Ann Arbor - Ideamine goes prospecting for growth in Ann Arbor

Concentrate, 10/15/2009

Ideamine is digging for funding, and jobs, in Ann Arbor these days.

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Have a great idea... or two... or too many to remember... and where did you put the scrap of paper you wrote it down on? That is much less of a problem with Ideamine.

The downtown Ann Arbor-based firm creates software that serves as an electronic personal assistant, organizing and prioritizing information ranging from emails to thoughts typed on a word processor. The 6-month-old company is getting its start at Ann Arbor SPARK's Central Incubator and plans to begin hitting the market with its product next year.

This isn't the first start-up for Ideamine founder Eric Hass, but it's the first one he is quarterbacking on his own. Hass is bootstrapping the idea with his own money for now, but is open to some outside investment in the near future. He wants to stay in Ann Arbor or the Midwest, but admits that it's "tough to shake money out of the Midwest."

"We'll go where the money takes us," Hass says.

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Entrepreneurship , Software Design , Venture Capital

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