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Steve Blank assesses the startup culture in Ann Arbor, MI

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Michigan badly needs to have this debate. Steve Blank's presentation could represent a turning point. For too long IT has had to occupy the back seat to other "favored" industries in this state.

I'm the one who actually asked Steve the original question that night on what advice he'd have for Gov. Snyder. Also followed up with him afterward and I am overjoyed he further elaborated on his blog. We can only hope the governor is listening.

The Business and Engineering Schools do a pretty good job of offering entrepreneur resources to students, but sadly, the initiative has not spread to the largest department on campus: the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Support from LSA and additional course offerings to the students of LSA would accelerate the entrepreneurship initiative immensely

Hello Michigan, Governor Snyder: I hope someone is hearing this. It needs to happen in this state or we'll spend the next century becoming more irrelevant than we already are.

antidaily: I'm in Lansing, but would definitely attend an A2-Detroit HN group and have some people I think I could convince to come along. E-mail me.

Though it's not a HN group I would suggest attending the next meeting of Hackers and Hustlers which will be on April 20th at 7 pm in the Business college complex, Room N130, on the MSU campus. They normally have presentations by three companies which has included one YCombinator alumnus in the past. Best info for this group is from the Facebook group where quite a lively discussion is going on over Steve Blank's post.

Also in Lansing there's a Coffee House coders on the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month in the Second Gear Coworking space in North Lansing at 7 pm http://workatthegear.com/

Cool. Will do.

I would love to answer anyone's questions about what's happening around the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor!

I lead a project in MPowered, the student entrepreneurship org here at UM, I study CS in the College of Engineering, am a regular A2NewTech attendee, and am generally pretty familiar with the ecosystem here.

Sidenote: Is there a Ann Arbor-Detroit HN group? If not, anyone interested in starting one?

I'm a student in Ann Arbor, and I'd love to get an HN meetup group going in the area. It could possibly coincide with a2newtech.org.

Ditto that

Good stuff. Putting together something - will announce here once its ready. Thanks.

Further discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419281

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