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…
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…
Female Entrepreneurs At U-M Continue As Leaders And Best
The month of March hosts International Women’s Day and we wanted to take the time to showcase just a few of the many women in…
Ditch the Startup. Intern at an Accelerator.
Guest blog from ELP student: Tyler Laredo University of Michigan ’18 | Computer Science Engineering Working for a startup is the hot new deal….
How Michigan is looking for–and creating–opportunities for economic growth
Guest blog from ELP student: Connor Borrego @borregosauced University of Michigan ‘17 | LS&A Political Science & Entrepreneurship Michiganders and their businesses touch many fields….
The Detroit I Didn’t Know
By DTrek participant Courtney Tatum Entrepreneurship: it was a word that I felt fairly confident describing in a textbook definition sort-of-way. And sure, I had watched…
For Class Credit: Coding, Hacking, Prototyping and More
By Kate Toporski, CFE Content Development Intern Build a prototype. Code an app. Create a 3D model. Experiment with UI design. All of these things are possible by…
Alumni Profile: Jon Bowerman (B.S. ’04)
His path to entrepreneurship has been shaped by $20, a freshman engineering presentation, and an episode of South Park. This VP of Product Development and…
From Autonomous Car to Airframe Inspection, Discovery Channel Exclusive Video Features Leading U-M Faculty Research
January 15, 2016 – Think Uber, but with low-speed, driverless cars that can shuttle people quickly and safely around college campuses across the nation. Edwin Olson,…
Making Your Trip to the West the Best: 5 Must-Dos for Your Bay Area Immersion
By Kate Toporski, CFE Content Development Intern Never mind that “winter is coming.” I choose to focus on the much more inviting and inspiring tagline:…