DETROIT - The U.S. Small Business Administration has announced its 2008 Michigan Small Business Person of the Year and champion awards. They received their awards Thursday night during the fourth annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards dinner in East Lansing. Richard Temkin, SBA Michigan District Director said, ?Michigan?s entrepreneurs and small businesses are becoming increasingly
BIRMINGHAM ? Kirk Gutmann, Group Vice President of General Motor?s IS&S (formerly Information Services and Systems) will be the keynote speaker May 1 at the Michigan Chapter of Women in Technology 2008 Partnership & Scholarship Recognition Gala. The event honors the MCWT Foundation?s 2008 scholarship, research grant, and laptop recipients at MCWT?s second biggest event
GRAND RAPIDS - Does your business, or one you know, need capital? The State of Michigan 21st Century Business Plan Competition has $30 million in funding available for technology businesses. The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center is hosting an informational meeting on May 15 to tell you how to get a piece of
ANN ARBOR ? The registration deadline for the Spring cycle of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business plan competition and training program for entrepreneurs statewide is midnight tonight. Only the team must be entered. Business plan deadlines aren't for another month. GLEQ provides Michigan?s technology entrepreneurs training, coaching and investor feedback as part of its
SOUTHFIELD ? The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE-Detroit) are hosting an event Wednesday at the Weston Southfield that will examine the public and closely held auto suppliers poised for purchase in Michigan and Canada. Attorney Walawender who leads the global team at the law firm of Miller Canfield in Detroit and will also discuss the U.S. Economic
ANN ARBOR - New Enterprise Forum will host a program Thursday that will look at the Web 2.0 business models, their potential and impact. America's Next Top Business Model is scheduled for 5 pm April 17 at the Holiday Inn North Campus on Plymouth Road. The participants for this event include: Howard Brown ? Co-Founder
CLEVELAND - MyriadHealth, an internet software and services claims developer, on Monday announced it has raised $1.5 million, with $750,000 coming from the Innovation Ohio Fund, which was tentatively approved by the Development Financing Advisory Council on March 31. The funding will be used for real-time direct integration of Provider Electronic Medical Records with Practice
TRAVERSE CITY - Traverse Angels, an Early Stage, Angel Investment Network, will hold its second Member Introduction Meeting May 14 at a location in the Traverse City area. The Traverse Angels network is an invitation-only, select network of successful entrepreneurs, professionals as well as business and community leaders, who are interested in providing investment capital,
TRAVERSE CITY - Traverse Angels, a Northwest Michigan focused early stage, Angel investment group, will hold a free Angel Investor and Entrepreneur Workshop in May that unlike its meetings is open to the public. The workshop will be held May 13 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am, in the Van Sumeren Room, 3rd FL, at
GRAND RAPIDS ? Rick Snyder, co founder of Ardesta, a nano technology-focused venture capital company in Ann Arbor, will be the keynote speaker at the first Celebrating Entrepreneurship in West Michigan event May 5 at Grand Valley State University's downtown campus. Snyder, the Chairman of the Board at Gateway Computers, and a University of Michigan