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Actual Progress New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries:
Team Leader Mr. Johnathan Oswalt joswalt@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Our core product concept will allow businesses to cut software licensing and hardware expenditures drastically. Utilizing operations management techniques and proprietary algorithms, our service will leverage unused licenses in the corporation and cut licensing requirements by significant levels. Additionally, our service will streamline hardware requirements. If successful, our service would be utilizable by every computer using corporation in the world and any computer using consumers in the world with high speed connectivity.

Advanced Cooling Therapy, LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Dr. Erik Kulstad ekulstad@gmail.com Chicago, Illinois Additional team members desired? No	Coach Ms. Lee Gorman gorman@bartonconsultingservices.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Chief Engineer, Town Car and Product Planning Director, Sport Utility Vehicles at Ford Motor Company; Manager, Strategic Planning at Allied Signal Automotive; various positions in finance, marketing, engineering, and program management. Member of NEF and coach for entrepreneurs.
Business Concept: Advanced Cooling Therapy, LLC (ACT) is developing patent-pending, disposable medical devices enabling safer, more efficient and cost-effective patient temperature control that saves lives.

ALC Hosted Telecommunications Company Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Ms. Bettyanne Molitor bmolitor@goalc.net Chesterfield, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: At a time when people desire to work remotely, travel less, and get more done in their limited day online collaboration is essential. ALC provides hosted telecommunication services, eliminating the need for expensive on-site equipment and technical support. By managing infrastructure and equipment, hosted applications help to reduce cost, provides a simpler product to use, and assists organizations in keeping up to date with current technology. Days go fast data goes faster. Get more out of your day with conferencing from ALC

Amerilume Inc Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. William Kirchmeier william.kirchmeier@gmail.com Jackson, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Steve Rich steve@steverichlaw.com Ann Arbor , Michigan Coach Information: Steve is an IP, e-commerce, arts and general business attorney with additional experience as a technology product manager, community advocate and mediator. He currently advises entrepreneurs and tech - driven businesses, assisting with strategic alliances, dispute preemption, IP protection and licensing. With partner Michael Gatti he also offers litigation services in State and Federal courts.
Business Concept: Industrial and commercial LED Lighting

An Elegant Affair Production & Design New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Mr. Wisetta Neill wisetta@sbcglobal.net Pontiac, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Services Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Marketing Operations R&D / Design Sales Strategy	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Services Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Marketing Operations Sales Strategy
Business Concept: Corporate and social event planning business

Anja Mueller, company name NA New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Dr. Anja Mueller muell1a@cmich.edu Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Skills Needed: Executive Management Marketing	Coach Ms. Sandra Cochrane sandra_cochrane@gvsu.edu Kalamazoo, Michigan Coach Information: Sandra works with high tech entrepreneurs on their launch, commercialization, and growth strategies. She helps entrepreneurs effectively work through Michigan's network of resources to successfully grow their businesses and create economic impact. She also assists organizations that are developing business incubator facilities to maximize their potential for success.
Business Concept: We have developed a point-of-use filter for perchlorate that is compatible with e.g. Brita and is 300 times more effective. Perchlorate is a neurotoxin that retards brain development in children. EPA has just started regulation of perchlorate in drinking water. We could market to water treatment facilities before perchlorate treatment remediation and well owners. The technology is protected by a provisional patent by Central Michigan University; a full patent is in process. We are looking to build and test a prototype. The synthesis of the material and assembly of the filter will be licensed to an interested company.

Applied Engineering Technologies, Inc. New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. saad ghalib sghalib@ae-technologies.net Ann Arborn, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Skills Needed: Sales	Coach Mr. Thomas Heed theed@heedlawgroup.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Heed Law Group Title: Principal Attorney Novi, Michigan http://www.heedlawgroup.com Coach Information: I am a patent and small-business attorney with previous experience as an entrepreneur and as an executive in a Fortune 500 Company. I have experience in engineering, technical planning, program management, quality, and running service-based company. I have worked in automotive, consumer electronics, and transportation services.
Business Concept: AET provides technical support for the marketing of an innovative and patented technology known as the Treatment Shaft technology that eliminates untreated Combined and Sanitary Sewer Overflows, as mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This new technology can save 25-50% on construction costs compared to tunnels and other traditional CSO control alternatives

ArborWind, LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Dilip Nigam dilip@adsc-usa.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Grant Writing Marketing Operations Sales	Coach Ms. Lee Gorman gorman@bartonconsultingservices.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Chief Engineer, Town Car and Product Planning Director, Sport Utility Vehicles at Ford Motor Company; Manager, Strategic Planning at Allied Signal Automotive; various positions in finance, marketing, engineering, and program management. Member of NEF and coach for entrepreneurs.
Business Concept: Sell Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Are You a Human Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Reid Tatoris rtatoris@umich.edu Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Are You a Human is a Detroit based web startup that uses games for human verification online. Our games replace the distorted text images used today, known as CAPTCHAs. Our game solves the three main pains associated with CAPTCHAs: awful user experience, poor security, and reduced conversions by being simple, intuitive, and more secure.

Armstead Technologies, Inc Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Alternative Energy, Fund Raising / Venture Capital, IT / Internet, Life Sciences, New Product (industrial or consumer), Services
Team Leader Mr. Michael Armstead michael@armsteadtechnologies.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: L.E.D. Traffic Signal and pedestrian walk sign implementation.

Artisan Coffee Imports New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Wholesale food/Trading
Team Leader Ms. Ruth Church ruth.church@sbcglobal.net Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting	Coach Mr. Dennis Stepaniak dstepaniak3@frontier.com Saline, Michigan SFSC, LLC Dept: Consulting Title: Principal Saline, Michigan
Business Concept: Decaffeinated Green Coffee Imports

ArtJen Complexus USA LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Dr. Joseph Artiss jartiss@mirafit.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Life Sciences	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Weight Loss Tablet

AsfalisMed New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Travis Beaulieu twbeauli@mtu.edu Houghton, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Jim Morgenstern jm2@imagemining.net Ann Arbor, Michigan Image Mining Inc. Michigan http://www.ImageMining.net Coach Information: I have better than 25 years experience in developing sensor based systems for military, space and industrial use. I have been a core member of three startups. I currently consult with high tech companies to help them effectively market their products.
Business Concept: Medical ID System

Atlas Cuisine LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Hospitality / Food and Beverage
Team Leader Mr. Paul Silveri Paul@silveri.com Ferndale, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Grant Writing Strategy
Business Concept: Atlas Global Bistro www.altasglobalbistro.com We are a full service 80 seat bistro in the heart of Midtown Detroit. Atlas serves brunch, lunch and dinner and offers an eclectic variety of wines and spirits. Onsite and Offsite catering is available.

AutoBike LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Sean Simpson seansimpson1@gmail.com Troy, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Marketing Sales	Coach Ms. Jane DeLancey jdelance@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Michigan DeLancey Design Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.delanceydesign.com Coach Information: 20+ years providing a full range of design services for marketing. Services include web site development and design, collateral materials, trade show booths and displays. Marketing consultation for small businesses and individuals.
Business Concept: AutoBike, LLC was formed to introduce an entirely new bicycle riding experience to the occasional bicycle rider. Using an extremely simple to use system (just hop on and pedal approach), AutoBike is developing a proprietary automatic shifting technology that will increase the overall comfort and enjoyment level of riding a bicycle. AutoBike is well-positioned to exploit a large unmet demand in the bicycle sales marketplace.

