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16:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for their support of the show. 1:07:00 Thank you to our sponsors, Detroit Venture Partners and Walker Corporate Law, and also thank you to Nate Redmond of Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. 12:00 It seems like there’s a shift in the VC world to more ex-entrepreneurs.
As many of you know, my partner Jason is from Detroit. He’s going back home for a special event and I encourage anyone near Detroit to go hang with him. Jason is returning to Detroit to sprinkle some of the wisdom he has learned along the way with the Detroitpreur startup community at Bamboo Detroit on April 5th from 6-8 pm.
With nearly 300 companies working under its roof, participants in the Tech Town program contribute to the growth and livelihood of Detroit and the Wayne State University community. Even established corporations can’t resist the attraction of Tech Town: the Henry Ford Health System relocated its genetics labs to Tech Town’s research space.
The Detroit auto maker is looking for software developers, project managers, database experts, business analyts and other IT workers to staff its new center. Car giant General Motors announced today plans to hire 500 people for a new Information Technology Innovation Center in Austin.
Well if you’re in Detroit you’re 100x more likely to get somebody who grew up in Flint coming by twice per year for ordinary reasons unrelated to work. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. Local press matters.
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.
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. Today, HelpKitchen is live in two cities (San Francisco and Detroit) and in discussions with several others about expansion.
Fast-forward a few years, and MyLocker.net now sells customized gear all over the nation out of our Detroit headquarters. MyLocker.net contracted local Detroit graffiti artist, Antonio “Shades” Agee , to paint custom murals for our headquarters’ walls. Interdepartmental communication. Bring creativity into the office.
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.
Alampi is the founder of Alampi & Associates, a Detroit-based executive advisory firm whose clients include several Fortune 500 companies. Jim Alampi has spent 30 years helping companies overcome barriers to business growth. Jim is the author of Great to Excellent; It’s the Execution!
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. I run over and…I panicked.”.
Detroit show sucked – [link]. Groupon is Hastening the Demise of the Newspaper Industry – [link]. 10 photographs of children from around the world and their bedrooms – [link]. Puzzled about Dish Network’s purchase of Bluckbuster bankruptcy assets – [link]. Not a good start to the Charlie Sheen tour.
If Detroit car makers can collaborate on research, why couldn’t U.S. According to Lee, the Avalanche Project was started because the founders kept asking themselves the following questions: “Why were they writing such big checks to their software companies, but getting so little in return? technology users?”
Half of Detroit’s public schools being shut down? Good points by @dhh about the end of the IT department – [link]. The iPad smackdown — 80 to 100 new tablets are coming from competitors – [link]. – [link]. BlockBuster puts itself up for sale – [link].
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.
There was a computer training lab run by a company called Prosoft, but that's like having an Apex Tech and expecting to be the next Detroit. Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. So why didn't it work?
They run a firm based in Detroit called Ludlow Ventures and do deals on a national level. They have insights others don’t, they are getting into early-stage deals across the country that have become big but they backed the companies before others. And they have started cranking out super interesting videos.
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. LinkedIn – how about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.
Age-screening tool comes to the rescue Digg sells to Betaworks for the fire sale price of… $500K Dev Patent Office puts first satellite office in renowned tech hub … Detroit How Dropbox continues to win: Pre-loads on devices like the Samsung Galaxy S3 Cloud 5 billion miles of data tells Progressive how likely you are to crash Greystripe (..)
But by 1901, Ransom Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and in the next decade was quickly followed by other innovators who opened large scale manufacturing plants in Detroit – Henry Packard, Henry Leland’s Cadillac, and Henry Ford with the Model A.
Amy Kaherl is the Director/Facilitator of Detroit Soup. I found it last night on NBC Nightly News, an inspirational story about Detroit Soup. . Here’s the concept: Detroit Soup is a monthly dinner to fund creative and entrepreneurial projects. As a Michigander I’m always looking for some good vibes on the economy.
If Detroit car makers can collaborate on research, why couldn’t U.S. According to Lee, the Avalanche Project was started because the founders kept asking themselves the following questions: “Why were they writing such big checks to their software companies, but getting so little in return? technology users?”
