TRAVERSE CITY ? The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center and the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments will be hosting a series of seminars early next year that will show training, planning and communications directors how to use the Implications Wheel to collect valuable information about the future. The Implications Wheel does a number
BLOOMFIELD HILLS ? Entrepreneur & Investor Exchange has partnered with Mitechnews.Com to launch in January a new co branded eNewsletter, news section and exhibit space that will help entrepreneurs attract investors, find customers and sell products. This high visibility promotion combines six months of advertising and personal publicity in one significantly discounted package. It includes
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest has added two Life Science experts to its coaching team. Rochelle Hanley and Marianne Andreach join a team of 30 GLEQ business coaches to strengthen its Life Sciences coaching competencies. Entrepreneurs competing in the GLEQ business plan competition receive valuable coaching from these industry experts. Teams are
KALAMAZOO ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest next training session will be Dec. 20 when Jack Ahrens, principle of T-Gap Ventures, explains the key elements entrepreneurs need to address when presenting to financial investors. Ahrens will tell entrepreneurs what to include in their pitches, how to deliver pitches and what pitfalls to avoid. Ahrens encourages entrepreneurs
ANN ARBOR - Michelle Crumm, CFO and co-founder of GLEQ 2003 Emerging Company winner - Adaptive Materials, and Todd Sullivan, CEO and founder of 2005 GLEQ winner - Spirit Shop will conduct the final event for the Fall Cycle with insights and answers on how to build and drive your business. Learn how Michelle has
TROY ? Carrie F. Blamer, a Walsh College student, has been named an Adams Entrepreneurial Fellow for 2005-2006. The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan has renewed funding for the fellowship, which develops the entrepreneurial skills of promising business students or alumni by matching them with local entrepreneurs for one year. A $126,000 grant was awarded
ANN ARBOR ? Any entrepreneurs that want to pitch their business plans at the Sixth Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship (ACE) can sign up online starting this week. Presentations, discussions and networking for Michigan entrepreneurs and the companies that support them will take place during the ACE event, Jan. 26 from 5 ? 9 pm at
NOVI ? For the second year in a row, IT solutions provider Macprofessionals has won the Apple 2005 Value Added Reseller Impact Award for the Central region of the United States. The Apple 2005 VAR Impact Award recognizes resellers who exemplify outstanding sales, service and support. Macprofessionals was honored for its work with clients in
> Bill Orabone and Paula Rhoades, partners of Orabone Rhoades, LLC, will lead the discussion on business commercialization for start-up companies. Orabone and Rhoades are experienced entrepreneurs and business people who provide strategic direction and marketing assistance to companies with a desire to grow. With their hands-on approach, Orabone Rhoades helps companies define their end
BLOOMFIELD HILLS ? Great Lakes Angels will host its next monthly meeting on Dec. 14, and feature pitches from a promising pharma start up and another company developing an Internet-based recruitment tool. Featured companies include NEOCUTIS (www.neocutis.com), which markets the first and only anti-aging product to contain fetal skin cell growth factors in a clinically