Congratulations to the Top 25 for Momentum 2010!
AedisIT.com
Blue Bin
Bodega
Carbon Perks
College Rental Hunter
Cooking Among Friends
FlatTab
I Played Here
iCamera Crew
iWant
JaiPlace
LEAGr
My PT
Perfect Pitch
Phuse Card
PriceIt
Quilltree Community
Random Visual, LLC
Settle Today
The Screen
Theoryville
Three Circles, LLC
Urban.ag
Varsinet
won liners
We are really excited by this year’s turnout-45 great ideas from throughout the state! The Momentum Team is busy reviewing the applications and will announce the top 25 on our website by midnight on February 22nd. Be sure to check back then!
Hey Start-ups! The Momentum application is February 12th. We want to hear your ideas!
Still have questions? Stop by the Momentum Open House February 2nd.
Have questions? Want to get involved? Join us for the Momentum 2010 Launch Gathering! Learn more about Momentum 2010, mingle with the Momentum community and learn how you can plug in! Get the details on Facebook.
Momentum announced today that it is accepting applications for its 2010 program. Momentum is a pre-seed stage funding and incubation program that provides initial investments, mentoring and business launch assistance to entrepreneurs who have innovative web technology and application ideas.
Thanks to all of the mentors, speakers, sponsors, companies and the greater Momentum community for making our inaugural year a great success! The 12 week program is officially over, but the work has just begun. We have to keep the momentum going! Our start-ups are busy building their companies and pounding the pavement networking and pitching to investors. The mentors are meeting and brainstorming ways to increase Momentum’s impact and expand its outreach. And of course we continue to look for our next batch of great start-ups. Stay tuned for updates, events, and ways to get connected to the Momentum movement. We welcome your input!
As entrepreneurs, you must make sure that your company remains safe by ensuring that nothing enters it that could harm the business and nothing leaves that reduces the value. This entails choosing the best business entity, protecting intellectual property, and complying with governmental regulations. This was the topic of this week’s FastTrac session. Tom Williams from McGarry Bair stopped by to give us the scoop on intellectual property protection and choosing the right entity.
Tom Williams is an intellectual property and litigation attorney. He specializes in successful resolution of intellectual property and general business disputes. He encourages his clients to seek IP protection for the following reasons:
This week’s FastTrac session was about building and compensating your organizational team with a visit from Bruce Los of Gentex. We started out the session discussing all of the things to consider before beginning to build a team:
This week’s Speaker Dinner took place at the Colonial Clock Building Zeeland. While enjoying a fabulous dinner catered by Via Maria, the Momentum crew had a conversation on User Interface with Grant Carmichael, founder of ThinkXD.