GRAND RAPIDS - Anna Bier joined the MI-SBTDC as a technology business consultant in April 2002. Bier brings extensive experience in engineering research and development, as well as in various aspects of creating and running many divisions of a high-tech business enterprise. Prior to joining the MI-SBTDC, she spent seven years as the Chief Financial
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - That?s a question worth pondering by every entrepreneur who has poured his savings and his soul into a new business that will benefit the world, and also make him rich. Suppose your company needs capital in order to grow, or outmaneuver competition, or engineer a new product? Will the investor who steps
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest continues its fall program for entrepreneurs with more business commercialization topics by presenting a ?Go To Market Sales Strategy? seminar November 8th at the DeVos Center at Grand Valley State University. David Brenner, Managing Partner of IdeaWorks , an entrepreneurial senior executive with almost 30 years domestic
ANN ARBOR ? Podcasting expert Ron Suarez of MediaRica will host the Top Michigan Women In Computing gala Saturday and share the stage with Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow. The gala is the primary fundraiser each year for the Association for Women in Computing Ann Arbor Chapter, which uses the gala to pay for scholarships given
KALAMAZOO ? The next Kalamazoo Venture Tuesday November 1 will focus on Michigan Success Stories - Esperion Therapeutics and Afmedica, Inc. - Where are they now? The moderator will be Mina Sooch, Apjohn Ventures, General Partner and Afmedica, co-founder. Panelists will include: Roger Newton, co-founder, Esperion Therapeutics Michael Pape, co-founder, Esperion Therapeutics Charlie Bisgaier, co-founder,
GRAND RAPIDS - Bridge Street Capital Partners, through its affiliate Bridge Street Capital Fund, has made an investment in caramel apple company Affy Tapple. The amount was not disclosed. Affy Tapple is a leading producer and distributor of caramel dipped apples to the grocery and foodservice industry through its Affy Tapple brand, and gourmet caramel
ANN ARBOR ? The University of Michigan added another piece to its technology commercialization program this week when it announced the Frankel Commercialization Fellows, which could pay student teams of entrepreneurs, researchers and scientists up to $100,000 in pre seed capital to get their dream companies ready for angel investors. The Frankel Commercialization Fellows program
DURHAM, N.H. - The national angel investor market made $11 billion in new investments in the first half of 2005, slightly less than during the same six months of 2004, but on track to match the $22.5 billion posted in all of 2004, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New
ANN ARBOR ? The 25th anniversary of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium will be in Ypsilanti in 2006, rather than its usual home at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Call it growing pains. The U-M Business School is expanding in 2006 and the venue won?t be available for a major showcase that
ANN ARBOR ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest will hold an Entrepreneur?s Roundtable on Business Commercialization on October 25 at the new Michigan Information Technology Center. Tim Mayleben, Managing Director, Esperance BioVentures and former Chief Operating Officer of Esperion Therapeutics, will facilitate the roundtable discussion among registered active and aspiring entrepreneurs. Mayleben will relate his