GRAND RAPIDS - Carol Lopucki, the state director the Michigan Small Business & Technology Center, talks about what her SBA-backed organization can offer entrepreneurs and small business in terms of training and support. If you're in need of better business knowledge, you don't want to miss this News Maker interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com
ANN ARBOR - Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest in January announced its Phase 1 winners in both the New Business and Emerging Company categories during the ACE 2008 expo. To find out which companies won, and how your start up can sign up for the Phase II stage of the business-plan writing contest, which starts Feb.
ANN ARBOR - Ron Suarez, founder of LoudFeed, a digital music promotions company for independent record labels, is headed to Cannes, France, this week for the world?s largest independent music convention. Suarez, also founder of MediaRica.Com, the podcast partner of MITechNews.Com, hopes to ink some contracts in Europe with record labels that will propel his
TRAVERSE CITY ? Traverse Angels is moving from concept to reality on Feb. 27 when it hosts its first membership meeting. The group is only open for qualified investors, meaning you have to make $250,000 a year or have a net worth of $1 million. The state wants to make sure you have risk capital
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK's is hosting a marketing roundtable Jan. 8 that looks at brand strategy and how it differs from one business arena to another. Presenters Include; Dave Hile, Hile Design Mike Sullivan, Halo Creative Group Trish Drueke-Heusel, Arbor Strategy Group Chris Hippler, Capital Letters Registration and networking will begin at 5
TROY ? Session II of Automation Alley's Business Development Series, Connecting with Potential Customers, will teach small business owners how to find customers who are looking for you. This session will discuss the importance of connecting with potential customers and how to search for those customers that are looking for your product or service. Session
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, a collaborative effort of Michigan's 12 SmartZones and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, issued a press release Thursday to report it has dispersed more than $4 million of the $6.6 million in start-up investment monies that it was awarded through the 21st Century Jobs Fund. The Michigan
ANN ARBOR ? The Eighth Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship on Jan. 17 begins an hour earlier to accommodate a new series of workshops aimed at educating entrepreneurs on the innovative companies and resources available to them. ACE is again hosted at Washtenaw Community College?s Morris Lawrence Building, starting at 4 pm. ACE promotes the development
REDMOND, Wa. - Interpersonal skills are more important in the workplace than IT skills, according to the results of a survey commissioned by Microsoft. In the survey of approximately 500 board-level executives, 61 percent said interpersonal and teamworking skills were more important than IT skills, CNET News.Com reported. However, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center has hired Jennifer Deamud as its new marketing manager to replace Jill Wallace who left the SBA-backed training group last summer. Deamud, the former marketing manager for Praxis Packaging in Grand Rapids, starts her new job on Jan. 3, 2008. Her first goal is