Larry Freed, CEO of ForeSeeResults, talks about the recent move by his company to buy out Compuware Corp. and bring in two Venture Capital firms that will help the web site customer measurement company fuel growth. ForeSeeResults, based in Ann Arbor, will be looking for about 30 professionals this year to join its staff of 70 - good news for Michigan’s hard pressed economy.
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Interview with Art DeMonte, executive director of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest, discussing GLEQ’s new FastTrac TechVenture program, an intensive five session, 15 hour program to help tech entrepreneurs create business plans that win them money from investors. The first session starts in Ann Arbor on April 18.
Interview with Skip Simms, Executive Director of the Business Accelerator for Ann Arbor SPARK, who says its time for the state of Michigan to develop incentives for Angel Investors to pour their cash into promising Michigan technology and life sciences startups. Simms outlines what he says some of those incentives should be.
Interview with David Fry of Ann Arbor’s Fry Inc., an e-commerce design, development and managed services provider, which purchased San Francisco-based Pinnacle Rock Associates, a consulting firm providing business and technology consulting services to multi-channel retailers, catalogers and consumer goods manufacturers.
Interview with University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman about how U-M will provide $1 million a year for the next three years to recruit as many former Pfizer research scientists as possible. Coleman also said more than 170 Pfizer scientists have contacted the U-M Education School about joining its Fast Track program, which could give them the credentials within a year to teach.
Interview with Michael Finney, president of Ann Arbor SPARK, who said scores of scientists who soon will be terminated from Pfizer’s Ann Arbor campus have contacted SPARK about getting help starting new life sciences and drug development-related companies based on the work they’ve been doing at Pfizer.
Interview with Michael Finney, president of Ann Arbor SPARK, who talks about what happened at the Jan. 29 emergency meeting of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County and state business and government leaders that tried to respond to Pfizer announcement that the pharma giant will close its Ann Arbor R&D labs and terminated 2,100 high paying tech jobs.
