start ups

Lathrup Village, Michigan (PRESS RELEASE – February 21, 2010) — Michigan First Credit Union (www.MichiganFirst.com) didn’t need the President’s recent State of Union Address to motivate its efforts to help small businesses.

This week, Michigan First launched its online business banking Web site MichiganFirstBusiness.com specifically designed with small businesses in mind.

Seattle, Washington (PRESS RELEASE – December 18, 2009) – www.RetailStartup.com is now available.

One stop; everything that’s needed. Finally! 2009 may result in the highest number of store closures in history.

There’s been a blood-bath of retail failures, bankruptcies and downsizing. But, you know what, retailing is NOT DEAD!

Not by a long shot.

Blomington (PRESS RELEASE – December 2, 2009) — Squad is a new company with an exciting product, a great work space, a talented team, no debt and almost no expenses.

While this may seem like a dream scenario for most start-ups, it is the norm for companies graduating from SproutBox.

With the launch of Squad, SproutBox continues to shoot down the conventional wisdom that the economic downturn makes starting a tech company an insurmountable task.

Twitter founder Biz Stone has confirmed that the network might take advertising at some stage.

More specifically he's refused to say it won't. The company has just revised its terms and conditions and as part of the overhaul Mr.

Stone has said on a blog that he's keeping the door open to advertising. So he's not saying no, he's not saying yes.

Innovation Works, headed by the former chief of Google in China, plans to focus on Internet and mobile computing technologies.

Lee Kai-Fu aims to fill a void of early stage funding of high-tech start-ups in China.

I started my 'IT Career' building and supporting machines for a local white box store. Later I moved into a development gig and learned Visual C++ was not for me.

I did learn, though, that I loved making machines talk to each other.

With this I moved into the SMB world as 'The IT Guy' for start-ups.

I built my way up to being the 'IT Manager' for dot-coms until THAT fell apart.

Now I provide tech support for a major computer manufacturer's Enterprise Server line.

I'm the OS and Software support analyst for my team.

(American Chemical Society) News media covering chemical sciences, small business and entrepreneurships are invited to join an American Chemical Society Small & Medium Business Webinar on opportunities for creating small business ventures for professionals, scientists and entrepreneurs.

Washington, DC (PRESS RELEASE - June17, 2009) SCORE “Counselors to America ’s Small Business” announces that Linda Gray of Dallas , Texas , has joined the SCORE Ask an Expert Blog at www.score.org.

Linda will offer her expertise and advice on a variety of business topics, including management, finances and disaster recovery.

CALL it a dot.com revival, a throwback to the late 1990s, when Web start-ups were mushrooming everywhere. More than 200 such outfits have popped up lately, up from just a handful just three years ago, estimates a group called Entrepreneur27 (e27).