Tagged: michigan municipal league

Advocates Push for Local Stock Exchange in Michigan

March 6, 2014 @ 3:45 pm By JD Alois |

Michigan Municipal League, Representative Nancy Jenkins Push for Local Stock Exchanges. A bill pending in the state House of Michigan to create local stock exchanges to support small businesses would be the first of its kind in not only Michigan, but in the nation. The… Read More

Read more in: General News, Politics, Legal & Regulation | Tagged dan gilmartin, governor rick snyder, michigan, michigan municipal league, nancy jenkins

A Michigan Perspective: Crowdfunding is Essential to Growing Business, Communities

December 4, 2013 @ 11:19 am By Dan Gilmartin, Dr. Elisabeth Gerber & Chris Miller |

What would happen if we could invest in businesses in our own communities? What would happen if that entrepreneur you know could raise the capital needed to start a business from friends and neighbors and investors who are intimately familiar with the project? Michigan citizens… Read More

Read more in: Featured Headlines, Opinion | Tagged access to capital, accredited investors, chris miller, dan gilmartin, intrastate, jobs act, michigan, michigan municipal league, non-accredited investors, representative nancy jenkins, sec, small business, startups, university of michigan