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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991. Tony was a fresh U of Michigan grad and part of a small team that worked on low-level software and hardware to develop prototypes of PDAs (the ancient predecessors of what is now an iPhone) that companies like Sony, Panasonic and Motorola would manufacture.

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One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan

Steve Blank

I spent a few days in March in Ann Arbor Michigan as a guest of Professor Thomas Zurbuchen , Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs, and Doug Neal , Director of Center for Entrepreneurship in the Engineering School at the University of Michigan. Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Sam earned a BA in Communications Arts and Sciences from Michigan State University. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. Prior to joining Google, Sam worked at CNET, The Wall Street Journal Interactive and Ziff Davis and has over 15 years of experience selling media.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I would work full-time making software all day, and at night I would go home and give ski instructions here in Michigan. Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs. I actually had this problem.

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Six Rebellious Beliefs That Can Change The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Known for its joy-making philosophy, Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has made Inc. He is the co-founder and CEO of Switch & Shift, an advocacy and consultancy focused on the human side of business, and host of the popular Work That Matters podcast. magazine’s fastest growing U.S. companies list multiple times.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

Chairman Alan Todd was formerly Founder and CEO of KnowledgePlanet, the largest cloud-based learning management system, which was acquired by a private equity consortium; and Founder and CEO of KnowledgeSoft, the largest IT training company in the mid-Atlantic region, which was acquired by Technicsource. Grovo solves this problem.