crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

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]. Specialist agencies to help w/ Facebook ads, but not atrocious conversion rates – [link]. Good advice but wrong perspective – [link].

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Here in the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Chicago Entrepreneurism: Four Ingredients To Help Your Business – And This City – Dominate – [link]. Crowd funding offers entrepreneurs a shot at financing their dream – [link]. Half of Detroit’s public schools being shut down? Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Out of necessity. When I released this information into the community my life became in danger. I’ve been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Sean Matula.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2012

On Friday 7/6 I spent the evening in Missoula with a bunch of entrepreneurs. Amy and I were in Missoula for the marathon on Sunday and I decided to do a Meetup talk about Startup Communities. The Meetup was excellent and there’s a great write up on the Start Bozeman blog titled Brad Feld on Building Startup Communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It was always more likely that auto industry commerce prowess would come from LA or Detroit. Co-Working Space.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Our goal when creating MySideKick was to account for every single kind of user in a campus community?—?from For about a year and a half, I worked in downtown Detroit and it was a 10-minute walk to and from my office. MySideKick is geared for universities?—?how how does your program work?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Business School, met with the entrepreneurship center in the Business School , Entrepreneurs ; presented to MPowered the University of Michigan student Entrepreneurship Organization, the Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup and A2Geeks , the regional startup network (talk here.). A Lack of a Startup Culture in the Community.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Google today launched Google for Entrepreneurs both at google.com/entrepreneurs and of course Google+. Mountain View says Google for Entrepreneurs is “the umbrella” for the company’s several dozen programs and partnerships around the world that support startups and entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2018

by Quint Studer, author of “ Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America “ Cities across America have been vying for the privilege of hosting Amazon’s $5 billion second headquarters, which is expected to bring with it up to 50,000 high-paying jobs. Have a dashboard.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I haven’t run a marathon since October 2012 when I ran the Detroit Marathon but after a year of struggling to get into a rhythm I’m once again motivated – and interested – in doing another marathon. Tech entrepreneur I hadn’t seen in a decade describing his new thing. New VC in town in the natural foods market.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. When we see entrepreneurs come up with great ideas (and we see many), we hope that they also remember that while an idea is key, it won’t go anywhere without the right team in place.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

After a week at home I hit the road again around the release of Startup Communities and spent almost all of October on the road, reaching Boise, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Des Moines, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington, and Louisville. I get to work with incredible companies and entrepreneurs every day.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2016

As a retired gamer and not-so-retired entrepreneur, I wanted to relay some lessons I learned playing SimCity that helped me create a successful startup. rex will rip through your most prominent residential community. Playing simulation and strategy games like this while growing up taught me a lot about planning and resource management.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2014

of their businesses generate more than $1 million in revenue.* So how can female entrepreneurs take advantage of the upswing in the economy and take their businesses to the next level? The benefit of helping this group of entrepreneurs will result in increased revenues and job growth in community across the country.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2016

Lots of entrepreneurs have recently moved to Baltimore. For many of the reasons that Baltimore is suggested, Detroit offers a lot to entrepreneurs and startups. With lots of tax credits in Detroit , intended to help attract new citizens and businesses, there are a lot of ways to make a new business more affordable to start here.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2013

Boulder/Denver joins the other six regions – Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle – and is now part of the broad and expanding coverage that Xconomy is providing on business, life sciences, and technology news. This is another effort to that end.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure. I don’t like the title – it’s too intentionally provocative for my tastes because I’m not anti-Silicon Valley but rather pro-building startup communities everywhere – but the book is excellent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Detroit has Technology in Motion (TIM). Instead of organizing workshops by company size as we have in the past, we've created more focused topic tracks that will highlight entrepreneurs in every industry. When Zappos approached Lean Startup Co. South Bend, Indiana went from Rust Belt to Tech Belt with EdTech in the Bend.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2013

Proos Manufacturing recently announced that Amy Proos won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 Award in Michigan & Northwest Ohio. The finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and honored at a black-tie gala on June 20, 2013 at the MGM Grand, Detroit.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- That’s an empowering concept, especially to a young entrepreneur. She’s in Detroit, and I’m in Buffalo: two cities known for being in America’s Rust Belt. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. So you want to be an entrepreneur, huh? So you wanted to be an entrepreneur, huh? Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. 6:06) Resilience and adaptability in people and companies. (8:22)

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2015

Recently, in my book Startup Communities , I asserted that you can create a startup community in any city in the world. ” I keep thinking that I’ll never hear that again, but I just heard it two weeks ago from an entrepreneur I met. The Silicon Valley way is one of them, but not the only one.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2018. #1- The DXF Institute will offer in-depth full-day and multi-day learning experiences in Detroit. 7- Giving back to the community.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Unless that person is … you?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

On Sunday, I finished the Detroit Marathon in 4:41:39. They ran with me in Detroit and it was super helpful to have them. The most exciting thing for me about the Detroit Marathon was that my partner Jason Mendelson completed his first marathon! I had a blast in Detroit from Friday until I left on Tuesday.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

First started in San Francisco, Founder Friday events draw an average of 350 attendees and take place the first Friday of every month, providing the opportunity for female entrepreneurs to interconnect while listening to valuable keynote speeches from local female founders. To date, Women 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

My fourth book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City comes out at the end of the month. George), Vermont (Burlington), and Michigan (Detroit) in October. George, Chicago, Des Moines, Burlington, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington (KY), and Palm Desert.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It is company 500px who has a beautiful product and a burgeoning community on the iPad and web. Thank you also to Detroit Venture Partners. 1:19:15 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law and Detroit Venture Partners. But since he talks about it in the video I’ll spill the beans. 500px is in Toronto.

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