Entrepreneur's Corner

Ann Arbor Entrepreneur Boot Camp Application Deadline Oct. 1 ANN ARBOR - Entrepreneur Boot Camp is an intensive and instructive way to gain critical feedback and advice about your business model, management team, competitive positioning, market strategy and other key elements that determine if a start-up will succeed or fail. The application deadline is October 1.

Entrepreneur Education 1.0: Entrepreneur And Startup Ventures ANN ARBOR - Defining yourself as an entrepreneur and understanding what lies before you will give you a realistic frame of reference for your new venture.

FastTrac Business Development Program Offers Classes In Oakland County OAKLAND COUNTY – A series of business development classes, featuring the nationally acclaimed FastTrac curriculum will be hosted by the Oakland County Business Center this August and September.

Business Networking Dinner Cruise Sept. 14 DETROIT - Who doesn't want a captive audience? And you know what? You'll get one if you join the Michigan International Chamber of Commerce for its second annual dinner networking cruise.

Wayne State Offers Certificate In Engineering Entrepreneurship DETROIT - Beginning this fall, undergraduate students at Wayne State University have the opportunity to study ventures engineering thanks to the approval August 4 by the WSU Board of Governors of a certificate in Engineering Entrepreneurship.

SBA, BOA Join Forces To Support Inner City Capital Connections Program 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.

Women's Exchange Offers September Program On Business Mentors 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.

Mehta SBA Region 10 Minority Business Person Of Year 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.

Procurement Matchmaking Event Sept. 1 At Schoocraft College In Livonia 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.

Michigan SBTDC, Precept Partners Helping Small Businesses Improve Internet Presence, Profits 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.

Lawrence Tech, Oakland University Host Engineering Career Day Sept. 30 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.

Michigan Makes Some Progress In Key Measures Of Entrepreneurship 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.

aimWest 5:01Aug. 18 At the Grand Woods Lounge 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.

3 More Michigan Companies Split $140,000 From Microloan Fund Program 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.

Women In Technology Connect-Net Event Aug. 19 At Lawrence Tech SOUTHFIELD - The Michigan Council of Women In Technology offer its Connect-Net Network Forum Aug. 19 at Lawrence Technological University. Guest speaker will be Maureen Monte, an IBM Consultant.

Fall 2010 Business Plan Competition Opens Aug. 23 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.

Businesses Need To Make A Case To Present At Growth Capital Symposium ANN ARBOR – More than 65 Midwestern and Coastal Investment Firms were represented at the 29th annual Michigan Growth Capital Symposium on May 11-12. The MGCS provided them an opportunity to connect with the "Best of the Midwest's" entrepreneurs, startups and emerging growth companies that are actively searching for partners and funding.

Building Your New Product – MISBTDC Holland Event July 20 HOLLAND - Do you have a product idea that you would like to develop? Looking carefully over all the details of product development can be complicated and confusing. Trying to understand it along can be difficult. Join our special class which will help you navigate through this process.

GVSU Business Outreach Spurs Job Growth GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business Technology Development Center has helped create the greatest number of jobs among the participants in the 21st Century Jobs Fund capital investment program, according to figures from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. Some 284 jobs in Michigan have been created by clients of the MI-SBTDC, which is housed in Grand Valley State University's Seidman College of Business and collaborates with Smart Zones, universities and other entrepreneurial support organizations to help build successful technology companies.

Seminar Will Help Small Business Owners with Approaching Financial Institutions WARREN - Funding is a necessary and important part of the success of any small business. Asking for funding can also be one of the most intimidating parts of running a small business, and often times, is unavoidable.