Bantom Global Industries, Inc. New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Alternative Energy
Team Leader Ms. Rhonda Bantom rbantom@bantomglobalindustries.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Alternative Energy Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Executive Management Grant Writing Marketing Operations Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Alternative Energy Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Marketing Operations Sales
Business Concept: BGI is a contract manufacturing supplier of alterative and renewable energy products. We utilize the "One Stop Shop Program." BGI will assist reselling/marketing, manufacturing/distribution, logistics/transportation and installing/preventative maintenance.

Beet Analytics Technology Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, IT / Internet, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Edward Kim edward.kim@beetllc.com Plymouth, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Dave Havilland dave@phimation.com Ann Arbor, Michigan
Business Concept: Beet Analytics Technology brings the power of digital technology and advanced knowledge of factory automation together, creating a powerful and revolutionary Automation Intelligent System, ENVISION™. Patented ENVISION technology monitors and records every automated motion and process in real-time. ENVISION actually acts as an EKG of an automated system - comparing the actual process performance against ideal (design intended) cycle time to gauge the health of the system. ENVISION demystifies the industrial operations by digitizing each automated process down to every minute detail and presents it in a simple and intuitive way. ENVISION technology delivers higher productivity and profitability by enabling true Preventive Maintenance to minimize downtime, improve production throughput, and achieve faster problem solving.

Beltran Media dba Vista Latinos LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Ms. Terry Beltran Terry@BeltranMedia.com FLint, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing	Coach Mr. mark sendo mark.s6@comcast.net ann arbor, Michigan new Title: CEO Michigan www.bodegabid.com
Business Concept: Relationship Marketing

BioPhotonic Solutions Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Life Sciences, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Dr. Igor pastirk 1401 east lansing dr info@biophotonicsolutions.com east lansing, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Skills Needed: Marketing	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Emerging company

BioPhotonic Solutions, Inc Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Life Sciences, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Igor Pastirk pastirk@biophotonicsolutions.com East Lansing, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Marketing	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept:

Blaze Medical Devices Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Mr. David Weaver dweaver@blazemedicaldevices.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Blaze develops clinical tests to assess the quality of stored blood for improved transfusion efficacy.

Blue Water Bioproducts Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Kurt Kurple kurt.kurple@bluewaterbioproducts.com China, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Blue Water Bioproducts (BWB) offers cost competitive, high performance polyurethane resins manufactured from an environmentally friendly and renewable material. BWB polyurethane resins use a renewable material called lignin. Lignin is a naturally occuring polymer in plants. The BWB proprietary and patent-pending process harnesses the chemical value of lignin. BWB will produce a lignin polyurethane resin for the high performance specialty segment of the polyurethane industry. BWB will receive revenue from both production of its materials, and licensing its technology to larger capactiy polyurethane manufacturers.

Bounce: A social sounding board and workplace New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Ms. Rebecca Pierce becky_pierce@hotmail.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Greg George greg@gti-advisors.com Ann Arbor, Michigan GTI Advisors Dept: Threat Management Practice Group Title: Managing Partner Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.gti-advisors.com Coach Information: A risk and security advisor to the executive level in government and business (35 years), I assist decision makers with analyzing threat intelligence and mitigating equity investment, finance, M&A and operational risk of portfolio companies through directing enhanced due diligence research and analysis, compliance, collateral program oversight and training.
Business Concept: To encourage the physical and intellectual meeting/collaboration of people on the brink of creation and innovation.

Brian Koet / Fryer Clean LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Alternative Energy, Services
Team Leader Mr. Brian Koet kidkoet@wowway.com Plymouth, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Fund Raising / Venture Capital	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Services Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing Operations R&D / Design Recruiting / HR Sales Strategy
Business Concept: Fryer Clean provides a comprehensive fryer management services. Fryer Clean is a mobile on-site micro-filtration service that will extend the useful life of your cooking oil.

Brio Device New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Dr. Laura Walz llwalz@med.umich.edu Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Life Sciences	Coach Mr. John Berkaw john@berkaw.com Brighton, Michigan Berkaw & Berkaw LLC Title: Principal Brighton, Michigan Coach Information: Executive management experience in venture capital, investment banking, and corporate and private banking with both private (founded 5 companies) and public companies.
Business Concept: Brio Device is a medical device company introducing airway management instruments for emergency medical personnel to improve the efficacy and safety of opening patient airways in emergency situations.

Business Design Concepts, LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Mr. Jim Boughey jim.boughey@gmail.com Monroe, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing Sales	Coach Mr. Bob Brentin rpbrentin@gmail.com Midland, Michigan Coach Information: Extensive new product and business development experience in the chemical and plastics industry in technical and commercial implementation and leadership roles. Experience in eBusiness from concept to launch and e-enabling business operations. Proficient in new product development and management practices, particularly at the front end of innovation. Currently working on technology transfer and commercialization.
Business Concept: "Performance by Design". We design businesses to achieve their strategic goals. The key to performance is design, not strategy. Leaders have to design their businesses to allow them to execute certain strategies. Setting goals and developing strategies that can not be executed with the existing design is a waste of time and only leads to frustration. We document the existing design, assess whether the strategic goals are achievable with the existing design and make any adjustments. The new design is then implemented so that the strategies can be executed and performance goals can be met.

byBUYER.com New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Mr. David Mills dave@bybuyer.com Birmingham, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet	Coach Mr. Holly Bielawa hsb@agilegrowthstrategies.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Ms. Bielawa is an entrepreneur and market strategies with over 15 years of experience growing companies that offer new products and services to the market.
Business Concept: Isn’t it a pain buying or selling a home? Thinking "outside the box" we’ve developed a disruptive, elegant solution to the antiquated real estate industry, an industry that generates billions while simultaneously fostering disgruntled consumers. This business affects the largest financial decision of people’s lives. The real estate industry is a monopoly with the necessity for home listings and the requirement of belonging to The National Association of Realtors and adhering to their dictates. We break the monopoly by not being home listing (traditional MLS) dependant. We “list” the Home Buyer. Think of it as eHarmony for real estate.

C3M Technologies, LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing
Team Leader Ms. c franko cfranko@globaltech.us Troy, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Greg George greg@gti-advisors.com Ann Arbor, Michigan GTI Advisors Dept: Threat Management Practice Group Title: Managing Partner Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.gti-advisors.com Coach Information: A risk and security advisor to the executive level in government and business (35 years), I assist decision makers with analyzing threat intelligence and mitigating equity investment, finance, M&A and operational risk of portfolio companies through directing enhanced due diligence research and analysis, compliance, collateral program oversight and training.
Business Concept: Non_Autoclave Fast Cycle Process for Advanced Composites

Care N Transports & Divirsitites New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Fund Raising / Venture Capital, Services
Team Leader Mrs. elaine mitchell mylifeismypoem@hotmail.com detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Services Skills Needed: Grant Writing Marketing Operations	Coach Mr. Robert Kiss rkiss@emich.edu Ypsilanti, Michigan
Business Concept: To demonstrate Care and patience together as a whole to create an atmosphere of hope shared development and growth.

