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‘Be epic’: University of Michigan lecturer helps students with business start-up ideas
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Professor Eric Fretz poses outside his home in Ann Arbor on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Fretz’ entrepreneurial class has inspired students to start their own businesses. (Alie Skowronski/mlive.com) Alie Skowronski | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI – If someone would have told Eric Fretz that he would be back at the University of Michigan as a faculty member after graduating from UM in 1989, he would have told them they’re out of their mind.
Now, six college degrees later, Fretz teaches classes in UM’s psychology department, School of Education, College of Engineering and a core course for the entrepreneurship minor, where he asks his students to “do epic s ” in the form of business ideas, which have included flasks disguised as scrunchie hair ties, students driving to Ohio to get Waffle House for their peers and a toaster that prints picture