Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Skip Simms, President And CEO, Ann Arbor SPARK — Ann Arbor, Michigan (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Describe the ideal company that would benefit from your incubation? Skip: It could be a company that’s providing a new diagnostic software that can be used in an alternative energy industry or conserved life sciences industry. It may be a company that’s working on software that

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Skip Simms, President And CEO, Ann Arbor SPARK — Ann Arbor, Michigan (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Skip Simms, president and CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK, a nonprofit business development consortium in Michigan that works in partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), the state’s economic development agency, to help early-stage entrepreneurs and growing companies.