Coverage of those starting up businesses and community resources to help them thrive.
Some companies grow slowly and others seem to sprout like dandelions. Polyergic Informatics is one of the latter. The Ann Arbor-based company hopes to quadruple its employee base within the next year as it signs on new clients.
MedHub has grown from a project at the University of Michigan in 2002 to a well-established money maker with 60 percent annual growth. The four-person firm is also in the market now for a new employee or two.
Students at the University of Michigan aren't investing play money into make-believe corporations. The business schools venture capital fund has invested $71,000 into Flint-based BeholzTech to help the start-up get its feet under it and recruit some talent.
A dozen new start-up companies will be ready to launch by the time Sunday rolls around. They will come from the Startup Weekend event which looks to make these new companies ready to roll after a marathon preparation session over the weekend.
Driving above the traffic just might become a thing of the future in Metro Detroit. Ann Arbor-based Intraduce hopes to make such things happen sooner rather than later and create more than a few jobs while doing it.
Mobius Microsystems is coming home to Ann Arbor, moving its Michigan offices from Motown to Tree Town. The company expects to hire an engineer every quarter as its develops its business.
Joseph Curtin designs and builds violins and violas for a distiguished and international clientele. Combining cutting edge acoustic technology and master craftsmanship, he is helping evolve both the art and science behind some of the world's most beautifiul music.
Mobatech went to Ann Arbor SPARK's entrepreneurial boot camp and kicked butt. The cell phone software development firm won the best of the boot camp award that helped refine its business plan and overall business ideas.
Ann Arbor SPARK goes east and finds and old building to house their new business incubator in the growing city of Ypsilanti. Of course, renovations are scheduled and should be up and incubating by the fall.
Plenty of people are looking for investment opportunities in southeast Michigan, and the recent Michigan Growth Capital Symposium in Ypsilanti was the place to find it last week.
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