Entrepreneurship Hour

Want to learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur and get credits doing it? Consider registering for Entrepreneurship Hour, a casual, engaging seminar that the university offers each semester. These classes are open to students of all majors and are only one-credit. The MPowered team hangs out before and after each event, so come meet the team and see what we're up to!

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The following schedule represents the Winter 2009 Semester.

ENGR-407-001: Entrepreneurship Hour

Class #: 46190
Fridays 3:00-4:00 pm with following reception.
Room: STAMPS Auditorium

This seminar is designed to expose students to entrepreneurship through interaction with business leaders, venture capitalists, and attorneys, as well as individuals involved in emerging business models, new venture creation, and technology commercialization. Some of the smartest thinkers of our time come to share their knowhow on the latest, most diverse practices on legal, financial, and other management issues. In addition to start-up company CEOs and VPs who spend time discussing their own spin on entrepreneurship, student entrepreneurs have an opportunity to share their own experiences and discuss their successes.

The lectures include leading entrepreneurs and executives, technology innovators, experts from the financial markets, and others who support the entrepreneurial infrastructure. They come from all different backgrounds and vocations from fashion to technology. It's one hour of all entrepreneurship and more. After the seminar, every speaker hangs around after the talk, making millionaire CEOs as easy to talk to as your next door neighbor.

Winter 2009 Speaker Schedule

DateNameCompany Name
1/16/09Lee HessSerial Entrepreneur: DirectTV, Wendys
1/23/09Paul SaginawFounder of Zingermans
1/30/09James BakerUM Innovator Award Winner
2/6/09Phil WilmingtonFounder of People Soft
2/13/09Frank BaconPlanned Innovation Institute
3/6/09Art MarksVenture Capitalist
3/13/09Carolyn CoquilletteFounder of Luscious Garage
3/20/09John BarfieldEntrepreneur
3/27/09Tim WestergrenFounder of Pandora
4/3/09Phil PowersMichigan Entrepreneur in Media
4/10/09Richard AuhllCircon Corporation
4/17/09Joshua PokempnerEntrepreneur Toy Company

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ENGR-490-002: Venture Capital

Course #: 26400
Monday through Friday, February 9th – February 20th at 6-7:30 pm
Room: DOW 1010

This course will prepare students to identify and evaluate commercial opportunities for emerging technologies. The emphasis will be on the design and evaluation of business models and on the methods necessary for rapid yet rigorous analysis of these models. Projects will span multiple disciplines and markets. The Center for Entrepreneurship, through its interaction with students and faculty, will tap into a ever widening network of entrepreneurs and experts in the field. This will enable us to develop preliminary business models and evaluate possible commercial opportunities with the ultimate objective of selecting promising opportunities for commercial development.

Students will work in interdisciplinary teams yet are also expected to contribute to the success of the other teams. Reflecting the cross-disciplinary and integrative nature of the work, this course will be taught concurrently by three faculty members, who are, in part, active Venture Capitalists, including the Ann Arbor based RPM Ventures group (http://www.rpmvc.com/).