GRAND RAPIDS - You want to start a business or expand your existing business. You have a great idea, super attitude and entrepreneurial spirit. So when you head down to your local bank and sit in front of the credit manager and explain this brilliant idea ? he or she responds with "that's a great
KALAMAZOO - The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest will continue its fall program for entrepreneurs with the business commercialization seminar called Go To Market Sales Strategy, September 19th at the Michigan Technical Education Center at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. David Brenner, Managing Partner of IdeaWorks in Grand Rapids will relate his start-up experiences, provide a structured
ANN ARBOR - Four past winners in the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business plan competition have been selected to receive $10.7 million in funding from the Michigan 21st Century Jobs Fund competition. The largest award went to the GLEQ's 2003 Grand Prize winner ? Adaptive Materials ? located in Ann Arbor. The GLEQ alumni awarded
GRAND RAPIDS ? The Right Place Program's Fourth Friday monthly power breakfast meeting on Sept.22 will provide tips from the working press on how your company can get news coverage. We?ll explore questions such as: What makes something newsworthy? What constraints do those in the media work under? How do we get them interested in
DETROIT ? Jim Epolito, CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., will discuss the new 21st Century Jobs Fund at the September 20 meeting of the Great Lakes Angels. The event will be held at a private venue in Birmingham. The event is open to accredited investors from Michigan, Ohio and Ontario who will get
DETROIT ? The National Science Foundation has awarded a $499,858 grant to Wayne State University ? one of seven awarded nationally - to establish a three-year interdisciplinary program to improve career advancement opportunities for women faculty in sciences and engineering. Escalate, which starts Sept. 1, seeks to diversify the academic science and engineering workforce and
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest, now in its seventh year, will open registration in its annual business plan competition September 12 with an Entrepreneur?s Roundtable at Ann Arbor SPARK. In addition to statewide networking events, business training geared for start-ups, individualized business coaching, and mentoring opportunities with successful entrepreneurs and investors; this
ANN ARBOR ? Management consultant CompanyCrafters has published an Entrepreneur's Dictionary to translate business terminology for everyone in the start-up game that don't have fancy MBAs. The Entrepreneur?s Dictionary: a Guide t Start-up Business Term for non-MBAs, is sort of the idiots? guide to Entrepreneurship. "We think of The Entrepreneur?s Dictionary as a secret decoder
DETROIT ? Self-employed business owners in the Detroit area that can't qualify for traditional bank loans, and don't want to max out their credit cards, are now eligible for micro loans from $500 to $25,000 through a new partnership announced Tuesday. ACCION USA, a private, nonprofit organization that provides financial services to small business owners
WASHINGTON DC - Women-owned businesses increased nearly 20 percent over a half decade, a report released by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration contends. Between 1997 and 2002, women-owned companies grew by 19.8 percent, compared to 7 percent for all US businesses. A significant portion of those companies were in professional,