CitySimulation LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Donald Fullenwider drfullenwider@gmail.com Plymouth , Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Marketing	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Marketing Sales Strategy
Business Concept: An internet-based VR urban simulation product

CleanWorld Fuels llc Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Alternative Energy, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Jonathon Egle jonegle@comcast.net Troy, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Strategy	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Strategy
Business Concept: Lower emmisions and save fuel with intellecual property of hydrogen-on-demand generator for the internal combustion engine world wide.

Clever Cloud Computing,LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Adam Gibson agibson@clevercloudcomputing.com Houghton, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Cloud Computing with siri in the web browser

Climate Technolopgies Corporation New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Scott Ringlein SRinglein@GMail.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Executive Management Marketing R&D / Design Sales Strategy	Coach Mr. Mark Anthony Reynolds reynolds@a2growbiz.org Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Mark's career has been driven by new product develop in consumer, services, and software. His background that mixes sales, sales management and marketing. Mr. Reynolds is particularly skilled as building presentations aimed at investors, board members or buyers.
Business Concept: Volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) are produced in a variety of processes. The cost to install and operate abatement systems necessary to meet regulations is significant. Conventional technologies use “capture and burn” method. Exhaust gas streams are incinerated using significant amounts of natural gas to combust, creating significant fuel expenses and greenhouse emissions (CO2). Climate Technologies has developed “Fumes-to-Fuel” technology to concentrate VOC’s and increase the value of the gas stream entering a power generator to produce electricity. This renewable energy solution reduces up front and operating costs, improves performance and generates electricity and marketable greenhouse credits while exceeding VOC regulations.

CloudIgloo New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Mr. Darius Banasik dbanasik@umich.edu Ypsilanti, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Mike Bills mike@mbstrategiesllc.com Williamston, Michigan Coach Information: Experienced strategic planning and business coach. Extensive background working with business owners and executive level mentoring
Business Concept: CloudIgloo provides home residents a cloud-based interactive service that enables them to input, store and manage the contents of their home in an engaging virtual environment. The service frees residents from keeping paper files of manuals, receipts, warrantees, contractor information and invoices. It also enables them to create and join a local social network of neighbors.

CompCustomz Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Jacob Dowdy jdowdy@compcustomz.com Macomb, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Services Skills Needed: Marketing Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet
Business Concept: Our concept is to offer quality, fully mobile IT services. From setting up home networking, repairs, upgrades, builds, monthly maintenance for offices, we are trying to eliminate the "lug it to the store" times, along with the "pickup/delivery" times. Being able to sell, and work with a system at your location will be a huge benefit for the consumer

ContainEarth New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Mr. Raphael Meyer raphael.meyer@gmail.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Operations R&D / Design	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: ContainEarth intends to solve the problem of waste created in coffee shops by developing an innovative and profitable system for managing, cleaning, and reusing coffee cups in the coffee retail sector.

CraveYU New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Mr. Adham Aljahmi adhamaljahmi@gmail.com detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing Operations Recruiting / HR Sales Strategy	Coach Mr. John Di Giacomo johndigiacomo@gmail.com Traverse City, Michigan Traverse Legal, PLC Title: Attorney Traverse City, Michigan http://www.traverselegal.com Coach Information: I am an Internet and intellectual property attorney that specializes in copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, e-commerce issues, data protection, and international data transfer compliance.
Business Concept: Mobile applications designed for local restaurants.

CrowdJuice Corporation New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Ed Farrell edwinfarrell@gmail.com Saline, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Ken Kousky kkousky@ip3inc.com University Center, Michigan Coach Information: I am an experienced entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in software and technology from startups to public companies, having founded and took public an independent technology company. As a CEO and founder of three companies, I have experience in raising venture capital, consulting, executive management, operations, business development and product marketing.
Business Concept: CrowdJuice connects professionals to the right events and to the right people at events to make them more productive and successful. For event organizers, CrowdJuice provides a way to attract more attendees and make them happier.

CYJ Enterprises, LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Ms. Carole Johnson cjohnson@cyjenterprises.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Executive Management Grant Writing Marketing Operations Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Marketing Sales
Business Concept: Online collaboration and communication system for Senior Service Providers

DataSpeaks, Inc. Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Life Sciences
Team Leader Dr. Curtis Bagne cbagne@dataspeaks.com Troy, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Life Sciences Services	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Life Sciences Services Skills Needed: Executive Management Operations Strategy
Business Concept: DataSpeaks offers proprietary measurement software as a service that will help improve pharmaceutical industry productivity, protect patient safety, enable personalized medicine, facilitate comparative effectiveness research, and make higher quality healthcare more affordable.

Eagle Automation Services Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Ms. Elizabeth Hohauser liz@eagleautomation.com Oakland, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Dave Havilland dave@phimation.com Ann Arbor, Michigan
Business Concept: We provide programing, mechanical and electrical services to automated industrial systems.

Easy Artisan Bread Mix Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Anthony Menyhart tony.menyhart@easyartisanbread.com Tecumseh, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Sales	Coach Mr. Mark Anthony Reynolds reynolds@a2growbiz.org Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Mark's career has been driven by new product develop in consumer, services, and software. His background that mixes sales, sales management and marketing. Mr. Reynolds is particularly skilled as building presentations aimed at investors, board members or buyers.
Business Concept: A method of making yeast bread so easy that use will increase by consumers and institutions such as schools thus improving nutrition.

ECO Systems & Technologies, LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Environmental/Clean Water/Energy Savings
Team Leader Mr. James Kiner j.kiner@ecosystemstechnologies.com Clatkston, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital
Business Concept: Wastewater Treatment Systems- low energy use, low life-cycle cost including low operations & maintenance costs, low solid waste, many additional advantages.

Eco-Fueling LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Paul Chandler paul.chandler@eco-fueling.com Saline, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: ECO-Fueling of Saline is a Michigan LLC founded by Paul Chandler in 2009 to develop and sell a “diesel assist” product for the transportation industry. The Eco-Fueling “diesel assist” system increases fuel economy, improves performance and reduces emissions in diesel engines by injecting atomized ethanol into the combustion chamber. The Eco-Fueling “diesel assist” system provides significant ROI to vehicles of all sizes.

EcoUnity New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy, Services
Team Leader Mr. Kyle Burke keburke17@gmail.com East Lansing, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing R&D / Design	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing
Business Concept: Personal carbon footprint management website that generates funds for community oriented sustainble projects

EduTech Haptic Solutions Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Ms. Ana Tomboulian tomb2190@kettering.edu Flint, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Steve Feinman sfeinman@mindspring.com Dexter, Michigan Coach Information: Extensive experience in business development, marketing and program management for start up and ongoing businesses in government contracts, IT operation, software development, and construction
Business Concept: Haptic Application for Educational Simulation

ElectroDynamic Applications, Inc. Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Jonathan Zagel zagel@edapplications.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: ElectroDynamic Applications, Inc. (EDA) has developed in-house a lab-proven, game changing process known as the Massey-Peterson Reaction™ (MPR™) to produce silane directly using its base components, raw silicon and hydrogen, bypassing the expensive and dangerous systems currently used for its production and distribution. This patent pending process represents a groundbreaking innovation that is disruptive to the current value chain of silane gas and whose IP is completely owned by EDA.

