TRAVERSE CITY - Robert Ochtel, the founder of Traverse Angels, an early stage, Angel investment group, will be the featured guest on the Traverse City Chamber�??s monthly Entrepreneur Focus Program July 16. The program will discuss Angel Investing in the greater Traverse City region. The show is hosted by Ron Jolly and broadcasted on WTCM
TRAVERSE CITY - Last month's organizational meeting for the Traverse Angels drew a dozen potential investors. Founder Robert Ochtel said he's so happy with the response, he may launch two more angel investing groups in the Northern Michigan region. �??I�??m looking at developing other groups in other parts of Michigan, but I�??m not yet ready
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor volunteers are pulling together what they're calling Startup Weekend - 54 hours of practical hands-on learning about starting up a business where there is no agenda and what companies come out of the other end of the process is anyone's guess. From June 20-22, this group think experiment will give
CLARKSTON �?? The Michigan Council of Women in Technology are hosting a golf outing on July 22 to benefit the MCWT Foundation. It will be held at Pine Knob Golf Club. There are three ways to register. 1) As a Sponsor including providing gifts for prizes 2) Participate in CIO Auction and golf with a
ANN ARBOR - The Frankel Commercialization Fund, a student-managed angel capital seed fund at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has announced its second investment - $71,000 to BeholzTech a company founded in Flint by Lars Beholz, a visiting associate professor of chemistry at Kettering University. BeholzTech's technology effectively coats polyolefin plastics, making
LANSING - Michigan's new business tax is complicated with a number of provisions that are detrimental to businesses, and not enough information has been distributed to this point so that many companies don't even know about credits that will help offset the tax burden, said a report of a subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee
MACKINAC ISLAND - Several of the proposals Governor Jennifer Granholm has made in the past three years have bogged down in the Legislature, so Friday she asked members of the Detroit Regional Chamber to help her get those issues moving. In one case she offered a direct payback for that help. Though she did not
MANISTEE - Gov. Jennifer Granholm will speak to participants and attendees June 27 at the Michigan Energy Fair, a three-day extravaganza featuring wind, solar, and energy-efficient products and services. The Energy Fair will be held at the Manistee County Fairgrounds in Onekama. Granholm will speak to the crowd at 2:30 pm Friday after meeting with
LANSING - While little legislation overhauling Michigan's utility and energy regulatory system has moved so far from the Senate Energy Policy and Public Utilities Committee, its chair, Sen. Bruce Patterson (R-Canton), said committee members are working towards resolution of the issues. But that does not necessarily mean there will be a "straight line to an
LANSING - It took about half a dozen votes, but the Michigan Legislature has finally agreed to a capital outlay budget that includes federal pass through dollars for state airport projects without 39 university and community college construction projects tagged on as the House concurred in Senate changes to HB 5221 on Tuesday and sent