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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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. Social enterprise: Building a better future.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

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.”.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. ” “Our intent is to roll up our sleeves and help entrepreneurs take their early-stage prototypes to scalable products,” said Rahul Sood, the general manager of the Bing Fund, in an interview with VentureBeat yesterday. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

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?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

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.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

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. — entrepreneurship entrepreneurs intellect quora social networks startups technology' They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

I want to fail because I backed an extraordinary entrepreneur with a super-ambitious project and we were just wrong about market timing, customer adoption, competition, regulation or similar. They run a firm based in Detroit called Ludlow Ventures and do deals on a national level. But if I fail, I want to fail for the right reasons.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Out of necessity. I’ve been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. The company has also grown from one Atlanta-based office to four offices in Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, and Detroit. Photo Credit: Sean Matula.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. Makers are becoming real entrepreneurs, rather than just hobbyists and inventors.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2011

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. The Crazy Entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

4:45 How do young entrepreneurs begin to work with a company like yours? 25:00 How should entrepreneurs approach you for funding? 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. 8:15 How do you feel about your properties?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Which is why I often tell people to start being entrepreneurs when one is young. ” 31:45 Is there truth to the idea that you shouldn’t force change upon entrepreneurs? 33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. I talk about it often including in my own personal narrative.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Great technology can transform a business and streamline the daily grind of an entrepreneur.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 30, 2021

However, cities like Detroit, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Laredo, or Lincoln saw a rise in the rental price. And, this is really good news for entrepreneurs who want to invest in the rental market. In the United States, the apartment rental market is running strongly and seeing a rise in rent prices.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

You meet interesting people backstage at conferences and in 2013 that included Jonathon Triest who started Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures. 2) Warm intro’s from entrepreneurs we’ve previously funded. HW: Sooooo Detroit VC scene. That’s not something I’ve seen outside of Detroit. I was smitten. No turning back.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

For about a year and a half, I worked in downtown Detroit and it was a 10-minute walk to and from my office. Ann Arbor as a whole is a very forward thinking, supportive, entrepreneur-friendly community for startups and tech companies. Street harassment has real, physical and psychological effects on people.

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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.). Held office hours and met lots of passionate students with great ideas.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel and friends will also agree to mentor these young entrepreneurs. Maybe off-shoring could become more on-shoring and helping drum up employment in places like Detroit. At least not as an entrepreneur. Here is their inaugural class. So is this a good idea? My 2 cents: 1. This is a worthy goal and I applaud Peter Thiel.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I often think of all the times I was encouraged to conform when I come across entrepreneurs who are told that their ideas won’t work. Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. And learn from each other.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. As entrepreneurs we need to recognize the importance of having a solid support system. be the manager and product developer).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

It was always more likely that auto industry commerce prowess would come from LA or Detroit. As you have more exits in your startup community and more second-time entrepreneurs the growth of a local startup community becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2021

He was investing in Detroit and eager to write a book about the art and science of venture capital. I immediately introduced Mahendra to a bunch of Foundry Group LPs, partners, and entrepreneurs. A decade ago, I got a cold email from Mahendra. He made progress quickly, and I fondly remember the first edition with the green cover.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2012

On Friday 7/6 I spent the evening in Missoula with a bunch of entrepreneurs. Elke and Rob are exactly the kind of people I mean when I talk about the need for entrepreneurs to be the leaders of the startup communities. George (UT), Burlington (VT), and Detroit. I’ve got three coming up in October – St.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In his last year in law school, the high point for Michael was arguing his first pro bono case in Detroit for a tenant who he claimed was being illegally evicted. (In For entrepreneurs, understanding why people dedicate their lives to working for non-profits is hard to fathom. Remove the Tag. I just didn’t understand why he did it.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2019

Applications are now open to become a Global Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Economic Growth Institution (EGI). Interested applicants can learn more about the program , fill out an application form , and reach out to Millie Chu at Global Detroit.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

For entrepreneurs in and around the tech industry, conferences are an excellent way to get up to speed on the latest developments, find great new services, and get a read on potential clients and customers — plus, you never know who else you’ll meet. Techweek is in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Detroit this year.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2014

My partners were all shaken also – Seth lived in Boston for many years, Ryan has done several marathons, and Jason just did his first marathon last year in Detroit. I collected myself and called in to my Hangout. A few days later Brent Hill tweeted that he was going to run Boston in 2014 as a show of strength and did anyone want to join him.

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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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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. Unfortunately, many real cities don’t work this way (look at the problems Detroit and Los Angeles face), and companies sometimes spend more time fighting than collaborating.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2012

I got my first glimpse of the Jambox when Shahar Nechmad, the founder of Stagedom, pulled one out of his bag during #AnotherDetroit event in Detroit. It’s a tiny, sleek speaker with high-impact sound.

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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.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Ann Arbor, Columbus, Detroit, and Minneapolis have continued their rich vein of form, spitting out Midwest startups and raising venture capital at insane rates. The region’s entrepreneurs have emerged in a culture that prizes fiscal prudence and capital allocation discipline. Across the Midwest, regional champions have risen.

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