New Enterprise Forum (NEF)
The Organization NEF is a not-for-profit, all volunteer organization founded in 1986 to help area entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Our membership includes investors, university officials, government representatives, legal and accounting firms, marketing and management consultants, and entrepreneurs.
The New Enterprise Forum, based in Southeastern Michigan, brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and business service providers to help new and emerging companies grow and prosper. NEF meets monthly for an evening of learning, sharing experiences, and making contacts. For more information about the New Enterprise Forum call 734-214-0104.
Mission:
To link entrepreneurs with management expertise, joint venture partners, mentors, business services, capital, and other critical resources.
The Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization
The Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization is the premier global entrepreneurship network serving more than 500 colleges and universities.
Mission:
The Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization informs, supports, and inspires college students to be entrepreneurial and seek opportunity through enterprise creation.
Small Businesses Administration (SBA)
Mission:
Maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by aiding, counseling, assisting and protecting the interests of small businesses and by helping families and businesses recover from national disasters.
SmartZones SM
Ann Arbor IT Zone
In November 1997 a group of University of Michigan professors read a Wall Street Journal Article that discussed the tale of Palo Alto, and what the city was doing to become the information engine to the California economy. The article spoke of private industry, government, and education organizations working together to achieve a goal for the good of everyone. This core group of professors felt the Ann Arbor community has the proper ingredient to do the same and contacted Bill Martin, a local commercial real estate developer here in Ann Arbor, and suggested he form a blue ribbon committee to start what is now the Ann Arbor IT Zone. The project started as a plan to wire the downtown area, which continues to be a core project of the Ann Arbor IT Zone.
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)
TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, California, USA. Although its birth name, The Indus Entrepreneurs, signifies the ethnic South Asian or Indus roots of the founders, TiE stands for Talent, Ideas and Enterprise. It is an open and inclusive organization that has rapidly grown to more than forty chapters in nine countries. TiE endeavors to cultivate and nurture the ecosystems of entrepreneurship and free-market economies everywhere, as it sees this to be the single most powerful instrument of prosperity.
Michigan Economic Development Organization (MEDC)
Whether you seek to expand or locate a business in Michigan, you don't need to do it alone MEDC delivers the services you need to succeed. You will have one of our 30 account managers assigned to serve as your single point of contact with Michigan's business services, even coordinating efforts with local officials.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Business Plans
- SBA Financing
- FAQ's on Financing Business with the SBA
Allbusiness.com
Allbusiness.com provides information, news and advice regarding starting, running and building a small business.
The Michigan Economy 1989-2002 Report
