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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. 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.

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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. Social Enterprise UK .

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. iOS – a brand new operating system that doesn’t run a single one of the millions of applications that have been developed for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes. Craigslist – it will be ugly.

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How to Expand Your Cannabis Business Across State Lines

Up and Running

Despite regulatory complications and federal illegality, becoming a multi-state operator, or MSO, is still one of the most valuable things you can do for your company in the cannabis industry. Identify industry operators that do things well and reach out. Roll your sleeves up and find other good people who are actual operators. .

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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

One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. At the time it was called the green movement. They're our shareholders, they're our employees, they're our hosts, they're our guests, and they're also the communities we operate in. You can't really operate. 500,000 to Detroit. And of course, this is 2000.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

To provide an inside perspective on what it takes to run and maintain a successful B&B, I interviewed Kathleen Karamanos, owner and operator of Fundy Heights Bed and Breakfast in Saint John, New Brunswick, on Canada’s scenic East Coast. Without the green light from the zoning commission, you will not be able to move forward.

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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 see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. And so we get to piggyback off of their 501-C3 status and they manage the actual financial operations. Sydney Gressel : Yeah.