DETROIT ? TiE Detroit is cohosting an interactive Growth Strategy Workshop with Raj Vattikuti at the Engineering Society of Detroit to help you kick start your stagnant business revenues. Your company top line has been stagnant for the last 3 years? What do you do next? How do you redefine & expand your addressable market?
LANSING - Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder made his 2007 and 2008 tax returns public on Friday, proving that as expected he's got some serious money in the bank, but doesn't have the massive wealth of 2006 GOP nominee Dick DeVos. Snyder, who dumped $2.7 million into his campaign early on, continues the trend of
HOLLAND - Do you have a product idea that you would like to develop? Looking carefully over all the details of product development can be complicated and confusing. Trying to understand it along can be difficult. Join our special class which will help you navigate through this process. This class will introduce you to the
ANN ARBOR ? More than 65 Midwestern and Coastal Investment Firms were represented at the 29th annual Michigan Growth Capital Symposium on May 11-12. The MGCS provided them an opportunity to connect with the "Best of the Midwest's" entrepreneurs, startups and emerging growth companies that are actively searching for partners and funding. The Symposium included
KALAMAZOO - Bridget Lorenz Lemberg is a Forensic Toxicologist with more than 20 years of toxicology and pharmacology experience. She is also the founder and owner of one of the fastest growing biotech companies in west Michigan. In 2005, she started Forensic Fluids Laboratories, a woman-owned biotech company that specializes in oral fluid drug testing
LANSING - If Congress fails to approve $525 million in Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage funds to assist with Medicaid costs, cuts would not fall on Medicaid, but other general fund programs, a top Medicaid official said. Steve Fitton, the state director of Medicaid, said the state will have to look elsewhere for cuts because federal
PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh-based investment firm, iNetworks Advisors Inc., has announced a $20 million fund to invest in startup and early-stage health and life science companies in Southeast Michigan and Windsor. The fund, iNetworksMichigan Fund LP, which already has about $15 million in commitments. It also has appointed Greg Auner, director of the Smart Sensors
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U. S. Small Business Administration is now offering a new set of three export-oriented podcasts offering valuable information on issues and challenges small business exporters may find when dealing with specific countries. The podcasts, featuring interviews with business representatives from Uganda, Cameroon and Bahrain, are part of a comprehensive effort by
WARREN - Funding is a necessary and important part of the success of any small business. Asking for funding can also be one of the most intimidating parts of running a small business, and often times, is unavoidable. The MI-SBTDC understands this point and is working with small business owners to make that approach a
TROY - Automation Alley has invested $500,000 in two Southeast Michigan technology companies ? one in software and the other in alternative energy - to help them develop new and innovative technologies and spur company growth. "The availability of seed funding for small businesses is a critical factor in the viability of a new company,"