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Article: Symposium gives VC firms a look at Michigan companies.(Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity)
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- Crain's Detroit Business
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- May 11, 2009
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Byline: TOM HENDERSON
For more than three decades, David Brophy, an associate professor of finance at the University of Michigan and director of the school's Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity, has been preaching that the state of Michigan needs to diversify away from its reliance on the auto industry and develop a broad range of new high-tech businesses and industries.
In 1974, he delivered the message at book length in Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, and in 1979 it was the reason he founded the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium.
The 28th symposium will be held Tuesday and Wednesday it wasn't held every year in ...