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Making ideas work.

Fostering business development by leveraging CMU's intellectual, technological, and material resources.

At CMU-RC, we partner with people who want to develop their ideas and grow their businesses—from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies. Our clients run the gamut from students and alumni exploring new ideas in food, healthcare, and energy; to entrepreneurs and start-up businesses that need facilities, technology, and business support to put their ideas to work; to major corporations seeking advanced analytics to make sound strategic decisions for their future. If you have an idea, we're here to help you make it work.

From soup to nanotechnology, we make ideas work.

DDBox_PheasantWild Game Soup

It's no surprise that some of our most creative startups are borne in the minds of innovative and enterprising CMU students. Our relationship with CMU's Labelle Entrepreneurship College provides a pathway for student businesses like Wild Game Soup—brainchild of entrepreneurial studies' senior Cason Thorsby. After his business plan won a university award,Thorsby came to us to develop his culinary concepts, and today we're providing the facilities, resources, and flexibility he needs to get his ideas to market.

Bardic Wells Meadery LogoBardic Wells

Ever quaffed a glass of mead? If not, you’re missing out on an ancient European tradition and one of Michigan’s most promising new food products. Brainchild of Steve Haystead, a Michigan beekeeper known for his honey and bee’s wax, mead is a hearty, honey-based libation and the ancestor of all fermented drinks. Haystead’s new venture, Bardic Wells Meadery, is Michigan’s first meadery—producing almost a dozen varieties of therapeutic mead from raw, unfiltered honey from Haystead’s organically managed hives. It’s tasty. It’s healthy. And it offers a honey of a chance for Haystead to expand from beekeeper to brew master. Already on select shelves in places like Whole Foods, Haystead owes his early success to a fabulous brew of high quality ingredients crafted with patience. And while Haystead works his craft, we’re working ours—designing a business plan, exploring financing, investigating buy vs. lease options, vetting potential partners, and helping with marketing and advertising. That kind of responsive and targeted support is helping Bardic Wells move from a basement brewery into a 10,000sf state-of-the-art mead-making facility—all in less than six months.

Michelle's Miracle

MichelleMichelle's Miracle, Inc. specializes in nutraceutical products using cherries, America’s “Super Fruit”. Cherries contain powerful antioxidants which provide the distinctive red color of the fruit and may hold the key to many of its health-promoting qualities.
Michelle’s Miracle has developed a product line that utilizes one of America’s Super-Fruits, that encompasses a variety of health benefits, and offers quality tart cherry nutraceuticals for consumers. Instead of sourcing exotic berries from halfway around the world, Americans can find powerful nutrient rich cherries grown in Michigan.

Stable Grazer

Are you tired of feeding your horses numerous times a day? The Stable Grazer, developed by Dan and Ed Fehringer, is an automatic horse feeder that allows horse owners the luxury of loading a feeder once a day with flake hay, grain or pellets. The feeder has a convenient timer that drops the horse feed up to six times a day preventing common health problems among horses such as cribbing and sand indigestion. The Stable Grazer can save time and money for individual horse owners or full service ranch owners. If you’re looking to make your horse live a more comfortable and healthy life while saving some time, then Stable Grazer is for you.

Selestial Soap BottleSelestial Soap

It Shouldn’t Cost More to Live Green…is the guiding force behind Selestial Soap. Developed as a safe and effective product for consumers looking for laundry alternatives that are truly green, Selestial Soap is a natural laundry detergent formulated from all natural ingredients. With years of experience in the cleaning and laundry business behind them, Ruth Smith and Jim Legato developed Selestial Soap because they wanted to use environmentally friendly products that really worked, but didn’t believe those products should cost extra.

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