Michigan can and should compete for venture capital
The Enterprise Forum interviews Skip Simms, administrator for the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund at Ann Arbor SPARK, about the roles that private equity and venture capitalism can play in re-shaping Michigan’s economy.
The Enterprise Forum interviews Skip Simms, administrator for the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund at Ann Arbor SPARK, about the roles that private equity and venture capitalism can play in re-shaping Michigan’s economy.
Excerpt:
What Michigan still needs to do is quantify and qualify the specific clusters of excellence in our state and focus on those, not try and be everything for everybody. We have great educational, research and medical institutions here. But we don’t have a monopoly on all things life science. Let’s identify our strengths and really go after those sectors.
Read the entire interview here.
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