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Dec. 28 meeting: Building a Team to Grow With

Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021 Gerri Jensen is a Certified Mentor with SCORE Ann Arbor Area. Her business background includes being the founder and president of a national nonprofit organization with offices in New York, Sacramento, Toledo, and Chicago. She built volunteer teams that operated 400 local chapters in 48 states. She frequently appeared on national […]

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September meeting: Best Strategies to Bring Your Product to Market

The Sept. 28th meeting of the Jackson Inventors Network features seasoned entrepreneur and inventor Joe Finkler The meeting starts with registration at 6 p.m., with the program following from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Networking takes place from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Finkler got his start as the co-owner of the “As Seen on TV” stores in Muskegon and Grand […]

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September meeting: Kickstarter: Pass or Fail?

Meeting: Sept. 22 Online zoom meeting begins at 6:30 p.m,. Be a part of the process as we look at select videos from Kickstarter and Indiegogo to see if they were a winning campaign or not, then discuss and see if we can learn from what they did right or wrong. According to Kickstarter, a […]

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March 28 JIN meeting: Prototyping

The Jackson Inventors Network (JIN) returns to the Jackson District Library, Carnegie Branch, with one of our most popular topics and popular past speakers. “Mock ups and Prototypes” presentation from product designer and inventor Todd Kauranen, Core Team Industrial Designer, DISHER, and his colleague, Chad Barnes. Why build a Mock-Up? A mock-up is a scale or full-size […]

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Feb. 28 meeting: Essential Library Resources for Inventors and Entrepreneurs

The first thing any inventor or entrepreneur does before investing time and money into their idea is to research into what is already on the market. This session, “Essential Library Resources for Inventors and Entrepreneurs”, is the first official walk-through in our 2017 speaker series on the process of inventing. Laura Brown is a Business […]

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November meeting topic: Invention for “foodies”

This month, JIN welcomes Matt Stoner and Jeff Weed to share their entrepreneurial story and their journey. Stoner and Weed are not your typical inventors, and neither had prior experience in food creation. Nevertheless, over the past year, they have collaboratively developed and launched a tasty new paradigm in the frozen-dessert category: “Goodphoria.” What led them […]

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“Entrepreneur” magazine editor to speak at Spring Arbor

Spring Arbor University is hosting the editor of “Entrepreneur” magazine, Amy Cosper on Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m., at the Ralph Carey Forum, on the main Spring Arbor University campus. This is a unique opportunity to hear one of the most prominent voices in the world on the topic of entrepreneurship. She was named one of Fast […]

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July JIN meeting: Legal Insights for Start-Up Businesses

The Jackson Inventors’ Network will feature local legal expert James B. (“Jim”) Fleming as the special guest speaker for July’s monthly meeting, July 28. Fleming brings a wealth of experience and knowledge relevant to inventors and entrepreneurs. Should I incorporate? LLC or S-Corp? How dangerous is it to use on-line legal forms? What do I need […]

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June JIN meeting: It’s All About Direction Management

The Jackson Inventors Network (JIN) will feature Arthur R. Di Blassio, CEO, Emerging Enterprises, at its June 23 meeting, with challenging questions to leaders of any key effort: Who are we? Where are we Going? How do we get there? Every organization has a “direction”, but very few have a concise description of it, that easily […]

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April JIN meeting: Intellectual Property & the Inventor

This month, the Jackson Inventors Network will feature Ray Meiers, registered U.S. Patent Attorney with the Jackson-based firm Endurance Law Group PLC, at its April 28 meeting at Jackson Makerspace. Meiers’ one-hour presentation on the subject of intellectual property (IP), covering the four main categories of IP: copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents. Attendees will receive […]

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