Welcome to Entre
Entre: Noun: ahn-trey
1. abbrev. entrepreneur, 2. entrée, as in “the dish.”
Welcome to Entre: The way to connect to everything entrepreneur. Think of this site as your main course, an online regional resource. The info is organized into four sections (capital, incubators, advisory support and education). Click around. Bookmark us. Visit often.
5x5 Night: December 20
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 5:30pm. Grand Rapids Art Museum. Five ideas vie for a $5,000 grant, but that just makes things interesting. Most ideas don’t go far with one person and a little cash. So, we bring a stage and people and wine together. Ideas need other people. That’s why we do 5×5 Night.
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Startup Weekend: January 13-15
January 13-15, 2012. Event starts at 6pm on Friday at the Factory in Grand Rapids. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. It is known for its quick decisions, inventive problem solving, unique facilitation technique and letting the founders show what they can do. The program has already met with success in over 52 cities and 12 countries and growing! The participants that attend a Startup Weekend decide what they want to tackle over the weekend and come out at the end with several developed companies or projects. Attendees are responsible for bringing the same desire and passion to the project and walk out of the room with the task at hand, in a short 54 hours. Sound intense? It is.
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GRACC Annual Meeting: January 24
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 4-6pm. DeVos Place, 303 Monroe Ave. NW. The 2012 Annual Meeting will celebrate our members and all the ways Grand Rapids Business Rocks! You’ll hear from GR community and business leaders -- innovative people who are inspiring greatness in their organizations and the community as a whole. $50 member registration & $75 future member registration.
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ACE Conference 2012: January 31
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ Skyline High School in Ann Arbor. More details coming soon. The Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship is the place where Great Lakes region entrepreneurs gather to network, learn, and connect. Each year at ACE, you'll join an exciting, forward-thinking community of innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders - people like you who have the vision and drive to build new ventures for a new future.
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GLEQ Competition Awards Night: January 31
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ Skyline High School in Ann Arbor. Awards for the 2011 GLEQ Business Plan Competition will be awarded at the Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship event.
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Savvy Entrepreneur Series: February 21
Tuesday, February, 21, 2012 at 5pm-8:30pm. Contact the GVSU Center for Entrepreneurship at 616-331-7582 for local webcast details. Angel Investors: What are they looking for, how are they different from venture capitalists and why use them? How do they think about valuation?
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GVSU Business Plan Competition: March 29
March 29, 2012 at 6pm in Loosemore Auditorium on the GVSU Pew Grand Rapids Campus. The Business Plan Competition serves to stimulate and nourish the student entrepreneurial spirit. It seeks to encourage entrepreneurially oriented graduate and undergraduate students, from any major, to take key steps toward developing and growing new business ventures.
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Savvy Entrepreneur Series: April 10
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 5pm-8:30pm. Contact the GVSU Center for Entrepreneurship at 616-331-7582 for local webcast details. Cash Flow: What is it and how can you maximize it and best practices on how to compensate the executive team to sustain it. Even if you have no cash yet, this is a top priority to understand early and manage well.
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Regional Business Plan Competition: April 10
6pm on Thursday, April 10, 2012 at Calvin College. The Regional Business Plan Competition puts the winners of local collegiate Business Plan Competitions in a tournament of champions. Contestants represent respective schools including Aquinas, Calvin, Cornerstone, Davenport, Hope, GRCC and Grand Valley -- member schools of the West Michigan Colleges and Universities Group. In the Regional Business Plan Competition, contestants will submit a written business plan and give a 10-minute pitch about their innovative venture to a panel of veteran judges. Winners can take home a total of $5,500 in seed capital, as well as in-kind prizes designed to help bring the startup company's product or service to market.
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Savvy Entrepreneur Series: May 8
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 5pm-8:30pm. Contact the GVSU Center for Entrepreneurship at 616-331-7582 for local webcast details. Developing a Milestone Based Capital Raising Plan: Learn how to develop a milestone based realistic fundraising plan that is critical to success for technology-based high growth companies.
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EPIC Awards: May 16
May 16, 2012. 5:30 pm Registration & Reception; 6:15 pm Awards Program. Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. This dinner and awards celebration is a combination of three events that have long been on the Chamber’s calendar: the Small Business Celebration, Minority Business Celebration and Salute to West Michigan Business. The EPIC Awards (which stands for Entrepreneurial, Progressive, Innovative and Collaborative) recognizes businesses and individuals that support the community, demonstrate growth, are innovative, and have worked with others as mentors and collaborators.
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