U-M wants its students to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | Source: Crain's Detroit Business
The University of Michigan wants its students to think less like students and more like businessmen (and women) as part of its 1,000 Pitches contest.

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University of Michigan's MPowered Entrepreneurship, an engineering student group, is challenging students campuswide to think like an entrepreneur with its annual “1,000 Pitches” competition.

In its second year, the competition, running through Nov. 20, asks students to pitch new products and business ideas through a one- to three-minute video uploaded to the 1,000 Pitches” Web site.

The premise of the competition is to get the world out about entrepreneurship and MPowered,” said Lauren Leland, MPowered president and a junior at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

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