ROYAL OAK - After taking the holiday off, we’re live in-studio tonight with all four finalists from Hatch Detroit for episode 161 of our podcast from the Podcast Detroit studios. We’re also just over a week away from our Pink Slip Party at the Majestic Theater and we’re all locked and loaded for it, the
LANSING - Michael Rogers, vice president communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks about the keys to a successful startup operation with business author Herby Fabius - an entrepreneur, social media expert, blogger, and podcaster. He founded BillionSuccess.com, a startup interview site where he shares weekly founder interviews. To listen, click on https://www.sbam.org/Resources/tabid/97/ArtMID/2980/ArticleID/2524/Learn-how-to-be-a-successful-startup.aspx
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation, previously focused on metro Detroit, has expanded to West Michigan as part of its mission to inspire and grow women and minorities in technology throughout the state. The MCWT Foundation’s West Michigan mission is sponsored by Meijer, Open Systems Technologies, Gordon Food Services and
ROYAL OAK - Amanda Lewan, co-founder of co-working space Bamboo Detroit, talks about her new “pop” up version in East Detroit in this episode of M2 TechCast. Bamboo East will exist until mid November inside MASH Detroit on the east side of Detroit, a three-month try out to judge how well it will be received
ROYAL OAK - Don Carpenter, water expert from Lawrence Technological University, discusses green water infrastructure and what it could mean for cities like Flint in this episode of M2 TechCast. Green infrastructure is Nature’s way of handling storm water runoff. If lakes, streams, and oceans do not realize we have developed the land adjacent to
ROYAL OAK - Anu Gopalakrishan, Vice President of TiE Detroit, talks about the TiE-Autonebula Connected Car, Mobility Competition for Startups and the upcoming TiECon Midwest Conference October 27-28. TiECon Midwest Conference will be held at the Henry, the former Ritz Carlton, and it will focus on connected transport. TiE is looking for six finalists who
ROYAL OAK - Michael Rogers, Vice President of Communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, joins M2 TechCast co-hosts Mike Brennan and Matt Roush to discuss his innovative ways to reach small business through social media. SBAM just recently started a video program on Mondays at 2 pm through Facebook video. But he also
EAST LANSING - Anderson Economic Group LLC, a boutique consultancy founded in Michigan in 1996, announced Tuesday it will open a new office in New York City in October. New York will join existing Anderson Economic Group offices in East Lansing (headquarters), Chicago, and Istanbul, Turkey. “The timing of our expansion into New York is
ANN ARBOR - Spotting a glitch on the factory floor in real time - and reconfiguring around it - are the goals of a new $4 million project led by University of Michigan engineering researchers that aims to increase factory productivity and American competitiveness - and fend off cyberattacks. Modern advanced manufacturing plants hold hundreds
HOLLAND - An underwater drone? Really. Three recent graduates of Hope College in Holland have built an HD underwater drone prototype that’s easy to use, highly portable, and fully modular, all for under $600. That's less than half the price of its closest competition. The three 20-somethings this week launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to
