Community Conversion Detroit 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Today I’d like to talk about what startup communities outside of Silicon Valley look like, how they emerge and what makes them take hold. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 20, 2020
Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. We’re hopeful that by sharing our story, others in the tech and philanthropic world can get some ideas for ways they can use lean principles to help their communities through this trying time.
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crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 7, 2011
CPC & conversion rates are abysmal. Specialist agencies to help w/ Facebook ads, but not atrocious conversion rates – [link]. You need to be HUMAN, not amateur, when building communities. Well thought out points on building a web design community – [link]. Detroit show sucked – [link].
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 19, 2018
We’ll do this through a variety of ways like introducing new products and features to our website, and focusing on a variety of marketing strategies to grow and engage our community. This year we will hit our 100,000th person on experiential tours of Detroit and launch a new program that shares lessons learned with other leaders.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 16, 2014
I’m fascinated with Detroit. When I was there in October 2012 with my partners Ryan and Jason to run the Detroit Marathon we talked about the idea of getting more involved there in some way. Jason grew up in Detroit and has lots of stories there. The local Detroit startup community engaged very powerfully in the idea.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Our goal when creating MySideKick was to account for every single kind of user in a campus community?—?from With the help of students at Duke University, we created an in-person, peer-led prevention training program that has been rolled out with students in Greek life at Duke over the past three years called Starting the Conversation.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Who knows exactly how these factors combine to booststartups in Silicon Valley and squish them in Detroit, but itsclear they do from the number of startups per capita in each. VCsnever quite say yes or no; they just engage you in an apparentlyendless conversation.
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