Coverage of those starting up businesses and community resources to help them thrive.
Spirit Shop is taking one of the older business models (T-shirt making) and putting a modern touch on it by developing a way to print fewer of them for less money. It's a formula that's helping it make more money and create more jobs.
While company after company is trying to teach its industry a thing or two to make money, Ann Arbor's Procuit is trying to make it's dough by making sure the lesson is learned. The training-retention firm hopes to double its growth and triple its staff within the next year.
SpamStopsHere is moving full speed ahead. The Ann Arbor buisiness' revenues have steadily grown and it hopes to hire another 10 to 12 people this year.
It's one thing to improve the look of your customers. It's quite another to improve the look of your neighborhood. And yet, that's just what Wendy Batiste-Johnson has done with her downtown Ann Arbor boutique. While street after street fills up with chain-store restaurants and retail, Possh proves that locally owned businesses can not only compete but become community tastemakers.
An old idea is still a good one and is still going strong, making money and jobs in Ann Arbor. GreenView Data's Vedit editing program is still scoring sales and creating jobs, expecting to being on another person or two later this year.
The fallout from Pfizer closing its Ann Arbor campus isn't falling very far. A bakers dozen of the company's top scientists have taken research jobs at the University of Michigan while many more have landed at local companies, formed their own start-ups or are finding their way into U-M as students, staff and faculty.
RMS has locations throughout the U.S., including a new one in Ypsilanti. The company hopes to expand and add jobs as they spread into nearby markets.
More venture capital money is landing in Ann Arbor. A trio of local VC firms are investing $1 million into Tree Town-based Accord Biomaterials latest innovation.
Putting the right local entrepreneur in the right place in the right time. That's what Digital Edge is trying to do in Michigan by creating the equivalent of Facebook for local new economy start-ups.
Someone must be smiling down on the Ann Arbor area because the region is blessed with a multitude of start-ups. Take Lumen Christi Church Design, specializing in old-school, cathedral-style church interiors. The two-person accidental start-up's work is taking off across the nation and hopes to hire a person or two in the not-too-distant future.
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