KALAMAZOO ? Southwest Michigan First, following the lead set last month by Oakland County's Automation Alley, has signed a three-year pact with the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest to provide program support and a $10,000 award to a team from Southwest Michigan competing in the statewide business-plan writing contest. The $10,000 will be awarded each Fall
ANN ARBOR - Serial entrepreneur Jim Price, founder of CompanyCrafters, will explain on Thursday how start ups can generate high-impact marketing at the next training session in the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan writing contest. Effective Marketing, part of the GLEQ's Business Commercialization program for entrepreneurs,addresses the issue that causes more technology startups to fail
CLEVELAND - Tim Biro, Managing Director of the Ohio Innovation Fund, thinks the investment climate in Ohio is significantly better than it was when he and his partners first created the $12.5 million fund in 1997. ?A lot of academic institutions have put a lot of effort into making tech transfer work better,?? he said.
ANN ARBOR - Dr. Geoff Duyk, who manages a $500 million venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, thinks he knows how to help Michigan pull out of its economic freefall. If the trapped assets at the state's major corporations could be freed and commercialized, they could become the catalyst that would lead Michigan into a
ANN ARBOR ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest will hold an entrepreneurial training session April 27 that will give entrepreneurs insight into how investors think...and how they might get into their wallets. Sources of Capital and the Investor Perspective is scheduled for April 27 from 6 ? 8 pm at SPARK Central in Ann Arbor,
GRAND RAPIDS - Charitable giving should become a required cost from which you can expect a measurable value in return a panel of experts will argue April 28 at the next Fourth Friday breakfast networking event hosted by The Right Place program's Technology Council. Speakers Al Adyniec of Performance Edge, Ken Soper of Soper Taber
TROY - Money Finders Inc. can help entrepreneurs find early-stage funding for their new ventures as well as find a rewarding investment opportunity for qualified investors. Entrepreneurs. The Money Finders helps entrepreneurs find angel funding and other forms of early-stage funding for products and services with success potential and propel them from concept or pre-production
EAST LANSING - If you want to read the complete list of Michigan 50 Companies to Watch 2006, read on. All 50 are named below. Ann Arbor - Adaptive Materials Inc. Ann Arbor - Leade Health Inc. Ann Arbor - Menlo Innovations LLC Ann Arbor - Project Advantage Ann Arbor - Sensicore Inc. Auburn Hills
ANN ARBOR ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest will sponsor seven additional entrepreneurial training sessions before its June business plan competition awards ceremony, giving GLEQ 14 networking events during its spring cycle. All sessions are open and free to the public as part of GLEQ's Business Commercialization program for entrepreneurs. The new events are a
ANN ARBOR ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest has added two new Innovation Awards, sponsored by Automation Alley and NextEnergy worth some $25,000, and announced registration for the spring cycle will close next week on the business-plan writing competition that now has a purse of more than $100,000. The deadline for registered teams to submit