http://www.mitechnews.com Mitech News Entrepreneur's Corner http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12107 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12104 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12077 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12076 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12072 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12069 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12066 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12057 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12055 DETROIT - The U.S. Small Business Administration, Michigan Small Business and 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. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12031 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.