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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Tiffani Bell , co-founder of the Detroit Water Project. Tiffani Bell is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Water Project , a platform that connects donors to people in Detroit and Baltimore in need of assistance paying their water bills. Clay Hebert.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

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. The DXF Institute will offer in-depth full-day and multi-day learning experiences in Detroit. These experiences will focus on innovation and inspiration by using Detroit as a classroom.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. Consumers hurting in Detroit or Biloxi will not continue to spend money they don’t have and income they’re not earning. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

In April of 2014, ESPN released its latest entry in the “30 for 30″ series, telling the story of the Detroit Pistons during their infamous “Bad Boys” era. But there, sandwiched between dynasties and legacies, the Detroit Pistons had built a championship team on the back of Isaiah Thomas.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. Tesla – instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. It will only do one thing well, and you’ll have to move all of your content to use it. Let’s start one.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here?

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

laughter) Kappos: The current fees ($10-$15K) are way below our real cost ($30-$40K). Kappos: Over time we’re going to have to reoptimize to use the new Detroit office. People in Detroit are very excited about this. Some people are asking, ‘can we select Detroit to evaluate us?’ What’s the update?