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Are Open Apps Draining Your Battery?

  Remember those social studies classes back in the day when your teacher first talked about one person having multiple roles?  A woman could be a sister, daughter, mother, friend, athlete, community advocate, manager, colleague, advisor, entrepreneur, and more.  What a concept to a 10 year old.   As modern adults, most of us play […]

Weekly Resource #24 – MMIC Boost!

Boost! is a pitch contest for entrepreneurs that has generated over $2 Million in investments. Join the 100+ companies that have competed in the Boost! competition in the past! This competition is available to any entrepreneur in the early and developing phases of business development. Each participant is allowed 2 minuets to pitch their business. […]

Weekly Resource #23 – MMIC Crowd Camp: Ann Arbor

Over the past few years, crowd funding has proven to be a viable alternative to traditional loans. With $2.7 Billion raised in 2012 through crowd funded campaigns, they are not something that should be ignored. However, it being a relatively new method of funding procurement, many people don’t know much about them and they know […]

Resource Provider Spotlight: D:Hive Detroit

[youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4r9W9-4UCA&feature=youtu.be” width=”640″ height=”480″] April Boyle talks about some of the resources D:Hive has to offer Detroit based Entrepreneurs. Brandon Christopher, founder of Canvas X Detroit, also talks about his experience in D:Hive’s “Pilot” program.

Weekly Resource #22 – Build a Website

Grand Circus Detroit, a brand new co-working, event and training center for tech startups in the heart of downtown Detroit, is hosting a 10 week course, beginning September 30th, on how to Build a Dynamic Website. In this course you will get a thorough introduction to the technologies necessary to build modern, standards compliant websites. […]

Weekly Resource #21 University of Michigan-Flint Incubator

The University of Michigan- Flint campus is larger than just faculty, staff, and classrooms. The campus stretches north of the Flint River and includes the Northbank Center, which contains the dance studio, University Outreach and the Innovation Incubator, also known as [IN], located on the building’s second floor. The following is a top ten list […]

Weekly Resource #20 – Great Lakes Women’s Business Conference

For 12 years the Annual Great Lakes Women’s Business Conference has been bringing business women from across the state together to interact and establish connections with one another.  Woman from many different industries will attend this 2 day networking event starting Tuesday, September 24th and ending the evening of Wednesday the 25th. Educational workshops, seminars, […]