STORY
Part of the college experience is getting to know people who might be different from you. However, many tend to gravitate toward others like themselves. So when students are assigned to ask individuals what their problems are or what would make their lives better, they typically speak to their friends or those in their social circles, aka, people just like themselves.
The idea of customer discovery can be terrifying. How does one approach people they have never met and ask them probing questions about their needs and gains?
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ELP Blog
Juggling an Internship with Startup Aspirations
Blog Post by ELP Student Raul Dutta (Computer Science | Class of 2021) More than any profession, entrepreneurship has the most variable workload. This is…
What I learned interning at New York City’s fastest-growing startup
Blog Post by ELP Student Samay Shamdasani (Computer Science Engineering | Class of 2023) This past summer, I interned at Ramp, the financial automation platform…
Advice for Future Interns
Blog Post by ELP Student Sai Pavan Yerra (Computer Science | Class of 2022) Hello everyone my name is Sai Pavan Yerra, I am a…
Research and Faculty
U-Michigan to lead $15M Great Lakes region innovation hub
In an effort to nurture a regional innovation ecosystem and move more discoveries from the research lab to the real world, the National Science Foundation…
Students Engage with National Security for Credit
What if one of the following missions was assigned to you? Help an explosive ordnance disposal technician develop an effective method to identify obscured or…
Pandemic Response: Program Pivots to Virtual Platform
When the world began closing its doors in March and everything seemed to move online, several programs quickly found themselves needing to adapt and evolve…
Alumni Spotlight
An Innovative Team: 55 Years of Dixon and Carol Doll
University of Michigan alum and Center for Entrepreneurship supporter, Dixon Doll, received the 2021 National Venture Capital Association’s Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award. As…
Spilling the Industry Tea: The Importance of the Informational Interview
Build your network. Attend alumni mixers. Connect on LinkedIn. We’ve heard from friends, counselors, and mentors what we need to do to prepare for our…
Technology, Silicon Valley, and the Go Blue Connection: Kleiner Perkins Fellowship Alumni
Imagine a fellowship that includes a summer internship at a company like Airbnb, Coursera, Doordash, Handshake, Nextdoor, Pinterest, Slack, Uber with Tally, or Robinhood (just…