TROY - The Entrepreneurial Initiative of Southeast Michigan will host a forum on July 17 that will feature an elevator-pitch competition featuring three emerging technology companies that will be judged by a panel of private equity finance professionals. The Forum will also include a keynote presentation by a successful local entrepreneur, who highlights the ups
TROY - MITechNews.Com readers can sponsor the September Celebrate Michigan Expo and receive a $50 discount on exhibit tables. The deadline for the deal is June 30. Sponsorships are available and MITechNews readers receive a $50.00 discount on $300.00 exhibit tables priced for readers at $250.00. The Celebrate Michigan Expo is Sept. 29 at the
TRAVERSE CITY - Robert Ochtel, the founder of Traverse Angels, an early stage, Angel investment group, will be the featured guest on the Traverse City Chamber�??s monthly Entrepreneur Focus Program July 16. The program will discuss Angel Investing in the greater Traverse City region. The show is hosted by Ron Jolly and broadcasted on WTCM
TRAVERSE CITY - Last month's organizational meeting for the Traverse Angels drew a dozen potential investors. Founder Robert Ochtel said he's so happy with the response, he may launch two more angel investing groups in the Northern Michigan region. �??I�??m looking at developing other groups in other parts of Michigan, but I�??m not yet ready
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor volunteers are pulling together what they're calling Startup Weekend - 54 hours of practical hands-on learning about starting up a business where there is no agenda and what companies come out of the other end of the process is anyone's guess. From June 20-22, this group think experiment will give
CLARKSTON �?? The Michigan Council of Women in Technology are hosting a golf outing on July 22 to benefit the MCWT Foundation. It will be held at Pine Knob Golf Club. There are three ways to register. 1) As a Sponsor including providing gifts for prizes 2) Participate in CIO Auction and golf with a
MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan could leverage more of its infrastructure funding by partnering with the private sector in building those projects, a number of speakers told those gathered for the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference. Given the number of such projects already in place around the country, the templates needed for legislation and contracts
GRAND RAPIDS - Chris Holman, Michigan's Small Business Advocate, will be hosting a small business forum in Grand Rapids on June 17 from Noon to 2:00 p.m. at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. Holman is seeking critical and extensive input directly from Michigan's small business community on successes, issues, challenges, and resource needs of business.
SAN FRANCSICO, Ca. - Small business owner optimism continues on a five-quarter decline, according to the recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey conducted in April. The Index score dropped to 48, the lowest level reported since the survey's inception in August 2003, when the score was 69. The most recent results represent a 35-point
GRAND RAPIDS - The focus of the June meeting for AimWest, a Grand Rapids area technology marketing group, will be on West Michigan's burgeoning film industry with State Rep. Bill Huizinga, sponsor of the legislation that provided tax incentives to film crews to shoot in Michigan. Rep. Huizinga will discuss: The incentives offered to film