ANN ARBOR One of the states leading entrepreneurial training groups the Ann Arbor IT Zone has hired an entrepreneur as managing director with a portfolio to deliver much more valued added services to its members. Diane Durance, who co-founded and sold a publishing company and a long distance network design business, began her new job
WHITMORE LAKE Distributed Computing Consulting Inc. has added a new wrinkle to its marketing plan by soliciting companies to participate in a Best Practices study that analyzes what makes a project successful. DCCI is seeking volunteers to perform interviews and share stories of success for its Project Management Appreciative Inquiry into effective skills and practices
LANSING - More than half of Michigan small business owners (54 percent) believe President Bush is the presidential candidate who would be more supportive of policies that help small business, says the latest Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM) Small Business Barometer quarterly survey. Nineteen percent say they believe John Kerry would be more supportive
LANSING Thirty five percent of small business owners in Michigan say they had an increase in sales during the second quarter of this year, the highest level of small business sales increases in the past four years, the Small Business Association of Michigan reported Wednesday in its Small Business Barometer. The second quarter increase was
ANN ARBOR You could call last weeks list of money winners from the Michigan Tri-Corridor Fund a proof of concept for the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs Quest business-plan writing contest. Five of the 22 winners were winners in GLEQ. GLEQ teams among Michigan's Technology Tri-Corridor selections include: SensiGen Corporation, GLEQ Grand Prize Winner (Spring '04), GLEQ
ANN ARBOR Good news continues on the Michigan Venture Capital front. EDF Ventures in Ann Arbor said Wednesday that a San Diego based wireless company in which EDF invested $5.2 million was sold for $98 million, more than doubling EDFs investment. Zyray Wireless will be acquired by Broadcom, a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
DETROIT Ten business professionals were named the East Michigan area winners of Ernst & Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, including three Michigan technology entrepreneurs. Josh Linkner, a long time Michigan technology entrepreneur despite his young age, was named Realizing Business Potential for ePrize.Com, an interactive promotion agency. Roger Newton of Esperion Therapeutics was named
ANN ARBOR - The New Enterprise Forums July 15 program will provide case studies of unusual entrepreneurial starts-ups and the lessons they learned. The audience will hear from clever entrepreneurs who have developed, patented, and sold uncommon products from disposable undergarments, to an all- purpose device for opening medicine containers, to a "Frankfurter Converter" that
KALAMAZOO If you have a technology or life sciences company that will soon need seed funding, Southwest Michigan First has a forum that could get you that money. Its called Venture Tuesday. Each month, three to four emerging businesses present their business plan and marketing strategy to an audience of 75 to 100 venture capitalists,
GRAND RAPIDS Nine business professionals were named the West Michigan area winners of Ernst & Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, including software developer SageStone Consulting Founder Keith Brophy. Brophy was named Realizing Business Potential for its work as a Microsoft Gold Partner and DOT NET development pioneer. Last month Sagestone beat out a field