Employ Efficient New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Randel Tomina randeltomina@gmail.com Oak Park, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Employ Efficient is a website allowing companies to outsource their hiring needs, saving applicant’s time. Job applications take a long time, usually about 45 minutes and are very redundant, usually consisting of going to a company’s page, clicking careers, inserting personal information, uploading a resume, and repeating for each different company. I would like to create a database that allows for a user to enter their information one time and use that information to apply to multiple positions in multiple companies. This would be a huge time saver. For the company, they would save money by outsourcing to Employ Efficient.

Enginer Inc Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Jack Chen chenyj@enginer.us Troy, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Grant Writing Marketing
Business Concept: Enginer Inc. has developed an innovative commercial Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Add-On Kit that increases MPGs by 40-100% - resulting in hybrids averaging 80+ MPGs. Founded in 2008, Enginer has installed over 800 kits in hybrid vehicles around the globe. Through continuous improvements in technology and manufacturing, Enginer kits are proven and reliable. Automotive consumers are eager to reduce fuel consumption and Enginer is ready to expand its commercialization. With minor modifications, the Enginer kit battery core can be used as a source of emergency backup power. The Enginer Research and Development team is currently prototyping additional fuel economy improvement devices for deployment in all internal combustion engines (ICEs) that will produce future revenue streams. There are over 3 million hybrid vehicles worldwide. The introduction of the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf is leading to widespread acceptance of alternatives to ICEs. Enginer provides a PHEV Add-on Kit which modifies late model hybrids, increasing efficiency by 40-100%, is easy to install and less expensive than buying a new $30,000 hybrid vehicle. The target price for plug-in kit is $4,000. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Enginer competitors charge between $5,500 and $12,000 for similar products.

ENRG Power Systems LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing
Team Leader Mr. Milton Roye MRoye@ENRGPower.com Grand Rapids, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Retrofit plasma ignition system to improve gas-engine truck fuel economy and reduce GHG emissions.

Ensuright Industrial Technologies, L.L.C. New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Clark Vaughan clarkvaughan111@yahoo.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing R&D / Design Sales Strategy	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing R&D / Design Strategy
Business Concept: To develop and commercialize the ‘Data-Plate’ system, an RFID-enabled accident deterrent/risk management intralogistics solution that addresses 53% of the causal factors for industrial vehicle injuries and fatalities.

eRent New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Mr. Zubair Ahsan ahsanz@sanobio.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Solving the problems of landlords and tenants surrounding rent collection and accounting.

ERollins Group Fashion Marketing Firm Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Fund Raising / Venture Capital, Services, Marketing
Team Leader Ms. Leticia Fisher erollinsgroup.creative@gmail.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Fund Raising / Venture Capital	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: The ERollins Group works with all types of high-end fashion professionals, from fashion designers to stylist, models and boutiques to help construct a concise, creative, and effective brand and marketing approach for their company. A strong image coupled with an even stronger position in the fashion industry is what separates our clients from their competition. We work to strengthen our clients' business model, determine their competitive advantage, and implement a growth strategy designed to help fashion professionals succeed. Our suite of services helps clients identify and essentially reach their target market. We help with putting together a true identity and assist in implementing a strategic and focused marketing campaign for each client.

EverReading New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Dr. Todd Robinson todd.robinson@everreading.com Lansing, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Paul Durance pdurance@huronsystems.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Huron Systems, Inc. Title: Director, I/T Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.huronsystems.com/ Coach Information: Paul W. Durance, PhD has thirty years of experience in Healthcare I/T. With an education in Industrial Engineering, he has held positions as a software engineer, college instructor and health services researcher. Currently, he is addressing the information challenges and business needs of large healthcare organizations as partner and consultant with Huron Systems, Inc.
Business Concept: Renting ebooks directly to customers

EVo New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Brittney Wright britwrig@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Grant Writing Marketing Operations Sales Strategy	Coach Ms. Jane DeLancey jdelance@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Michigan DeLancey Design Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.delanceydesign.com Coach Information: 20+ years providing a full range of design services for marketing. Services include web site development and design, collateral materials, trade show booths and displays. Marketing consultation for small businesses and individuals.
Business Concept: EVo is a new and unique hair extension that uses an innovative and patentable manufacturing technique that creates a significantly superior hair extension than those on the market today. The EVo hair extension will be sold in several different lengths, colors, and hair textures. Prices will vary given the different varieties and styles of the hair extension. Customers will be able to purchase the EVo hair extension through the EVo website or through hair extension distributers (Beauty supply stores and online hair extension super-stores). EVo’s target customers are women who use methods to lengthen and thicken their current hair styles.

EVoCharge Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Adam Remesz adam.r@evocharge.com Clinton Township, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: EVoReeL products, made in the USA by EVoCharge, LLC, are the next Evolution of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). Developed by a team of automotive and aerospace industry experts with input from actual electric car owners, the sleek, innovative design of the EVoReeL provides easy, convenient charging for electric vehicles.

FamilyMint, Inc. Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Mr. Robert Masterson bob@familymint.com Rochester Hills, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Marketing Sales	Coach Mrs. Miche Suboski miche@kaibusiness.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Kai Business Title: Executive Advisor Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.suboski.com Coach Information: My passion is to be involved in the start up and concentration phases of companies. Operations in particular is something that comes quite easily and is enjoyable. Designing and implementing recruiting processes has also been enjoyable and rewarding.
Business Concept: FamilyMint is an award-winning personal financial management and goal-setting tool that offers an engaging way for kids to learn financial responsibility. The online application is easy to use, let's kids connect their money with real-world meaning, and most importantly, learn by doing. Parents manage the child’s account, automating allowances, helping set goals, and offering incentives. Through the FamilyMint Partner Program, FamilyMint is partnering with credit unions, banks, financial advisors, and other organizations that value financial education for children and their parents. FamilyMint helps these organizations connect to future influential consumers and provides effective financial education where children learn by doing.

FAXJAX.COM, Inc. New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, New Product (industrial or consumer), Services
Team Leader Ms. Nancy Stanton nancy@faxjax.com Rockford, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Marketing Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Marketing Sales
Business Concept: We provide an efficient SELLING SYSTEM that combines on-line classified advertising with a special custom digital sign that is affixed much like traditional "FOR SALE" or "FOR RENT" signs. The difference is the custom digital code that directs an interested party directly to the on-line classified ad. A "Visual-to-Virtual" connection saving time and money. These sign systems are available in retail and on-line stores.

Fayceoff New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. mark sendo markdotcom5@gmail.com ann arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet	Coach Mr. Richard Miga rlmiga@ssyes.com Livonia, Michigan Coach Information: An Information Processing Architect, Engineering Professional, software/Web/Cloud Designer/Developer, Innovator, Creator, Builder, Project Manager, and General Partner of Synergistic Solutions.Extensive career experience in R&D, telephony, IT/software, manufacturing, automotive aerospace, consumer, military industries. Established/founded 5 startup organizations and a Certified Mentor at TechTown. CV:http://mrmiga.entryhost.com/richard/Richard_L_Miga_Resume.pdf
Business Concept: Bodega/Faceoff is a social trading network... Bodega plans to become the largest Facebook and Mobile gaming marketplace on the planet, providing gamers the ability to trade virtual goods with their fellow gamers and friends

Figure 8 Rescue Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Chad Green chadoweasel@gmail.com Linden, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Grant Writing Marketing	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Figure 8 Rescue has developed a new and patent pending infant and child rescue device for use primarily in the fire service.

