FLINT - The third annual Veteran Entrepreneurial Training Conference is scheduled for June 16 at the Lansing Community College, M-Tech Center and will focus on starting and funding a business, procuring state and federal contracts, and veteran benefits. Chris Holman, one of Lansing's best known civic leaders and entrepreneurs will be the keynote speaker. Rick
DETROIT ? TechTown Executive Director Randal Charlton said last month's two-day FastTrac To Success event was very successful, bringing hundreds of entrepreneur's to the downtown Detroit business incubator. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
DETROIT ? MitoStem, a TechTown tenant, won a $200,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to further develop its stem cell technology that can be used to grow many organs in the body. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
ANN ARBOR - The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Area Chambers of Commerce officially formed the new Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber on June 1. "We are proud of our new logo that symbolizes the two communities coming together and overlapping to cause a ripple effect throughout the county," said Diane Keller, Chamber President. ?We launch not
ANN ARBOR ? Doug Selby, owner of Meadowlark Builders, has been selected by Remodeling magazine to join the Remodeling Big50. The Big50 awards were presented at a gala dinner at the Remodeling Leadership Conference in Alexandria, Va., last month. Each year since 1986, the Remodeling Big50 inducts the owners of 50 remodeling companies that have
LANSING - Cloud Computing analyst, CloudHarmony, performed a comprehensive analysis of 20 Cloud Computing Vendors' CPU performance. Cloud Harmony benchmarked more than 150 different cloud server configurations focusing this round of testing specifically on raw CPU performance. After exhaustive analysis, Cloud Harmony determined Liquid Web's Storm On Demand's 48 GB Cloud Server to be the
EAST LANSING ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest is announcing the winner of its $100,000 SmartZone Award June 10 at Michigan State University, along with winners of cash prizes up to $40,000. The day-long event also will include a golf outing, networking event and MIT Enterprise Forum presentation, discussion groups, and elevator pitches and the results
MIDLAND - As part of the second annual entrepreneurial networking event of the region, the MidMichigan Innovation Center, more than 250 entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, and accredited investors and nearly 40 exhibitors came together May 27 at the Dow Diamond to celebrate entrepreneurship in Mid Michigan. The keynote address came from Dwight Carlson, Chairman
DETROIT - The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center (MI-SBTDC) will host information sessions in Detroit on June 8 and in Ann Arbor on June 9 to educate business owners and CEO's about the PeerSpectives Roundtable program. Tables are forming in Livonia, Troy, Ann Arbor and Detroit. Owners and CEOs of growing, second stage
LANSING - A new poll shows that Attorney General Mike Cox's television advertisements attacking U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra's record on federal spending appear to have eliminated Hoekstra's longstanding lead in the Republican primary and instead created a four-way statistical tie among four candidates, including Ann Arbor Venture Capitalist Rick Snyder. The survey, conducted by Public