ROYAL OAK - On the Michigan Small Business Development Center segment of M2 TechCast, CEO Keith Brophy interviews Andrew Agbay, founder and President of Decypher Corp of Berkley, Michigan, helping businesses transition from manual reporting to automated, meaningful reports. In the interview, Agbay answers these questions: What Decypher Corp does, and what makes his business
LANSING - Jeff Wesley has been named executive director of Red Cedar Ventures by the Michigan State University Foundation. He will focus on managing and growing the company’s venture investment portfolio of companies commercializing intellectual property created at MSU. An alumnus of Central Michigan University, Wesley served as an executive with Two Men and a
ANN ARBOR - CampGig.Com, a summer camp staffing solution, won first prize and a purse of $25,000 at Ann Arbor SPARK’s Entrepreneur Boot Camp, while Breath of Life was runner-up and took home $10,000. The winners were selected by a panel of experts, based on the business’ investor pitch. Boot Camp is designed for entrepreneurs
The 2018 SBA awards include: + Michigan Small Business Person of the Year + Small Business Exporter of the Year + Veteran Owned Small Business of the Year + Women Owned Small Business + SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year Nominations Due by December 18 Nominate Here
ANN ARBOR - Registration is now open for the Running Start youth entrepreneurial workshop program, an engaging, mentor-led, workshop-based approach to equip youth with entrepreneurial skills to start a business. “We’ve had an enthusiastic response from parents and the local community about this new workshop series,” noted Founder & President of Running Start, Debra Power. “Due to demand, we have opened
DEARBORN - Six communities across the state of Michigan have been identified for the strategies they employ to foster entrepreneurial growth and economic development, according to the annual eCities study. The study, conducted by iLabs, University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Center for Innovation Research, identified the City of Farmington Hills, City of Grand Blanc, City of Hillsdale,
HOUGHTON - StabiLux Biosciences, a company founded by Michigan Technological University physics professor Yoke Khin Yap, has recently been awarded more than $650,000. The funds are from America’s Seed Fund, powered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program, and the Invest Michigan's University Commercialization Fund (UCF). Yap
DETROIT - On Nov. 15, Wayne State University will launch the Wayne Innovation Hub to coordinate and enhance its program for entrepreneurship education, technology commercialization, and community partnerships, and to enhance the university’s overall culture of innovation. The Wayne Innovation Hub is an element of the university’s five-year strategic plan, Distinctively Wayne State, which identified
ANN ARBOR - It's a question every startup struggles with—how to divide the equity before a product, an app or service is developed? Startup founders are often compensated initially with equity shares until the business starts making money, and equally splitting shares seems like the default. Equally splitting these shares can create problems such as
GRAND RAPIDS - The Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce Wednesday announced the winners of the 2017 EPIC Awards - honoring local organizations and professionals for their outstanding success stories and contributions to West Michigan economy. Twenty local entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations were in the running as finalists for seven EPIC Award categories. Recipients and
