MILFORD - It looked like a giant oblong egg rolling rapidly down the test track at the General Motor Milford Proving Grounds on Aug. 24. But it actually was a recumbent speedbike, from team AeroVelo, performing aerodynamic tests in partnership with GMC in preparation for the Human-Powered Speed Challenge next month. The speedbike, called Eta,
MIDLAND - Join Chris Moultrup, Program Directorat MidMichigan Innovation Center and experienced entrepreneur,as he hostsa Business Model Canvasworkshop Sept. 1. At this HANDS-ON workshop, participants will use a strategizing tool among entrepreneurs that will help you understand how to successfully operate your business by learning the following nine building blocks of the Business Model Canvas.
SOUTHFIELD - TiE Detroit on Sept. 10 is hosting a seminar at Lawrence Technological University focused on what drives your customers' choices? Gary Gigot and Joe Urbany will explore: How are you different from competitors in ways important to customers? 3-circle process - the basis for more than 1,000 growth strategy projects with executives at
TROY - Award finalists for the Automation Alley 15th Annual Awards Gala have been selected, and online voting will be open to the public until Sept. 18 to help determine a winner in each of five categories. Automation Alley, Michigan's largest technology business association, celebrates Southeast Michigan's thriving tech economy each year at its awards
TROY - Davenport University is offering a 20 percent tuition discount to employees who work for organizations that are members of Automation Alley. If the organization is also a member of a Chamber of Commerce, those employees will also qualify for up to $1,500 per year in scholarship funding. In addition, the application fee is
BOSTON - A Michigan State University College of Engineering professor who developed break through solar cell technology and a University of Michigan Ph.D. candidate in computer science who developed a scanning system to spot security flaws online both earned places on the 2015 Innovators Under 35 list published by the MIT Technology Review. Lunt, 33,
DETROIT - What happens when you have four world-class accelerators in one location? Demo Day turns into Demo Week. On September 9 to 11, Detroit Venture Partners,Techstars Mobility, Coolhouse Labs, and DesaiAcceleratorwill collaborate to host Demo Week. Each organizationhasattracted companies from across the globe to join anintensive program designed to give them thefoundation togrow and
DETROIT - Welcome to Michipreneur.Com's new website, a new platform for entrepreneurs. Whether you're a freelancer, an artist, a tech entrepreneur or an investor, we hope this new platform better connects you to activities and information in your great state. We've opened up the site to be a community driven site. You can now submit
DETROIT - The Internet Advisor radio show on Aug. 8 launched a new website look-and-feel that producer and co-host Foster Braun says stepped his show forward into the 21stCentury with a double whammy. During the taping of its weekly podcast and live broadcast on WJR-AM Detroit, the longest running locally produced computer show in
DETROIT - Carolyn Cassin remembers Detroit in 2009 as most of us do: devastated. A business women who had successfully grown and led a company public, she learned everything about business from the city she saw now distraught and suffering. What could one woman do? She could help to spark a movement that now financially