FridgeNality New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, New Product (industrial or consumer), Services
Team Leader Mrs. Deanna Lawrence deanna.lawrence@pallino1021.com Temperance, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Grant Writing	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet
Business Concept: Building sustainable social media connections. Aggregation of social media content is inevitable. People are keen to stay connected, but are frustrated with the task of monitoring multiple platforms. Built with user experience at the heart of every element, FridgeNality is a social media dashboard that not only aggregates a user’s social media connections, but at the same time enables targeted brand connections, and a system of learning. FridgeNality is designed to learn from each and every interaction.

Fusion Coolant Systems Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing
Team Leader Mr. Andrew McColm sjones@fusioncoolant.com Ypsilanti, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Grant Writing R&D / Design
Business Concept: Next generation metalworking fluids for machining and metal forming

GANTEC Inc Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Mr. Jonathan Hamilton jonathanhamilton@gantecinc.com Midland, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Life Sciences Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Marketing Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Life Sciences Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing Sales
Business Concept: GANTEC is a natural products bio-technology company. We identify extremophylic plants that thrive in difficult environments and develop supply chains of the renewable portions of these plants to our manufacturing facility in Midland. High tech extraction, separation, and formulation processes are applied to produce concentrates that are applied to plants. Plants can be grown with a reduction in fertilizers and synthetics and increase yields.

GCI Global Healthcare Solutions LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Healthcare Services
Team Leader Mr. Naren Balasubramaniam naren@gcighs.com Canton, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: GCI Global Healthcare Solutions provides self-insured employers access to affordable world-class healthcare and net cost reduction to their employees. By offering elective surgeries at negotiated rates through a network of domestic and foreign centers of excellence hospitals, our healthcare solution presents employers the opportunity to reduce cost of high complexity, high volume elective surgeries by 20% to 70% while improving clinical quality and healthcare outcomes.

Genome Dynamics International Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Dr. Martin Bluth toxdocs@gmail.com Southfield, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing Strategy	Coach Ms. Lori Moshier lmoshier@novaetus.com Walled Lake, Michigan Novaetus, Inc Title: President Walled Lake, Michigan http://novaetus.com Coach Information: Over 25 years experience in marketing and sales. I provide support to both start-ups and established companies with both strategic marketing... understanding target markets, developing their unique value proposition, determining budgets, media placement, etc.; and with tactical marketing...developing their logo and identity package, lead generators, and marketing tools and collateral.
Business Concept: Biomarker discover through blood component based mining platform

Glyph New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Financial Services
Team Leader Mr. Michael Vichich michael.vichich@gmail.com Brighton, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet	Coach Mr. John Berkaw john@berkaw.com Brighton, Michigan Berkaw & Berkaw LLC Title: Principal Brighton, Michigan Coach Information: Executive management experience in venture capital, investment banking, and corporate and private banking with both private (founded 5 companies) and public companies.
Business Concept: Secure mobile payments

GO Team New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Harley Luplow luplow@chartermi.net Harbor Springs, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Operations Sales	Coach Mr. Lee Walko lee.walko@charter.net Midland, Michigan Walko Consulting Title: President Midland, Michigan http://www.walkoconsulting.com Coach Information: Extensive experience in New business, product and technology development, in chemicals, alternative energy/feedstocks and coatings. Experience includes commercial, technical and financial particularly in the front end of exploration and innovation.
Business Concept: EveryonesTruth.com provides a forum where people can focus on their political issues, give and get opinions, educate themselves and others, test their knowledge and craft informed legislative solutions with accountability features that are put forth for a vote that is tallied based on respondents’ knowledge of their issues. Government leaders will be influenced, not by special interests, rather by an informed constituency.

GO Team LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Harley Luplow harley@gollc.us Harbor Springs, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Executive Management Grant Writing Marketing Operations R&D / Design Recruiting / HR Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Sales
Business Concept: Website that provides lists of top national and state issues, along with related history, facts, expert opinions, summaries of key viewpoints, draft legislation with results-based accountability metrics, and provides straw polls on issues where voters take a quiz where the poll results are weighted based up voter knowlege. Pollsters can measure the impact of campaign events vis-a-vis changes in voter quiz scores. Also has voter profile information (demographic, geographic, and lifestyle datat). Revenue sources are general ads, user targeted ads, data analysis and anonymized data.

Googenius (Applied Cartooning) Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Wade Gugino Wade@Googenius.com Holland, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Grant Writing Sales	Coach Mr. Fred Pieplow fpieplow@mannamanagement.biz St. Joseph, Michigan Manna Management, LLC Title: President St. Joseph, Michigan http://mannamanagement.biz Coach Information: Operations and general management experience in software development and manufacturing firms. Assisting small businesses in goal setting and other management issues since 2004.
Business Concept: Using cartoons and informational stories to layout and explain difficult concepts in business, education and health care in memorable and enjoyable ways.

GPX Software, LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Fund Raising / Venture Capital, IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Mr. Richard Goldstein rjgoldstein@gpxsoftware.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Strategy	Coach Mr. Al Kortesoja alkortesoja@aol.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Independent Management Consultant specializing in strategy and operational improvement for internal IT organizations and for providers of IT products and services, both large and small. Extensive successful entrepreneurial experience.
Business Concept: GPX Software (GPX) is a Michigan LLC founded in 2009 by Richard Goldstein and Matthew Pickus. GPX is targeting the widespread financial planning problems of the small business market (SMB). According to the US-SBA, five out of six new businesses fail in the 1st year of operations. Additionally, SMB’s have a +50% loan rejection rate from Proforma errors. Two reasons are: 1. Lack of financial acumen by managers 2. SMB’s won’t pay hourly costs from accountants/consultants equating to $3,000 to $10,000/yr. to build spreadsheets GPX developed Xambrosius Business Intelligence Tools to solve these pervasive SMB problems. The strategy is: • Reduce material information errors, hardware/software costs and the time to deliver a Proforma from spreadsheets by 80% through a cloud-based, TurboTax®-like, customizable, pre-programmed financial planning/analytics product • Offer intuitive, step-by-step wizards, data-mining, dashboards, and pre-populated comparable company data, to deliver key performance indicators against comparable benchmarks • Use web-based “Co-Branding” partnerships and Search Engine Optimization to position Xambrosius above the fold GPX will become the leader in the $1 billion SMB segment of the +$10 billion business intelligence market by: • Building/leveraging relationships with accountants, consultants, banks, and credit unions that service the SMB market • Training accountants/consultants as part of their continuing education requirements

Green Diesel, Inc. New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Dr. Joe Helgert jhgreend@sbcglobal.net Grand Rapids, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Alternative Energy Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Recruiting / HR	Coach Ms. Sandra Cochrane sandra_cochrane@gvsu.edu Kalamazoo, Michigan Coach Information: Sandra works with high tech entrepreneurs on their launch, commercialization, and growth strategies. She helps entrepreneurs effectively work through Michigan's network of resources to successfully grow their businesses and create economic impact. She also assists organizations that are developing business incubator facilities to maximize their potential for success.
Business Concept: Mobile biodiesel processor for developing countries.

