DETROIT - David Kircos of Grosse Pointe and Hunter Rosenblume of Syosset, New York, won the $5,000 grand prize for building the top app for the Detroit Public Library at the #hackDP competition earlier this month. Both are interns at Detroit Venture Partners. The event was sponsored by Automation Alley. The app building competition was
TROY - Automation Alley is partnering with Plante Moran to sponsor a four-part business breakfast series titled Toast + Tech Talk. The first session, Business Basics for Growing Firms ? What You Need to Know to Succeed, will be held at Plante Moran?s Detroit office on July 29. This first session will feature a panel
GRAND RAPIDS - Openings are now available for Grand Valley State University?s fall Emerging Leader Workshop, What Leaders Do - The Leadership Development Series, and Leading High Performance Teams programs beginning in September and October 2014. Emerging Leader Workshop This one-day workshop will provide prospective leaders with deep insight into their own work styles and
SOUTHFIELD ? The Michigan Council of Women In Technology is hosting a Lunch & Learn webinar July 10 starting at noon that will look at Intrapreneurship ? Innovating in an Enterprise. An established organization's successful innovation requires the ability to be disruptive, rather than destructive. Learn more about enterprise innovation, as well as how to
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan Small BIZ PAC has endorsed Rick Snyder for reelection as governor. "The Governor?s relentless, positive action to eliminate the Michigan Business Tax, create the Healthy Michigan system, promote regulatory reinvention and foster economic gardening has created a culture in Michigan where small businesses have the opportunity to
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Venture Capital Association received $987,850 in grant funding from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for its Venture Upstart programs to grow and sustain a vibrant venture capital community in Michigan by supporting talent attraction efforts at venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. MVCA?s Venture Upstart programs funded by the
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK has been awarded $500,000 from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. for continuation of the Michigan Angel Fund (I), and to establish the Michigan Angel Fund II. "The success of the Michigan Angel Fund shows that there's a real need for this type of very early stage capital in the
EAST LANSING - A team of researchers from the Michigan State University College of Engineering is creating a kind of robotic sensor that could eventually be used to collect environmental pollution data from rivers, streams and lakes. They are modeling the sensor after something that already exists in nature and is skilled at skimming across
TROY - The Michigan Small Business Development Center recently awarded Automation Alley $15,000 from the Business Accelerator Fund to provide accelerated entrepreneurial services to Ferndale-based tech company Tome Inc. to help cover costs for Tome?s legal services. Tome was founded by Jake Sigal and Massimo Baldini, after Ford Motor Co. bought their in-vehicle connectivity software
LAKE ORION - Registration is open for the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Golf Classic at Indianwood Golf and Country Club on July 28. Proceeds help the education and career prospects of the next generation of female IT talent in Michigan. Members have two options to enjoy this networking-rich MCWT event. A whole day