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  • Networking, Company Presentations and Panels to Drive Program at Midwest Equity Event The Michigan Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) today unveiled preliminary plans for the 2013 event, which is the Midwest’s annual must-attend gathering to connect angel, seed and growth stage investors from across the U.S. with executives of early stage and emerging growth companies and related stakeholders. It is scheduled for May 21-22, 2013 at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti, Mich. Celebrating its 32nd year, the University of Michigan-produced MGCS has become known as a champion of entrepreneurial growth and investment opportunities in the greater Midwest.  Since the first growth capital symposium held in 1980, it has...

    Plans Unveiled for 2013 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium

    Posted on January 18, 2013 | No Comments
    Networking, Company Presentations and Panels to Drive Program at Midwest Equity Event The Michigan Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) today unveiled preliminary plans for the 2013 event, which is the Midwest’s annual must-attend gathering to connect angel, seed and growth stage investors from across the U.S. with executives of early stage and emerging growth companies and related stakeholders. It is scheduled for May 21-22, 2013 at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti, Mich. Celebrating its 32nd year, the University of Michigan-produced MGCS has become known as a champion of entrepreneurial growth and investment opportunities in the greater Midwest.  Since the first growth capital symposium held in 1980, it has...

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  • Back in December at the Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing area user groups held the fourth annual DemoCamp.  Here’s a summary of the presentations: Jeff Smith wanted a way for people to discover and share all the unknown cool places in his hometown.  The result was Pointilism which is a mobile game where you are presented with photos of places which you try and identify. If you are correct and get within a hundred feet you collect points.  When you’re unable to find a spot you can get clues.  If you’re planning a trip to the Lansing area you can download Pointilism...

    Lansing DemoCamp 2012 Recap

    Posted on January 15, 2013 | No Comments
    Back in December at the Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing area user groups held the fourth annual DemoCamp.  Here’s a summary of the presentations: Jeff Smith wanted a way for people to discover and share all the unknown cool places in his hometown.  The result was Pointilism which is a mobile game where you are presented with photos of places which you try and identify. If you are correct and get within a hundred feet you collect points.  When you’re unable to find a spot you can get clues.  If you’re planning a trip to the Lansing area you can download Pointilism...

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  • Join us this Thursday, January 17, 2013 at Xconomy’s Mobile Madness Motor City Forum. It’s Xconomy’s inaugural mobile Detroit event, and is being held at the Compuware building from 2:00-5:30pm. Startups can attend for $50.  The speaker line-up includes Josh Linkner of Detroit Venture Partners, local startup founders Itai Ben-Gal (iRule) and Paul Glomski (Detroit Labs), as well as Paul Czarnik, CTO of Compuware and Sheryl Connelly, Manager of Ford’s Global Trends and Futures group. Lots of groups have highlighted this event and for good reason…there are over 19 speakers from within the ranks of Intel, GM, Ludlow Ventures, ePrize, Quicken...

    Join us at Xconomy’s Mobile Madness Forum this Thursday

    Posted on January 14, 2013 | No Comments
    Join us this Thursday, January 17, 2013 at Xconomy’s Mobile Madness Motor City Forum. It’s Xconomy’s inaugural mobile Detroit event, and is being held at the Compuware building from 2:00-5:30pm. Startups can attend for $50.  The speaker line-up includes Josh Linkner of Detroit Venture Partners, local startup founders Itai Ben-Gal (iRule) and Paul Glomski (Detroit Labs), as well as Paul Czarnik, CTO of Compuware and Sheryl Connelly, Manager of Ford’s Global Trends and Futures group. Lots of groups have highlighted this event and for good reason…there are over 19 speakers from within the ranks of Intel, GM, Ludlow Ventures, ePrize, Quicken...

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  • Earlier this summer, Steve Blank packed the house at Detroit’s Madison building, for a fireside chat with Detroit’s emergent Startup Community. Blank, a serial entrepreneur, author of The Startup Owners Manual, and lecturer at Stanford, dropped in to check out the Madison, meet members of Detroit’s startup community, and share some news about his recent efforts — training University researchers to think more Entrepreneurially: In a partnership with the National Science Foundation, Blank has designed the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which teaches university scientists how to think like entrepreneurs and bring their inventions to market faster. Though the program has trained 100 teams...

    Steve Blank on Detroit’s Startup Scene

    Posted on November 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Earlier this summer, Steve Blank packed the house at Detroit’s Madison building, for a fireside chat with Detroit’s emergent Startup Community. Blank, a serial entrepreneur, author of The Startup Owners Manual, and lecturer at Stanford, dropped in to check out the Madison, meet members of Detroit’s startup community, and share some news about his recent efforts — training University researchers to think more Entrepreneurially: In a partnership with the National Science Foundation, Blank has designed the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which teaches university scientists how to think like entrepreneurs and bring their inventions to market faster. Though the program has trained 100 teams...

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