GreenSand Corporation New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Domenic Popko dcpopko@greensandcorp.com Lake Linden, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Recycling and Reuse of Copper Industrial Waste Product into Useful Commercial Products

Grip Gear New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Robert Bates gripgearllc@gmail.com Howell, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing Sales Strategy	Coach Mr. Terry MacEwen TMacEwen@advicoach.com South Lyon, Michigan AdviCoach Title: Regional AdviCoach South Lyon, Michigan http://www.advicoach.com/tmacewen Coach Information: AdviCoaches work with business owners to improve profits, build teams and releive the stresses of running their business. We utilize a process of Awareness, Education and Accountability to insure owners are working on their business not just in their business.
Business Concept: I came up with a work garment that has a dot grip pattern printed on specific areas to help a worker carry more product, drop less product, have less chance of injury from awkwardly catching products sliding from grasp. I have a patent pending on the idea.

Grown Up Foods New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Eric Smith grownupfoods@yahoo.com Grand Blanc, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Grant Writing Operations	Coach Mr. Ed Usewick efusewick@aol.com Grand Blanc, Michigan Kettering Dept: TechWorks Title: Technical Advisory Professional Flint, Michigan
Business Concept: Agribusiness

guitar-learning.com New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Derek Stottlemyer derek@stottlemyer.com Southfield, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet	Coach Mr. Nimish Desai nimish.desai@lpl.com Farmington Hills, Michigan LPL Financial Title: Wealth Advisor, CFP ® Farmington Hills, Michigan Coach Information: Nimish is a Chemical Engineer and after receiving his MBA, Nimish worked for Citicorp in the CFO office in NY and Brussels, Belgium. He has entrepreneurial experience starting up and managing a small business in Michigan. He is currently a Wealth Advisor and a Certified Financial Planner ™ Professional working with small businesses and business owners. Strengths: Strategic thinking, Business Plans, Finance, Business Development, HR, 25+ years of industry experience.
Business Concept: Create the hub for all aspects of learning guitar (and other stringed instruments), allowing teachers to excel in communication with a global audience of players.

H3D Inc New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer), Defense/Homeland Security
Team Leader Dr. Weiyi Wang wywang@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Holly Bielawa hsb@agilegrowthstrategies.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Ms. Bielawa is an entrepreneur and market strategies with over 15 years of experience growing companies that offer new products and services to the market.
Business Concept: H3D Inc is an early-stage provider of a new breed of high-precision, easily-portable radiation detection sensors which provide the unique ability to visualize, in real time, the precise 3-dimensional location and isotopic composition of radioactive materials. These sensors are based on revolutionary gamma sensing technology developed by the company’s founders at the University of Michigan. H3D’s sensors give governmental agencies, local, regional, and national-level law enforcement agencies, and nuclear power plants unique and significant new capabilities which help them better prevent, detect and respond to nuclear threats and accidents.

Harvest Michigan Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Retail/Wholesale
Team Leader Mrs. Yvette Berman info@harvestmichigan.com Clarkston, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Operations Strategy	Coach Mr. Alexander Masters mast3240@kettering.edu Flushing, Michigan Kettering University Dept: Tech Works Title: Fellow Flint, Michigan www.ku-tw.com Coach Information: I have limited experience within many professional fields, but compensate with the ability to strategize and analyze multiple issues or events in many different areas. This provides a clearer definition of current problems or risk areas, while also aiding in providing a solution and prevention plan.
Business Concept: To create a paradigm shift in the regional food system through implementation of information technology, domestic fair trade and increasing sustainable supply/crop production to the Michigan food system, and increase our triple bottom line – consumers, planet and prosperity. Our vision is to establish authenticity behind every product that is grown and produced for Harvest Michigan.

Health Care Concepts New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Life Sciences, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. John Hopkins johndhopkins1@gmail.com Rives Junction, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Fund Raising / Venture Capital Life Sciences New Product (industrial or consumer) Services Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing Operations Sales Strategy	Coach Ms. MaryAnn Labant malabant@comcast.net Saline, Michigan Coach Information: For over 20 years, MaryAnn Labant has worked with companies to define, focus and build upon their market strengths to achieve their business and revenue goals. During her career MaryAnn has had a leadership role in every aspect of marketing from strategic business, market and product planning, international business development to results-oriented communication and promotions management.
Business Concept: Cabinets made of Anti-microbial Material for healthcare applications. and new ceiling tile development project

Healthcare 3.0 New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Life Sciences
Team Leader Mr. Benjamin J. Wailes III bwailes@umflint.edu Flint, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Business process management for electronic health records and health information exchange.

Healthy Lifestyle New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: baked goods
Team Leader Mr. micheal Davis michael.brandon.davis@gmail.com Whitehll, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Skills Needed: Strategy
Business Concept: cookie company

Healthy Patterns New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Life Sciences, Services
Team Leader Ms. Khadija Walker-Fobbs khadija@fobbs.net Lathrup Village, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing	Coach Mr. Wesley Huffstutter wes_huffstutter@yahoo.com Ann Arbor, Michigan University of Michigan Dept: Office of Technology Transfer Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.techtransfer.umich.edu Coach Information: Help start companies based on U-M technology
Business Concept: Healthy Patterns is a company that fosters self-managed healthy lifestyles through proprietary software, technology and community outreach. The company products include a phone based software technology for diabetic and pre-diabetic patients, a web based lifestyle tracking tool for people to set goals and record their nutrition and exercise behaviors, and a health cre promotion website that alerts users about current savings and resources. Data from users of all systems will be collected and analyzed for trends and behavioral insights. Healthy Patterns tools serve the purpose of promoting accountability, fostering improved communication within health systems, educating users and supporting access to local resources.

Herbal Lodge LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Nathan Wright nathan@herballodge.com Petoskey, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing Fund Raising / Venture Capital Services Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Operations Sales	Coach Mrs. Shenandoah Chefalo info@chefalolaw.com Traverse City, Michigan Chefalo Coaching & Consulting Title: Owner Traverse City, Michigan Coach Information: i beleive in coaching the person and the company. You can't have one without the other. I also am a strong beleiver in the idea that EVERY goal can be accomplished with the right team!
Business Concept: Natural Healing Products by Native American Wisdom

Hippo Evidence Bags, LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries:
Team Leader Mr. Raymond Shaw raymondshaw@hippoevidencebags.com Farmington Hills, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: The Hippo Manufacturing Company is a niche manufacturer of Tamper Proof products marketed to government, law enforcement, health care entities and pet owners. Due to the current state of forensic testing and health care as well as the necessity to gather evidence and samples without breaching integrity or exposing to biohazards, Hippo’s products marketed toward this audience offer a needed dimension to the market. And in its primary market segment, Forensic Gathering and Testing, Hippo Manufacturing will be able to increase the crime conviction rate because of its products maintaining the integrity of the forensic evidence.

hotatyourspot.com Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Vince McIsaac vince.mcisaac@hotatyourspot.com Shelby Township, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Skills Needed: Marketing R&D / Design Recruiting / HR Sales
Business Concept: online promotional tool using our internal software developed to help event planners, musicians, restaurants and the entertainment industry promote and expand their following via viral and guerrilla marketing growth

