Michael Nowlan, an attorney with Clark Hill’s Detroit office, talks about the next round of H1B temporary worker visas, typically used by high tech companies to recruit very skilled foreign workers. The US government will begin accepting applications for the fiscal year on April 2. It’s a first come, first served rush to grab the 65,000 visas that will be available for US businesses.
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Michael Spink, an attorney for Brinks, Hofer, Gilson and Lione in Ann Arbor, provides the basics of trademark law. Spink, an intellectual property specialist, provides a comprehensive overview of how to trademark your company’s property.
Interview with Dan Lohrmann, Chief Information Security Officer for the state of Michigan, who talks in detail about the cyberattack against the state’s computer network on March 27. Some 700 computers, mostly older models, were hit, slowing the entire state computer network and forcing some Secretary of State offices to temporarily close.
Interview with Dan Lohrmann, president of Michigan InfraGard, and the state of Michigan’s Chief Information Security Officer. Lohrmann talks about what Michigan InfraGard is, what it can do to protect the physical and cybersecurity of state businesses, and about its link to the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security.
Interview with Teri Takai, Michigan’s Chief Information Officer, talks about her keynote address at the March 30 Michigan Women’s Conference in which she will discuss the lack of women in technology. Takai also discusses the consolidation of Michigan’s data centers and the impact it will have on cutting the state’s computing costs - saving taxpayers money. Plus she outlines some new online services that will be offered in 2007.
Interview with Hugo Braun, a partner in North Coast Technology Investors in Ann Arbor. Braun co hosted a recent talk at the New Enterprise Forum on Venture Capital. His spin is not only do investors need to question entrepreneurs, but entrepreneurs should also question potential investors to make sure there is a good fit.
Interview with Mary Campbell, chairman of the Michigan Venture Capital Association, on the 21st Century Jobs Fund, a $2 billion effort by the state to fund promising technology and life sciences startups. Campbell also talks about what the state needs to do to not only create a more friendly environment for investors, but also entrepreneurs.
Interview with Randal Charlton, Wayne State University’s new Entrepreneur in Residence. Charlton, the outgoing CEO of Asterand, the human tissue bank company he founded at WSU’s TechTown in downtown Detroit, discusses his new role of helping Wayne State create dozens of companies like his. He also discusses the search process for his successor at Asterand.
Newsmaker Interview launches its inaugeral Elevator Pitch, a 3-minute audio presentation by a top executive at a Michigan-based technology or life sciences start up that is seeking investment. The prime criteria for inclusion in this series is the Elevator Pitch has the blessing of one of Michigan’s private equity finance or business-plan development networks. The first Elevator Pitch comes from Creative Byline, a West Michigan start up that hopes to become the Travelocity.Com of the book publishing world, matching authors to publishers.
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 Jeff Mason from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. on the status of the first 85 projects named by the state to receive start up funding. Some want it, some have said no, most already have received their checks. But some $34 million from the first round has yet to be allocated by the Michigan Strategic Fund.
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 Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon who said changes are coming to the 21st Century Jobs Fund to get more money into the hands of entrepreneurs who can commercialize technology rather than perform basic research that may have little chance of creating jobs - what Michigan desperately needs.
