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Eric Jorgenson has notebooks with several million dollars scribbled on the pages.

The business and economics junior carries pen and pad wherever he goes, and whenever he thinks of the next best business venture he pulls out the notebook.

Jorgenson, who will co-direct The Hatch, an entrepreneurial incubator for students to be located at 325 E. Grand River Ave., is just one of many minds East Lansing and MSU are attempting to tap into as the city pushes entrepreneurship.

“There’s a common consensus of being sick of being considered a rust belt automotive, has-been sort of town, and that’s not what we are,” said Jorgenson, who started a bamboo clothing company called GoBoo Clothing.

“There’s a lot of young influence driving it into the right places and trying to bring Michigan up.”

To read the full, original article click on this link: The State News : From recession to reinvention

Author: Zack Colman