So there I was; my first board meeting as the CEO of the company I co-founded was going to start in about 45 minutes and I was still in my car in the parking lot reviewing my presentation one more time.  Actually I was splitting my time between reviewing my slide deck and frantically flipping…

Now that I’m working at a startup again (the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan is very much a startup) I’m finding an old habit starting to emerge.  You see, when I’m in startup mode and I’m heading into the office I will often not fill my car all the way up with…

It seems like once a week someone mentions to me that it is really critical that we find the next Google. “What Michigan really needs…” (They’ll usually start) “Is another company like Google and then we will have achieved success”. I’m sorry, but to me that is not how entrepreneurship works. I seriously doubt that…