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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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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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Principles For Low-Budget Marketing Strategies Every Startup Should Know

YoungUpstarts

The Chrysler’s ATL (Above the Line), “Eminem commercial” — that cost around 12 million $— is a perfect example of a well-focused, mass marketing campaign. It honors the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit, cradle of many worldwide talents, including the multi platinum rapper and the multinational car brand.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

There may have been a time when opening a B&B in the greater Detroit area may have been successful; however, given the economic hardships that area has been facing in the last 10-15 years, it hardly seems like a solid business venture now. Always factor in maintenance costs, both preventative, and emergency.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

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. The danger here is that you ruin your reputation. Afterthat theres not much.

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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

Eric Ries : An indelible part of your reputation and this is laying the foundation for whatever the future of this company is going to be. That meant of course initially raising money and cutting costs. We have to manage our stakeholders, raise money, diversify our business, and cut costs." 500,000 to Detroit.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.