ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest has moved back the Phase I registration deadline for its Business Plan Competition from October 31 to November 15 to give entrepreneurs more time to sign up. The submission deadline for a completed five-page executive summary by registered teams also has been moved back to December 14th.
LANSING - Efforts to spin more businesses out of mid-Michigan's higher education institutions will be ramped up, thanks to a $250,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The grant to the Prima Civitas Foundation will further efforts to improve the mid-Michigan economy. Specifically, it will support comprehensive benchmarking and best-practices identification among Michigan higher
GRAND RAPIDS ? Internet Advertising Network specialist Adtegrity.Com cut its losses dramatically for the third quarter, but still posted another loss. The Pink Sheets traded stock reported a net loss of $986 on net revenues of $3.1 million for the third quarter, compared with a loss in the year ago third quarter of $63,200 on
GRAND RAPIDS ?The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center will be hosting several workshops through the end of the year designed to assess the needs of small business owners and equip them with the tools they need to not only start, but also successfully run their businesses. The workshops bring together several experienced business
ANN ARBOR - Mark Jane, an employee benefits specialist, has joined Butzel Long as an associate attorney in the firm's Ann Arbor office. Jane also practices in the areas of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and compensation. He has experience in a variety of employee benefits matters, including Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, service provider
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union's new proposal aimed at fast-tracking the immigration process for workers in highly skilled jobs is making some U.S. technology heavyweights nervous. It's no secret that American tech firms prize vast quantities of H-1B temporary visas and permanent residency permits, otherwise known as green cards, CNET News.Com reported. The companies
CHICAGO - There are approximately 22 million small business owners in the United States and one of the characteristics that make up this bunch is they are fiercely independent, according to a year's worth of surveys conducted by Discover Small Business Watch. Sixty per cent of small business owners said they would not give up
ANN ARBOR - ArbCamp, which will focus on sharing the technology and social networking in Ann Arbor, will be held October 27 at the Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College. ArbCamp is a one-day, open-space event featuring members of the greater Ann Arbor community involved in marketing, business and technology, which are converging. The
DETROIT ? Women are still a widely untapped resource at the executive level, as well as in board rooms, compared to their male counterparts at Michigan's largest public corporations, a new study shows. More revealing is the lack of women of color at the top of these companies. Published for the first time in 2003,
BIRMINGHAM ? Kirk Ziehm has joined venture capital firm Seneca Partners as Senior Associate. He will be based in Seneca's Bannockburn, Illinois office. "Kirk's range of experiences will be a great addition to the Seneca team. He will bring excellent insights to our clients and portfolio companies as an advisor and consultant," says Rajesh Kothari,