U-M Unconference bridges Ann Arbor-Detroit entrepreneurial gap

An invite-only event brings out the region's top entrepreneurs in an unique audience-guided getting-to-know-you (and your topic of choice) format.
 
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"The premise of the Entrepreneurs Engage unconference held at the University of Michigan yesterday may sound a little hokey to the uninitiated: The audience suggests breakout-group topics, and then folks spend about 45 minutes in each discussion—or they don’t. “You vote with your feet,” said emcee (and Xconomist) Rich Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations. “Go to a station, contribute, and if you lose interest, find another station. Whoever shows up at the station are the right people who are supposed to be there, and it ends when it ends.”"
 
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