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Entrepreneurs: Here’s your chance to meet with Michigan’s largest venture capital firm

March 21, 2011 Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Need help raising capital to accelerate the growth of your business? West Michigan entrepreneurs now have a chance to make an “elevator pitch” to investors from Beringea, Michigan’s largest venture capital firm, at Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, located at GVSU’s Grand Rapids campus.
From 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, [...]

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Tagged as: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, small business resources, venture capital

Michigan is First in Nation Approved for Federal Small-Business Financing

January 14, 2011 Access to Capital

Michigan small businesses seeking to grow will be more likely to qualify for loans even in the face of an ongoing credit crunch thanks to an infusion of cash from the federal government that will bolster the state’s small business lending program, Governor Rick Snyder and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) announced. Michigan is [...]

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Tagged as: Capital Access Program, Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Michigan Advantage, Upper Hand, venture capital

MEDC – The Year 2007 in Numbers

December 31, 2007 21st Century Funds

1 - National ranking of Michigan.org for visitors to state travel Web sites every month from April through December.
4 - International investment missions, to Sweden, Germany and two to China, to attract overseas companies to locate job-creating facilities in Michigan.
6 - Michigan’s ranking among all states on the Small Business Survival Index 2007 according to the national Small [...]

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Tagged as: brownfield redevelopment, Capital Access Program, community assistance programs, economic diversification, Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, international investment, Pure Michigan, Tourism Industry, venture capital

Celebrating Tech Growth

November 16, 2007 Venture Capital

If I told you we can take $12 million dollars and turn it into $100 million in just four years, you might think I’m blowing smoke, selling snake oil, or just plain deluded. But it is true and the proof was celebrated today in Kalamazoo.
Local leaders joined Gov. Granholm at a ribbon cutting for one [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, Economic Growth, venture capital