Can these students’ inventions save Michigan?

austin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:35:54 +0000

We’ve all got them — those ideas that we know, just know, would make a fortune if we could get them to a store shelf.

Now, some University of Michigan students are hoping to tap into that genius. MPowered Entrepreneurship is challenging students to make their pitches — whether for ideas they’ve mulled for years or an unexpected flash of brilliance.

“It’s ‘Hey, you’re waking up at 3 a.m. with an idea. What is it?’ ” said MPowered president Lauren Leland, 20, of West Bloomfield.

The spiels range from the intriguing (sidewalks that capture kinetic energy from pedestrians) to the…

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University of Michigan’s 1,000 Pitches competition taps entrepreneurial movement

austin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:44:34 +0000

For Lauren Leland, president of the University of Michigan’s MPowered Entrepreneurship club, entrepreneurialism needs to be more than just a core focus for the university. It needs to be a cultural value.

That’s why the group is sponsoring the second annual 1,000 Pitches competition – a campus-wide solicitation for entrepreneurial ideas of all sorts….

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1000 Pitches

Can these students’ inventions save Michigan?

University of Michigan’s 1,000 Pitches competition taps entrepreneurial movement