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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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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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

In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". 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. It's in the Financial District--right at 55 Broad Street. It says so right on their website.

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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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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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2011

At first it was a craft business, then it was driven by relentless technology innovation and then a price war as economies of scale drove efficiencies in production. The Detroit area quickly became the place to be if you were making cars, parts for cars, or were a skilled machinist. The Crazy Entrepreneur. Market Saturation.

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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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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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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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 30, 2021

However, cities like Detroit, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Laredo, or Lincoln saw a rise in the rental price. Increasing digital services, technology and cloud-based software have led landlords and property management companies to take the advantage of evolving tech trends. Going Digital for Better ROI.

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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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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. My friend Christina York, who is the founder of the technology start up Spellbound, made the introduction and I am forever grateful. Street harassment has real, physical and psychological effects on people.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Students ; presented to entrepreneurship classes teaching technology-driven Scalable startups as well as students interested in Social Entrepreneurship. And that lack of tolerance for failure and comfort with the status quo gets fed back to the entrepreneurs. Bet Ann Arbor and the Detroit Metro area have a few startups in that space.

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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. He founded eBay to empower individuals through the use of new technology, and has created livelihoods for millions of individuals throughout the world.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

First started in San Francisco, Founder Friday events draw an average of 350 attendees and take place the first Friday of every month, providing the opportunity for female entrepreneurs to interconnect while listening to valuable keynote speeches from local female founders. To date, Women 2.0

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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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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. 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.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2012

From the realistic and pragmatic to the hypothetical, members of the YEC have technology on the brain in 2012 — to improve their lives, make the office a little brighter and update “business as usual” while they’re at it. It’s a tiny, sleek speaker with high-impact sound. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

And just having cool technology doesn’t make a successful business. What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The best entrepreneurs and innovators draw inspiration from everyday life – and then they exhibit their forward-thinking results at the following conferences and expos. Here, you’ll find products and technologies that are at the cutting edge of their industries before they hit the market. Innovation rarely exists without inspiration.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2018

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. Dishan Jayasinha is a Sri Lankan-born American, MD turned entrepreneur, creative mastermind and humanitarian.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern.) Not just a problem in terms of access to technology. (It’s Wayne Sutton. Their first product aims to make meetings more productive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Detroit has Technology in Motion (TIM). Instead of organizing workshops by company size as we have in the past, we've created more focused topic tracks that will highlight entrepreneurs in every industry. When Zappos approached Lean Startup Co. South Bend, Indiana went from Rust Belt to Tech Belt with EdTech in the Bend.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2017

I saw a tweet from Dan Primack saying the North Hall was basically indistinguishable from the Detroit Auto Show. While 90% of them will fail, it’s pretty awesome to see what entrepreneurs are working on. We started at the LVCC. It felt like six months ago every CEO of a major auto company sent an email to the CMO that said.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2013

Proos Manufacturing recently announced that Amy Proos won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 Award in Michigan & Northwest Ohio. The finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and honored at a black-tie gala on June 20, 2013 at the MGM Grand, Detroit.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- That’s an empowering concept, especially to a young entrepreneur. She’s in Detroit, and I’m in Buffalo: two cities known for being in America’s Rust Belt. 1- Suggestive and evocative name. Photo Credit: Rob Sheppard.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

If Stockholm is Europe’s Silicon Valley, Gothenburg is Sweden’s Detroit. The number of road traffic fatalities has not improved in a long time, but self-driving technology has the very real potential to make traffic much safer. Scare the OEMs into going electric. Einride is currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Diesel engines.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 7, 2017

I spent the next seven years in the tech ecosystems of San Francisco, New York City, and even back in hometown Detroit, taking on various operating and investing roles. And yes, I would be on the hook for breaking the lease! But as is usually the case, things worked out. It’s a very competitive market for VCs. I imagine SF must be worse.)

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

View More in Detroit ›. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Detroit Events ›. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Not sure about the mentoring, though.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot. I’m long on payment technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

The funnest theme we discussed was John’s belief that the technology changes that are sweeping through society today are as important, dramatic and pervasive as those that swept across the world in the 1800′s during the industrial revolution. 12:45 Describe the structural, cyclical trends you’re seeing in technology.

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