ANN ARBOR - If you are launching a startup, and need people to help you, come to this high energy event where you can have 1 minute to tell about your business and what kind of help you are seeking, (advisory board member, co-founder, employee that is willing to work for stock, consultant, etc.) followed
WATERFORD - Now is the time to enroll in an exciting business training program presented by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Center that starts March 6 and runs through May 8, 2009. Venture Forward is an intensive, ten-week program that uses the highly acclaimed FastTrac GrowthVenture learning system along with MI-SBTDC counseling and research
KALAMAZOO - Businesses and industries are invited to partner in a major internship initiative that Kalamazoo Valley Community College plans to launch in January �?? placing 55 students in internships each academic year through 2011. Funded for a three-year period by the KVCC Foundation, the $100,000 project seeks to place students with enterprises interested in
FLINT - Kettering University will receive $225,000 to develop a program focused on teaching entrepreneurship studies across the curriculum. Kettering joins the Illinois Institute of Technology as the only two grant winners to enter the next phase of a program supported by the Kern Family Foundation of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Kettering President Stan Liberty said the
GRAND RAPIDS - AimWest, a technology professional networking group in West Michigan, is hosting its annual Holiday party Dec. 17 at McFadden's Irish Pub - the theme Egg Nog & Networking, Natch. The libations will begin to flow at 5:01 pm. The event is free for AimWest members and non members alike. There will be
LANSING - The Prima Civitas Foundation has received a grant from the C.S. Mott Foundation in the amount of $200,000 to create an environment that encourages entrepreneurship and commercialization within the region's universities. This grant is a renewal of last year?s $250,000 grant funded by the Mott Foundation that introduced the Moving Ideas to Market
ANN ARBOR - Tech Expo World, which provides social networking, lead generation and sales and marketing solutions for technology companies, has added a new wrinkle - free search engine optimization press release distribution service. Tech Expo World developed its free SEO press release distribution service to arm technology companies with the maximum online reach possible
GRAND RAPIDS - Where do we stand on the Michigan Business Tax? What does it mean for you and your company? Is it going to be repealed? These and other questions will be explored Friday Nov. 21 at the Right Place Program Technology Council�??s Fourth Friday forum. Ron Kaley has spent the last year touring
ANN ARBOR ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, a business-plan writing contest, has never had a cycle as successful as the one underway. Some 111 teams signed up to win cash prizes and more importantly lean how to write a plan that will attract potential investors ? some 32 teams more than in the spring cycle.
SOUTHFIELD - The Detroit Chapter of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, is holding TiECon Midwest 2008, a two-day business convention. This one of a kind business expo called, "Succeeding in a Dynamic Global Marketplace," will be held on November 21-22 at the Westin Southfield Hotel in Southfield. TieCon Midwest is dedicated to innovation, entrepreneurship, global business