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From failing MSU project to ‘zero chance this will fail’ on Shark Tank

Tanvi Gadamsetti and Madhav Aggarwal said they failed their initial class project at Michigan State University as sophomores a few years ago. “It was the lowest grade in the class,” Aggarwal told City Pulse. This week, they ended up in tears on national TV as they pitched their product, a new grippy material being proven as shoelaces, and made a $300,000 deal with two investors on Shark Tank.

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Bill would expand Michigan’s bottle deposit law while some want to abolish it

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Michigan State fraternity ‘pledge master’ faces decade in prison for alleged hazing death

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Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to unseal confidential utility contract

LANSING — A lawsuit filed by a local environmental advocacy group - centering on a long-term agreement between the Lansing Board of Water & Light and a multi-billion-dollar electric vehicle …