Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
DETROIT - The Association for Women in Communications-Detroit will host a highly engaging panel discussion entitled “Fiercely Divided - Ways to Move Forward” February 16. The event, which runs from 5:30 to 8 pm, will be held at Sila Italian Dining & Pizza, located at 4033 12 Mile Road in Berkley. Panelists from both sides
GLENVIEW, IL - Some 85 percent of small business owners are optimistic about the economy in 2017 marking a high water mark since May 2015, based on the SurePayroll Scorecard survey. The highest business optimism last year was 78 percent. What’s more, 66 percent of small business owners expect to be profitable in 2017, with
LANSING - Michael Rogers, communications officer for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with Shri Thanedar, Ph.D, founder of Avomeen Analytical Services in Ann Arbor, to learn how he bounced back from total business failure and is now sharing the financial gains of his business success with his employees. To listen, click on https://www.sbam.org/Resources/tabid/97/ArtMID/2980/ArticleID/2709/Entrepreneurial-lessons-on-bouncing-back-from-business-failure.aspx
ROYAL OAK - Tember Shea, director of the Inforum inGAGE, talks about how these training sessions can help women entrepreneurs rapidly grow their businesses. inGAGE provides confidential peer-to-peer founders forum where emerging second-stage entrepreneurs assess their companies’ operations, management, finances, and personnel to examine strengths and challenges. Through this process, participants can identify and formulate
KALAMAZOO - Kalamazoo Candle Company earned the coveted Makers’ Mart title Thursday at Catalyst University, a daylong leadership event annually hosted by Southwest Michigan First. Kalamazoo Candle Company was selected by the 2,500 event attendees from a pool of four finalists—all regional product makers based in Southwest Michigan. The company wins $5,000 in cash and
ANN ARBOR - This week the Desai Accelerator announced its next round of startups and its new managing director, U-M alumna Angela Kujava, formerly the director of innovation for the global application development firm Logic Solutions. Angel has more than a decade of experience working with entrepreneurs, will build on the Desai program. The next five
GRAND RAPIDS – A recent meeting with longtime Open Systems Technologies client Herman Miller provided the inspiration that led to a strategic partnership between OST and leaders of the Grand Rapids office of Sweden-based Configura, maker of space-planning software. The collaboration agreement calls for OST to serve as a formal Implementation Partner for Configura’s CET
GRAND RAPIDS - To help Detroit residents get access to the transit options they need to travel safely and efficiently to school, work, healthcare and play, Ford is calling on developers to create new apps that help commuters get around efficiently and safely to all the places they need to go. The "Go Detroit Challenge",
DETROIT - Creative Entrepreneurs now have a chance to take a short business course that will tech them how to get their products noticed, marketed and commercialized. Andrea Rosenfeld, founder and CEO of Detroit Art & Business Institute, will conduct the eight-week business course. Classes will run 6 to 8 p.m. on consecutive Tuesdays beginning February 21 at
DETROIT - Online job postings in Michigan between January 2013 and May 2014 showed a need for nearly 47,000 engineering and design workers with bachelor degrees, but only 5,000 degrees were awarded in the state in these areas of study. Similar trends are present in the other industries tracked; postings in IT for candidates with