HPSA LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Martin Jerome hpsallc@aol.com West Bloomfield, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Bob Brentin rpbrentin@gmail.com Midland, Michigan Coach Information: Extensive new product and business development experience in the chemical and plastics industry in technical and commercial implementation and leadership roles. Experience in eBusiness from concept to launch and e-enabling business operations. Proficient in new product development and management practices, particularly at the front end of innovation. Currently working on technology transfer and commercialization.
Business Concept: Alternative energy hydrogen powered light to heavy aircraft propulsion system

HPSA Power Company New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Allan Jerome hpsapowercompany@aol.com west bloomfield, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Marketing Strategy	Coach Mr. Steven Enwright senwright@tomkiwenwright.com Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Dickinson Wright PLLC Title: Attorney Bloomfield Hills, Michigan http://www.dickinsonwright.com Coach Information: Relevant experience as a business attorney, entrepreneur and investor. Drafted and reviewed many business plans, offering memoranda and various other private equity/venture capital documents. Served as in-house General Counsel to $50M marketing agency.
Business Concept: Alternative Energy Power Generation System

Hydraulic Innovations, LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing
Team Leader Mr. Frank Walker fhwalker.hillc@gmail.com Almont, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Stephen Schmitt sschmitt@changefrog.com Plymouth, Michigan Coach Information: I have worked in the financial services arena primarily in the areas of marketing, service delivery, team development and strategy. My MBA and other learning, provides a wide variety of business expertise.
Business Concept: Radial piston hudraulic machines.

Hygia New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Life Sciences, Healthcare
Team Leader Mr. Kevin Denholm scott@myhygia.com Rochester Hills, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Thomas Heed theed@heedlawgroup.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Heed Law Group Title: Principal Attorney Novi, Michigan http://www.heedlawgroup.com Coach Information: I am a patent and small-business attorney with previous experience as an entrepreneur and as an executive in a Fortune 500 Company. I have experience in engineering, technical planning, program management, quality, and running service-based company. I have worked in automotive, consumer electronics, and transportation services.
Business Concept: Hygia rewards healthy behaviors and adherence to treatment plans. Our interactive technology platform improves the bottom line of companies through engaged patients and increased product consumption.

i-Cartographer.com New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Thomas Foydel tfoydel@sightlinesconsulting.com Washington, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Marketing R&D / Design	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Online business directory offering extensive research and analysis of web enabled services, from software to telecomm to professional services.

I.T. Girl New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Services, Non Profit
Team Leader Ms. Niesha Amos niesha.amos@gmail.com Southfield, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Nimish Desai nimish.desai@lpl.com Farmington Hills, Michigan LPL Financial Title: Wealth Advisor, CFP ® Farmington Hills, Michigan Coach Information: Nimish is a Chemical Engineer and after receiving his MBA, Nimish worked for Citicorp in the CFO office in NY and Brussels, Belgium. He has entrepreneurial experience starting up and managing a small business in Michigan. He is currently a Wealth Advisor and a Certified Financial Planner ™ Professional working with small businesses and business owners. Strengths: Strategic thinking, Business Plans, Finance, Business Development, HR, 25+ years of industry experience.
Business Concept: Organization designed to encouraging young girls to pursue careers in technology.

InfiChem Polymers, LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing
Team Leader Mr. Ibrahim Sendijarevic sendijarevic@infichempolymers.com Sterling Heights, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Advanced Manufacturing New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Operations	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: InfiChem Polymers, LLC (“the Company”) was formed in 2009 to commercialize its proprietary chemical process for recycling of polyurethane scrap, otherwise destined for landfills, into the InfiGreenTM line of polyol products that are used in production of new polyurethanes such as those used in automotive seats. Worldwide, the Company is first to market with this innovative recycling technology.

Ingenex Digital Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Digital Marketing
Team Leader Mr. Derek Mehraban derek@ingenexdigital.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Operations	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet Services Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Operations
Business Concept: Ingenex is working to become the leading digital agency in the world, providing breakthrough digital products and solutions for the sports, high tech, and green technology industries. Our mobile application will allow sports teams and fans to connect like never before.

Ingenuitas Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Nathan Oostendorp nate@ingenuitas.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Ingenuitas, is a developer of a machine vision appliance and cloud-based data management platform. Today’s manufacturing machine vision systems suffer from multiple barriers to adoption. Companies seeking to use machine vision are limited by the high cost of hardware, integration, and software customization. Ingenuitas will offer a turnkey machine vision solution, bundled with system and data management software, accessible to a price sensitive market segment. This will allow even small manufacturers to improve quality control and reduce the cost of inspection.

INNOVATECK New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Mr. MAHMOUD GASAMA innovateck@gmail.com GRAND BLANC, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing Operations R&D / Design Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Skills Needed: Finance / Accounting Marketing Operations R&D / Design Recruiting / HR
Business Concept: CREATING, DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING NASAL FILTERATION DEVICES OF A WIDE APPLICATION.

Innovative Correction Solutions New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Joseph Beaman icssupport@innovativecorrectionsolutions.com Jackson, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital IT / Internet New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: R&D / Design Strategy	Coach Mr. Mark Anthony Reynolds reynolds@a2growbiz.org Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: Mark's career has been driven by new product develop in consumer, services, and software. His background that mixes sales, sales management and marketing. Mr. Reynolds is particularly skilled as building presentations aimed at investors, board members or buyers.
Business Concept: Innovative Corrections Solutions LLC was formed as a company committed to developing next-generation security electronics and digital programming delivery systems for the corrections industry.

Innovative Plastics and Molding Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing
Team Leader Mr. Robert Joyce rjoyce07@buckeye-express.com Lambertville, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital	Coach Ms. Helen Ewing 1ewingroup@comcast.net Brighton, Michigan The Ewing Group, LLC Title: Business & Personal Coach Brighton, Michigan http://theproblemsolvingcoach Coach Information: With over 20 years of Materials Management experience in both non-automotive & automotive industries, I have an extensive background in business, manufacturing technology and materials. Helping people solve problems in less time, with less money & with less effort is my coaching passion.
Business Concept: BioPolymer product called FibreTuff provides improved thermal and adhesion to molded parts for automotive, furniture, recreation markets....

Inside Michigan Magazine New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries:
Team Leader Mr. Keith White keith@insidemich.com River Rouge, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Skills Needed: Grant Writing Marketing Sales Strategy	Coach Mr. David Landau david.landau3@gmail.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Coach Information: David specializes in marketing, sales and team building and has founded 4 companies in Michigan. His current business is growing at 189% and he has a passion for helping entrepreneurs. Having studied in a condensed program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, David is also an artist and has a Silicon Valley vibe and focuses on scalability, automation and sustainable growth.
Business Concept: A magazine that tells all positive news about Michigan with three major coponents: 1). Michigan is working, 2). Entrepreneurs and 3). Made in Michigan.

Intensify Solar LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Dr. Reed Shick reedshick@gmail.com Midland, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Marketing Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Skills Needed: Executive Management
Business Concept: Produce long life, low cost solar luminescent concentrators.

Inventors Network New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Frank Washington FDWashington@yahoo.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Skills Needed: Executive Management
Business Concept: Combination snake and plunger.

