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Tag Archives: Entrepreneurship
Chicago’s Entrepreneurial Spirit is Burning Bright
Today ends a 3-day fast paced visit to Chicago for myself and many UM entrepreneurial students who came here to engage the Chicago entrepreneurial network. On Sunday, I was thrilled to see so many wolverines participating in Chicago’s Startup Weekend … Continue reading
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Tagged CFE, Chicago, College of Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Impact Driven, Lean Startup, SIIdeasWeek, Startup, U-M, umich, University of Michigan
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Disruptive Ideas Require Identifying Core Value
Consider this question: ”Describe the value of a gas station”. I like to ask entrepreneurs this question as a thought experiment of how hard it is sometimes to isolate value from something we are used to experiencing every day. A … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, CFE, College of Engineering, Customer Discovery, Entrepreneurship, Startup, U-M, umich, University of Michigan, Volt
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225+ A2 Entrepreneurs at TechArb last night
Last night was the UM Student Startup Showcase at the new TechArb location where 225 Ann Arbor entrepreneurs gathered to see not only the 8 most recent student startups to complete the TechArb program but also to meet the 20 … Continue reading
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Record Applications for TechArb (session #7)
A record number of University of Michigan student startup teams have applied for access to TechArb for the upcoming session (#7 – November 2011 through April, 2012). Tomorrow (Monday) we have interviews with each of the startup teams that are … Continue reading
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(2030) Order edited or modified
“(2030) Order edited or modified” is the latest status on my Chevy Volt order when I checked today… and I’m thrilled! It’s been two weeks since the last change to my Volt order (originally placed on 8/25/2011) and I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, CFE, College of Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Impact Driven, Startup, University of Michigan, Volt
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Is Ann Arbor Ready?
Trying to get a fire lit when you are camping is sometimes a struggle. Sure, everyone has their 2 cents on how to stack the wood, prime the fire and light a match but ultimately we never know if the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, CFE, College of Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Steve Blank, University of Michigan
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Acumen Fund Presents at 407 Today
The CFE is hosting today @ 2pm at Stamps Wei Wei Hsing from the Acumen Fund. These guys are amazing! If you don’t know much about what they do you should watch this TED video by one of their founders, … Continue reading
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How many entrepreneurs does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
40! Apparently, as that is the number of teams that have applied to be part of this year’s Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge (almost doubling last year)! This is really exciting as we have completely revamped the Michigan Clean Energy Prize … Continue reading
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Tagged CFE, College of Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Impact Driven, University of Michigan
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UM Entrepreneurs – Prepare for Chicago
Today is the last day UM students can apply to the Chicago Entrepreneurial Experience 2011 trip. Why is this event important? Each year the Center for Entrepreneurship takes a group of entrepreneurial students on the road to tour amazing startups, … Continue reading
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Tagged CFE, Chicago, College of Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, U-M, University of Michigan
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Celebrating Success – Written by Doug Neal
This is the final blog post of the Acceleration Project. See last week’s post for the Acceleration Phase and the first post in this series for an overview of what I’m rambling on about here. On the evening of Thursday, … Continue reading