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MPowered Entrepreneurship is a non-profit student organization focused on fostering student entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan. In addition to bridging the gap between disciplines, MPowered fosters collaboration with outside groups to create further entrepreneurial interactions between students, faculty, alumni, industry and the outside world. HISTORY MPowered was spawned from the College of Engineering’s Committee 

The Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) is a Michigan Engineering venture that empowers students, faculty and staff to pursue entrepreneurial achievements that improve people’s lives, drive the economy and help innovators bridge the gap between inventor and the business that is enabled by these breakthroughs. The Center grew out of the College’s Committee on Entrepreneurial Environment 

Never Get a “Real” Job, a book by serial entrepreneur and internationally syndicated small business columnist Scott Gerber, is now available everywhere books are sold, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Books a Million, 800 CEO Read and IndieBound. With over 100 million young people unemployed and underemployed worldwide, Never Get a “Real” Job offers 

Cambridge IGCSE Enterprise is an exciting new syllabus from University of Cambridge International Examinations that brings the world of business into the classroom. It introduces learners to the skills behind what it takes to build a successful enterprise and gives a practical grasp of: * how to set up and run a new enterprise * 

A new Junior Achievement survey found that more than half of teen respondents (51 percent) would like to own their own business someday. However, in the face of a prolonged economic recovery, many teens fear the risk of starting a business venture. Of those polled, 74 percent identified risk (39 percent) and failure (35 percent)