JPH Corporation New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Life Sciences
Team Leader Dr. Jeffrey Hendricks jehendricksmd@gmail.com Kentwood, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Dominic Sorresso surrexi2@comcast.net Bartlett, Illinois AdviCoach-NW, Ltd. Title: President Bartlett, Illinois http://advicoach.com/dsorresso Coach Information: Broad experience in automotive, information technology, insurance, and business process outsourcing segments, Dominic possesses a unique capability of bringing best practices to an enterprise in addition to being responsible for launching new processes, products and distribution channels for various start-up enterprises. He received a Master of Science in Marketing from Rawls School of Business at Texas Tech University while teaching undergraduate marketing.
Business Concept: We have developed a gold chainmail glove fashioned from surgical stainless steel that is designed to be effective in delaying or halting the disease progression in the hands of those suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis. Patent pending status

Juicy Fruits Produce New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries:
Team Leader Mr. Imani Jamal imani_jamal87@hotmail.com Detroit, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	Coach Mr. Stephen Schmitt sschmitt@changefrog.com Plymouth, Michigan Coach Information: I have worked in the financial services arena primarily in the areas of marketing, service delivery, team development and strategy. My MBA and other learning, provides a wide variety of business expertise.
Business Concept: Produce Home Delivery

KEI Kanzen Enterprises International, LLC Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Brian Bodary Jr bbodary.kei@gmail.com Vassar, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Small Portable Plug In AC to DC Power Supply with adapters to power battery operated tools when batteries are discharged or bad.

Kiano Enterprise, Inc New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Alternative Energy
Team Leader Mr. Claude Beauregard claude@kianoinc.com Canton, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Alternative Energy Fund Raising / Venture Capital New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Grant Writing Marketing Strategy	Coach Mr. Richard Miga rlmiga@ssyes.com Livonia, Michigan Coach Information: An Information Processing Architect, Engineering Professional, software/Web/Cloud Designer/Developer, Innovator, Creator, Builder, Project Manager, and General Partner of Synergistic Solutions.Extensive career experience in R&D, telephony, IT/software, manufacturing, automotive aerospace, consumer, military industries. Established/founded 5 startup organizations and a Certified Mentor at TechTown. CV:http://mrmiga.entryhost.com/richard/Richard_L_Miga_Resume.pdf
Business Concept: Toxic free AA and C sized battery that are rechargeable and promote a cleaner environment. No fire hazard, no waste upon disposal has the battery is recycle without the need for special handling. Longer lasting charge.

Lavin Inc. dba Lavin Lift Strap New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Manuel Lavin manuel@lavinlift.com Belleville, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Manufacturing and marketing of medical equipment ie. patient lift accessories

Leadfit Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Ms. Julia Tran julia3142@gmail.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: R&D / Design	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Leadfit is a site that will revolutionize hiring by matching talent to companies based not only on competence, but also fit. Leadfit allows individuals to take assessments of their strengths, management style, ideal work culture, and other key dimensions. The results of these assessments will populate each individual’s profile, which could be anonymous if desired. When a company searches for compatible talent, the company will complete a cultural assessment, and see candidates who not only match skill criteria, but who also have a high probability of fitting with the company’s culture. Leadfit will employ machine learning algorithms to predict compatibility based on past successful matches. Leadfit will become an increasingly accurate matchmaker the more it is used.

Local Orbit Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Ms. Erika Block erika.block@gmail.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Skills Needed: Sales	Coach Mr. Pavan Muzumdar pmuzumdar@gmail.com Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Pieris Capital, LLC Title: Managing Director Michigan Coach Information: 15 years of corporate and operating experience as a CEO, COO, and Senior Consultant. Established a subsidiary in India for technology development and have brought to market a patented business intelligence product entirely developed in India.
Business Concept: Local Orbit is web platform that makes it easy for restaurants, institutions and consumers to buy direct from local farms and food producers. By streamlining purchasing and inventory management, Local Orbit's easy-to-use software makes locally-produced food accessible to a wider range of retail and wholesale buyers. In the process, the company provides local food producers and economies with new revenue opportunities.

LunchBox New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Services
Team Leader Mr. Brett Bergmann brettber@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Traditional food delivery is certainly not a new concept and, combined with takeout, generates $160 Billion in annual sales in the U.S. However, for the 50 million office workers in the U.S., it is often not attractive due to minimum orders, delivery fees and the need to find and sort through long menus. Lunchbox takes a novel group-ordering approach to the office lunch market with a convenient and cost effective solution that is appealing to office workers, their employers, and restaurants.

Makware, Inc; Emerging Company - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (Emerging Company) Team Industries: IT / Internet
Team Leader Mr. Moyeen Khan moyeenkhan@makware.com Commerce Twp, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Executive Management Finance / Accounting Marketing Recruiting / HR Sales	No coach assigned. Coach desired? Yes Industries Needed: IT / Internet Skills Needed: Marketing Sales
Business Concept: Develop mainframe productivity tools to fill the unmet needs of corporations that have mainframes.

Match My Med New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: IT / Internet, Services
Team Leader Mr. Benjamin Charbonneau charbonneaubenjamin@gmail.com Sault ste marie, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Match My Med is going to be an online service business, specializing in filtering and matching a prospective medical student’s personal data; (MCAT score; GPA; Population density preferences; Languages spoken fluently; Climate preferences, etc..) with Match My Med’s vast internal database. This will allow them to quickly index and identify all medical schools for which they meet the basic requirements and matches' them to their personal needs.

Medical Innovation Team New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Healthcare
Team Leader Ms. Anna Ng 4nn4ng@gmail.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? No	No coach assigned. Coach desired? No
Business Concept: Solutions to improve the quality and delivery of sleep medicine.

MEMStim LLC New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea) Team Industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Life Sciences, New Product (industrial or consumer)
Team Leader Mr. Chris Cadotte ccadotte@umich.edu ann arbor, Michigan Additional team members desired? Yes Industries Needed: Fund Raising / Venture Capital Life Sciences New Product (industrial or consumer) Skills Needed: Executive Management Grant Writing Operations	Coach Mr. Richard Miga rlmiga@ssyes.com Livonia, Michigan Coach Information: An Information Processing Architect, Engineering Professional, software/Web/Cloud Designer/Developer, Innovator, Creator, Builder, Project Manager, and General Partner of Synergistic Solutions.Extensive career experience in R&D, telephony, IT/software, manufacturing, automotive aerospace, consumer, military industries. Established/founded 5 startup organizations and a Certified Mentor at TechTown. CV:http://mrmiga.entryhost.com/richard/Richard_L_Miga_Resume.pdf
Business Concept: MEMStim is a semiconductor firm that designs and produces neurostimulation leads capable of providing directed and specific electrical stimulation to nerve fibers. Neurostimulators are used to treat medical conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, deafness, Epilepsy and chronic pain, with emerging treatments for paralysis and blindness. The device consists of an external control unit, a surgically implanted pulse generator, and an electrode lead for delivering the pulses. We expect medical device companies to adopt MEMStim’s patented technology because it eliminates the current manual assembly process, reduces recall risks, and increases the number and specificity of nerves stimulated.

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Menlo Park Software, LLC
New Business Idea - Fall 2011/Winter 2012 (New Business Idea)

Team Industries: IT / Internet