ANN ARBOR ? If you want to get the chance to win thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars for your Michigan startup business, you're going to want to compete in the Fall 2010 Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Business Plan competition. Registration opens Aug. 23. In June, GLEQ presented $250,000 in prize money to dozens
SOUTHFIELD - The Michigan Council of Women In Technology offer its Connect-Net Network Forum Aug. 10 at Lawrence Technological University. Guest speaker will be Maureen Monte, an IBM Consultant. Feeling stuck in a technical corner? Frustrated by internal walls or external expectations that hinder your ability to achieve your fullest potential? Unsure of your strengths
HOLLAND - Do you have a product idea that you would like to develop? Looking carefully over all the details of product development can be complicated and confusing. Trying to understand it along can be difficult. Join our special class which will help you navigate through this process. This class will introduce you to the
ANN ARBOR ? More than 65 Midwestern and Coastal Investment Firms were represented at the 29th annual Michigan Growth Capital Symposium on May 11-12. The MGCS provided them an opportunity to connect with the "Best of the Midwest's" entrepreneurs, startups and emerging growth companies that are actively searching for partners and funding. The Symposium included
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U. S. Small Business Administration is now offering a new set of three export-oriented podcasts offering valuable information on issues and challenges small business exporters may find when dealing with specific countries. The podcasts, featuring interviews with business representatives from Uganda, Cameroon and Bahrain, are part of a comprehensive effort by
WARREN - Funding is a necessary and important part of the success of any small business. Asking for funding can also be one of the most intimidating parts of running a small business, and often times, is unavoidable. The MI-SBTDC understands this point and is working with small business owners to make that approach a
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK will kick off its fourth Shifting Gears program this fall. Applications to the 2010 Shifting Gears program are due on September 3. Leading up to the fall Shifting Gears program, SPARK also announced five information sessions beginning August 3. Shifting Gears, an intensive four-month program, provides professional career coaching
DETROIT - On July 19, administrators from Wayne State University's Computing & Information Technology office and the Office of the Vice President for Research will be recognized at the Campus Technology 2010 conference hosted by Campus Technology magazine. Wayne State is one of 11 Campus Technology Innovators award winners, chosen from nearly 500 entries. Wayne
TRAVERSE CITY ? Plex Systems is trying to build its brand among auto suppliers and the journalists that cover them at the Center For Automotive Research's Management Briefing Seminars next month. The event typically draws thousands of auto executives from supplier companies hoping to rub elbows with their counterparts at the big automakers, such as
ANN ARBOR - Sometimes it's luck and sometimes it's timing ? and yet other times it's the sheer genius of a wacky idea. Join the New Enterprise Forum July 15 to hear from a panel of creative, inventive entrepreneurs who have discovered and capitalized upon unusual or untapped market needs to build successful businesses. Panelists