distinct product in response to a growing demand for gluten-free foods. Read more... |
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Concentrate Media: "Ann Arbor's Studentpreneurs" |
Kendra Hall and Dan Morse aren't the only college students working at one of the Mark's Carts food trucks downtown, but they aren't sharing the same school-and-work experience as the average student employee. Read more... |
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Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MDDI): "40 Under 40 Profiles" |
While receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan, Bernstein led a team that developed a noninvasive device for detecting internal bleeding. Read more... |
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QSR Magazine: "Top Movers & Shakers Under 30" |
A Michigan native, Lemmer grew up visiting her grandparents on the East Coast. They emigrated from Italy and brought with them a delicious recipe for Italian water ice. Read more... |
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Record Update: "A fusion of food and empowerment comes to life in the Beet Box" |
Less than a year ago in Africa, two new friends who were studying abroad wondered if they could fuse their passions in a way that would impact society. Kay Feker is a foodie. Daniel Morse is into youth empowerment programs. Read more... |
