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
LANSING - To help spur innovation throughout the mid Michigan, the Prima Civitas Foundation, along with the Mid-Michigan Innovation Team, is offering a $5,000 grant to regional organizations to develop and sponsor Entrepreneur and Inventor Days programs. The application deadline is Jan. 18, 2008. ?This grant opportunity offers area higher-education institutions and organizations a chance
ANN ARBOR ��� The 2008 version of the Annual Collaboration For Entrepreneurship has just released the highlights of its Jan. 17 program at Washtenaw Community College. The lead sponsor again next year is Butzel Long. Other partners include the New Enterprise Forum, MIT Enterprise Forum of the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor SPARK, Automation Alley, Great
BLOOMFIELD HILLS -The Deal Gateway, in association with the Entrepreneur and Investor Exchange, is hosting its Winter Networking Event Jan. 8 at the Birmingham Community House with a presentation called Seven Things You Must Know About Raising Money. Carl Meyering, chairman and CEO of The Meyering Corporation, will be the featured speaker. His presentation will
GRAND RAPIDS ? Dec. 5 is your last day to register for the Dec. 10 seminar by Ron Alvesteffer from Service Express who will discuss using the Balanced Scorecard method to achieve 20 percent annual revenue growth and 98 percent customer retention. Alvesteffer will tell you about his journey, show his dashboard, and share his
ANN ARBOR ? If you'd like to hear more than a dozen entrepreneur's pitches and mingle with potential investors, the Dec. 5 Mingle & Match at Ann Arbor SPARK may be the event for you. The program starts at 5 pm and runs until 7 pm. It is sponsored by the Zell Lurie Institute and
HOWELL - Skip Simms, a senior executive with Ann Arbor SPARK, and the director of the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, said it's a great time to be an entrepreneur in Michigan. Over the past half dozen years, more than a dozen Venture Capital companies have sprung up in the state, along with a half dozen
SASKATOON, Canada - One in five organizations will settle a claim in a civil action to avoid the cost of recovering and searching through email, iTracks, a research company, found in a North American survey of 90 professionals who were directly involved with the legal discovery process from Nov. 7 - 23. "Counsel is going
GRAND RAPIDS - Creative Byline, which uses proprietary software to match up people who write books and publishers who buy them, has appointed Keith Brophy, President of NuSoft Solutions, to its Board of Directors. Brophy heads up Client Services & Solutions for NuSoft Solutions, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and one of the leading Microsoft
DETROIT ? Shigehito Onimura has joined Butzel Long as an attorney practicing in the firm?s Detroit office. Onimura is a skilled English-Japanese bilingual attorney with diverse and substantial experience in corporate legal matters. Onimura has experience counseling on multi-cultural labor law issues. He recently returned from a two-week visit to Japan to provide counsel to