If you seek a pleasant investment environment ... Michigan starts to show up on national investors' radar screens.(Focus)

Crain's Detroit Business,  May, 2006  by Henderson, Tom

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Byline: Tom Henderson So far, it's just a trickle, but national venture-capital firms are starting to discover Michigan. "I look at Michigan as one of the relatively small handful of regions that deserves more attention than the venture-capital world gives it,'' said Jim Matheson, general partner in Cambridge, Mass.-based Flagship Ventures.

"The University of Michigan has a top-10 medical school, a top-10 engineering school and a top-10 business school. The state has a strong industrial base working to make a transition. And you also have a generation of successful ...

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