ANN ARBOR - David Weaver from CitySide Ventures talks about what his angel groups can do for Michigan startups. He is associated with several, including Birmingham Angels and the GreatLakesAngels Fund. You can get more details by emailing him at [email protected]. https://youtu.be/CiaRcbCB3x8
ANN ARBOR - Skip Simms, managing partner of the Michigan Angel Fund, provides tips for how to attract private equity investors for your startups. He also encourages high net worth individuals and families to consider investing in Michigan startups as an asset class. More at www.miangelfund.com. https://youtu.be/hEymxiFql-I
ANN ARBOR - Gina Adams founder of Wareologie, a magnetic button for people with disabilities, pivoted into developing portable parallel bars, what she describes as a game-changer for acute care, skilled nursing facilities, rehab, mobile therapy, and even outpatient clinics with small therapy gyms. She developed her new product with the help of Centrepolis Accelerator
ANN ARBOR - Tamara Shoemaker and Bridget Kravachenko provide deep dive on Cyber Patriot program that teaches grade school students from Kindergarten to 12th grade how to protect themselves from hackers and predators when they are surfing the Internet. The Michigan program, led by Tamara, also is seeking cybersecurity experts to serve as mentors to
ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity professionals Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest, and Dan Lohrmann, VP at Presidio.Com, update the latest cyber threats and address how to fill the 600,000 cybersecurity job openings nationwide. Also covered was identifying a 28-year-old Russian hacker responsible for millions of dollars in ransomware attacks, zero trust defensive strategies, and insurers running
ANN ARBOR - Epidemiologist Fred Brown returns to MITech TV to analyze the new COVID Variant that is sweeping South Africa. It's been dubbed Omicron. Brown says he suspects it already has arrived in the USA. What impact it will have on the country's COVID health crisis won't be know for a couple more weeks.
ANN ARBOR - Sibrina Collins, Director of the Marbuger STEM Center at Lawrence Technological University highlights National STEM Day at middle schools in Southfield and Detroit, where students built circuits with LED lights. https://youtu.be/3c1CX6O7UGU
ANN ARBOR - Tom Vaughn, co-leader of Dykema’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice, highlights the results of a survey that shows 75 percent of respondents expect the M&A market to strengthen over the next 12 months, the highest level of optimism recorded in the 17-year history of the survey. https://youtu.be/_oooL-Kqpd0
ANN ARBOR - Michigan NORML Executive Director Rick Thompson joins MITech TV to introduce himself to the Michigan business audience and outline some of the Cannabis advocacy group's top legislative priorities. None is higher than an attempt by large vertically integrated cannabis companies in Michigan to restrict Medical caregivers' ability to provide cannabis-enhanced products to
ANN ARBOR - On MITech TV Nov. 8 , we devoted the show to provide more details about HeroProjectUSA.Org and how it will work with the cannabis industry to fund Veteran Service Organizations that work with Veterans to deal with physical and mental issues, homelessness, unemployment and more. Our first big sponsorship is at a
