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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

To help foster this innovation, many colleges and universities have opened business incubators, helping students and others in their community to help make their innovative dreams a reality. Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

Techstars Mobility (Detroit). These programs don’t run in isolation – rather they are part of a horizontal scaling strategy based on a premise that you can build startups, and a startup community, anywhere in the world. In addition, embedded in the Techstars growth model is a horizontal scaling strategy.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

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. Given that of all existing U.S.

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When You Need To Know – Use A Keylogger

YoungUpstarts

But there is a downside to the global community that instant communication has brought about. A young startup company out of Detroit, Michigan, created a resolution to the problem of wayward employees and curious children. Finding a Solution. There is a solution to your problems.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. When I released this information into the community my life became in danger. The company has also grown from one Atlanta-based office to four offices in Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, and Detroit.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. 8:22) On how crisis reveals character. (9:11)

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Damaged Pure Michigan Brand Impedes Economic Development

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Outside of Detroit and a few other urban pockets in the state, it is hard to go anywhere that isn’t scenic. This is the message that is being sent to the global marketplace right now. communities like Flint.” And water, we’re surrounded by it, and most of it is about as clean and pure as you’d hope for.