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Jonathon Triest of Ludlow Ventures: “VC Done Right” (and in Detroit)

Hunter Walker

You meet interesting people backstage at conferences and in 2013 that included Jonathon Triest who started Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures. I could have gotten a nastygram, but instead got hired… client numero uno was in the books. HW: Sooooo Detroit VC scene. That’s not something I’ve seen outside of Detroit.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based We’ll give it back to you with nice fonts.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

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.

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How to Expand Your Cannabis Business Across State Lines

Up and Running

For the first time ever, you’ll order up an 1/8th of Gelato by Cookies, in Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, or even Detroit, and it’ll actually be the very same fire you fell in love with back in Cali. . The mentality of getting in and cashing out on the “green rush” is somewhat of a blinding force within the cannabis industry today.

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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

And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. We went through hundreds of thousands of resumes to hire those 1,900 people and we do so much to bring them in and to have to say goodbye to them, I'd say that was the hardest part. At the time it was called the green movement. 500,000 to Detroit. So 20 years ago.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

A successful bed and breakfast owner will need to know how to plan for cash flow, hire and manage staff, strategize to maintain maximum occupancy rates, and negotiate with contractors and suppliers, to name but a few of the business-related tasks that will be required. How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta.