WASHINGTON - The U.S. Small Business Administration, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and Bank of America announced Monday they will work together to advance inner city small business growth by supporting the Inner City Capital Connections program. ICIC, which educates investment-ready inner city companies about equity and other sources of growth capital and
ANN ARBOR - The Women's Exchange of Washtenaw is offering an exciting exchange session ? Mentors, The Business Makers ? on Sept. 16 at the Eagle Crest Conference Center in Ypsilanti. The event is geared for both mentors and mentees. Women business leaders are mentored or provide mentoring at different points during their career journey.
DETROIT - The U.S. Small Business Administration, Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center, Procurement Technical Assistance Center, Huntington Bank and other cosponsors are teaming up to provide a procurement matchmaking event for small business owners who are seeking to expand their business with government agencies. This half-day event will be held at Schoolcraft College,
WASHINGTON ? Perry Mehta, President of FutureNet Group of Detroit, was named the Region V Minority Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. He and the other nine regional winners will be honored during National Minority Enterprise Development Week conference Aug. 25-27 in Washington. During the mentor-prot�g� conference, small business owners
GRAND RAPIDS - The pace has quickened with the collaboration between the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center and Precept Partners to help Michigan small businesses optimize the design, infrastructure and technology that support a process for building and marketing high performance websites. The MI-SBTDC and Precept Partners established a collaboration to assist Michigan
LANSING - Despite the tough economy, Michigan has made discernable progress over the past several years in some key measures of entrepreneurship, according to the fifth annual Entrepreneurship Score Card, released for 2008-2009. The score card is published by the Small Business Foundation of Michigan, operated in connection with the Small Business Association of Michigan.
SOUTHFIELD - Employers seeking college students majoring in engineering, computer science and technology disciplines will have the opportunity to meet a wide variety of undergraduates and recent graduates from two Oakland County colleges that attract top students in these fields from around the region. Tech x 2 Expo = OU + LTU, a joint career
ANN ARBOR ? Three Michigan companies recently received a combined total of $140,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund Program, bringing the total amount invested through the Fund to over $1.4 million. Detroit Electric, Ergun Technologies, and Local Orbit received the funding to support commercialization of their core products. Detroit Electric, based in Detroit, is the
GRAND RAPIDS ? aimWest, a technology networking group for West Michigan, will kick off its 2010-2011 season Aug. 18 at the Grand Woods Lounge in downtown Grand Rapids. The events starts at 5:01 pm. The event is free for aimWest members and non members alike. The door prize is an iPod Nano. Food is provided
ANN ARBOR ? If you want to get the chance to win thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars for your Michigan startup business, you're going to want to compete in the Fall 2010 Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Business Plan competition. Registration opens Aug. 23. In June, GLEQ presented $250,000 in prize money to dozens