Mobile Monday Detroit Smile! It's Monday!

This is the Detroit Chapter of Mobile Monday, an international organization that works with local, regional, national and global mobile industry visionaries and developers fostering cooperation and cross-company business development through virtual and live networking events. Find out more...

To Become a Member

Membership is free and easy. Just go to the Mobile Monday Detroit Meetup.com site, register, and RSVP for the events you would like to attend.

Upcoming Meetings

Resources

Listing the wealth of local resources for mobile companies in the area, including financial, advisory, recruitment, educational, etc.

 

Mobile Monday Michigan Job Board

Whether you are seeking employment or seeking employees in the mobile space, this job board should help you connect with the right people. The job board is syndicated across our sister site in Detroit (http://mobilemondaydetroit.org), as well as several other national job boards (Google Base, Indeed, Oodle, Vast, Juju, OLX, and many more). It even gets posted to the MoMoA2 Twitter account. You will see the job board in the left-hand column, and can click on the links to see more jobs or to post a job. Here are the links again:

  

Other Job Boards

Be sure to check out these other useful job boards for posting and searching:

  

Michigan-based Resources

  • Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) is a trade association for the mobile industry, including: carriers, manufacturers, hardware developers, software developers, mobile marketing vendors, advertisers and users of the technology. MTAM will work with local, regional, national and global mobile industry members to facilitate our mission of growing the mobile industry within the State of Michigan, thereby generating increased entrepreneurial opportunities in the mobile space and creating sustainable jobs. Our primary function: to foster cooperation between the various factions of the mobile industry and its professional associations globally, the State of Michigan and its various entities, the investment community, the education community, and technology users to facilitate the in-state growth of the industry.
  • Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)  offers one-stop business assistance. Our business development managers work with consultants, utilities, associations and local economic development agencies to best match businesses' needs with Michigan's opportunities. From attractive financing through our $2 billion 21st Century Jobs Fund to significant and long-term tax abatements, few places can offer a more attractive financial package. The MEDC is also the channel for continuous improvement of the state's business climate.

  

Investment Groups Focused on Mobile

Michigan Based:

  • Resonant Venture Partners - ResonantVC.com - Resonant Venture Partners is an emerging venture capital firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that makes seed stage investments in regional firms across a variety of technology sectors.
  • Sargon Partners - SargonPartners.com - Sargon Partners Inc. is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital firm that specializes in business development of start-up and entrepreneur businesses, including mobile application software. 

 

Other sources:

  • Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund - kpcb.com/initiatives/ifund/ - KPCB’s iFund™ is a $200M investment initiative that is funding market-changing ideas and products that build upon the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The iFund™ is agnostic to size and stage of investment and invests in companies building applications, services and components. Focus areas include location based services, social networking, mCommerce (including advertising and payments), communication, health care, education, and entertainment. The iFund™ backs innovators pursuing transformative, high-impact ideas with an eye towards building independent durable companies atop the iPhone OS platform.

 

University of Michigan Mobile Activity

The University of Michigan has a lot of mobile activity. Here is what we've heard about so far:

  • U-M Mobile Center - A collection of resources related to mobile apps under development at the University.

 

Mobile Development Firms/Contractors

Thinking about building a mobile app? Take a look at interesting graphic from Vision Mobile that shows the mobile development path from concept to submission, and then check out our list of Michigan-based companies who can assist you.

 

Mobile Industry Blogs / Informational Resources

Announcements

Our sponsor, the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) is now accepting memberships.

  MTAM is a trade association for Michigan's mobile technology industry, and is seeking members from among the various segments involved with mobile including:  carriers, manufacturers, hardware developers, software developers, wireless system installers, tower manufacturers/installers, mobile marketing vendors, advertisers/mobile publishers, users of the technology, and those interested in learning more about it.

 

MTAM will work with local, regional, national and global organizations and firms to facilitate the mission of growing the mobile industry within the State of Michigan, thereby generating increased entrepreneurial and enterprise-level opportunities in the mobile space and creating sustainable jobs.

 

Learn how MTAM can benefit you and your organization at http://GoMobileMichigan.org

  

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