I flew into the Delta McNamara terminal in Detroit with its ExpressTram which uses air cushion levitation like a hovercraft. I was surrounded by high-tech. The terminal is connected by a passenger tunnel which celebrates LED art. I stayed at.
27:45 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for their support of the show! And thank you to Detroit Venture Partners and to Walker Corporate Law. 21:30 Why did Advance Publications buy Reddit? 24:15 Are there similarities between Twitter and Reddit? 25:00 How should entrepreneurs approach you for funding? 50:30 Is Pinterest real?
33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. 1:13:30 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law and Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. .” 31:45 Is there truth to the idea that you shouldn’t force change upon entrepreneurs? Everyone give them a big thanks @dvptweets.
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?’ We’re making some really good progress on upgrading patents. We’ll try to bring in automotive experts.
However, cities like Detroit, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Laredo, or Lincoln saw a rise in the rental price. In the United States, the apartment rental market is running strongly and seeing a rise in rent prices. In the most expensive cities such as New York and San Francisco, the rent prices are dropping.
In an effort to buy real estate in burgeoning startup communities around the United States while more deeply engaging in the startup community, my partners and I have bought a house in the Cass Corridor neighborhood in Detroit. Jason Mendelson grew up in Detroit so this is a nice homecoming for him.
Techstars Mobility (Detroit). In addition, embedded in the Techstars growth model is a horizontal scaling strategy. If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC).
You meet interesting people backstage at conferences and in 2013 that included Jonathon Triest who started Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures. HW: Sooooo Detroit VC scene. We moved our offices to Downtown Detroit nearly three years ago and the transformation has been spectacular. That’s not something I’ve seen outside of Detroit.
If so, you may want to check out the Detroit Windsor Tunnel and my StartupNation interview with Carolyn Brown, the DWT Executive Vice President, at [link] You see, The Detroit Windsor Tunnel is one of the great, engineering marvels of the world and is the only “vehicular international subaqueous [.].
Two days in Detroit this week for Plex’s annual user conference yielded me over 200 photos and 50 conversations. I tend to take a lot of photos and talk a lot when I am invigorated by products, places or people.
on the innovation blog Time Lapse Sequences from the ISS The Social Oscars Lab Created Eco Foods Mahindra Reva E20 Geeks at the Oscars The Pesky Password problem Female engineers make the mark in Detroit Tech event backstage passes.
on the innovation blog Adobe Marketing Cloud The answer is blowing in the wind Consumer Reports Top Products at CES Disney’s MyMagic+ Dynamic pricing comes to retail The UAE as technology/innovation hub The Detroit Auto Show: the buzz is back.
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. Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York.
I was a veteran in the outdoor advertising industry in chicago and decided to move back to my roots in Detroit and support/build the local economy in the city that made me. Thanks to David Pressler, Safe dooms ! #11- 11- The city needed my expertise. Photo Credit: Candice Simons.
Digital Undivided does this by offering workshops and resources in cities with predominantly black populations: Philadelphia, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Oakland and the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. According to Finney, black women need to be given the same resources and networks their white male counterparts enjoy.
For about a year and a half, I worked in downtown Detroit and it was a 10-minute walk to and from my office. Street harassment has real, physical and psychological effects on people. My own experience with street harassment is what inspired part of the mapping feature on MySideKick called Safety Pin.
Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. The movement has spread across the country and across the globe, spawning innovative products such as the MakerBot Digitizer and all the things you can download from Thingiverse.com.
Two days in Detroit this week for Plex’s annual user conference yielded me over 200 photos and 50 conversations. I tend to take a lot of photos and talk a lot when I am invigorated by products, places or people.
I spent a few days at Plex’s user conference in Detroit this week. For me, the backdrop was the invigorated city as I describe here. That amplified the many upbeat conversations and presentations I witnessed at the event. Jason Blessing,
Bet Ann Arbor and the Detroit Metro area have a few startups in that space. (If the old money doesn’t get the new mobile/web app space, note that new money is pouring into Cleantech/energy VC funds in the Valley. Silver Lake Kraftwerk’s Fund just raised $1.3 billion for a Cleantech/Energy growth fund. Where are the investors?).
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