Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

Grand Rapids is also home to StartGarden, a startup accelerator with the goal of turning Michigan into a flourishing business ecosystem. Small Business Development Center Michigan. Government Requirements. StartGarden. Michipreneur: 5 Small Business Resources in Grand Rapids. See Also: Starting a Business Guide. Charlotte, NC.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2019

After a decade, it’s clear that our federal government has broadly failed us on this front. Today, I’m happy to welcome the University of Michigan to the Global EIR network. Applications are now open to become a Global Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Economic Growth Institution (EGI).

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I’m sick of having a dysfunctional government. I think this crazy partial government shutdown is probably going to happen, and to me this signals a new low. I think both sides share the blame in this, and, it will require both sides to return to a productive government. Mostly our government stays quite busy arguing.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2022

NSN Lookup was a high-volume search phrase for National Stock Numbers used by Governments and there was a low difficulty score in achieving a high ranking in Google Search Results. The domain was chosen by analyzing the volume of search phrases for our industry in Google and in particular in the USA and UK, our primary markets.

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Steve Blank

JULY 12, 2010

The Vietnam War had just ended and I was out of the Air Force back in college living in Ann Arbor Michigan. Civilian life was good, the government was paying my tuition and I got a college work/study job in the University of Michigan physics department. I got asked, “Would you like to work at the nuclear reactor?”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

While many government agencies use Technology Readiness Levels to measure a projects technical maturity, there are no standards around Business Maturity Levels. It doesn’t replace private capital with government funds. And to our new teaching teams at University of Michigan and Georgia Tech – It’s your turn.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. The University of Michigan is a possible first test.) Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits. A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time for a change.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Last night I gave the kickoff talk to the West Michigan Policy Forum. I did my riff on Startup Communities and followed it up with a short Q&A on issues specific to Michigan’s entrepreneurial scene. The line I heard in the context of startup communities was “ the collision of the tucked and the untucked.”

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. Janesville, tells the story of laid-off factory workers of a General Motors factory that’s never going to reopen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. Every government form in England seemed to ask questions about my parents. We need more high-caliber people in Ohio, Michigan and other mid-Western states. In American we have people like Charles Best. At least not in California.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. government needs your help,’ and I remember saying, ‘The U.S. government accelerator that takes no equity.

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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. The clients, competitors, providers, intermediaries — distributors — and other public (such as the government or the press), are known as the company’s micro-moments.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2020

In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. The Size of Your Business Might Matter. In Kansas , workers comp insurance is required for all businesses with employees and with gross payroll over $20,000 a year. The Type of Employees You Have Might Matter.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Miss New York, now Miss America, is a Syracuse native and University of Michigan graduate, her name is Nina Davuluri. I thought, so that’s who won the contest this year — can we please get to the baseball scores? It would appear others had a different reaction. She’s the first woman of Indian descent to win the contest.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

As much as I’d like Three Oaks, Michigan to be an innovation center, its got a long way to go. I’d personally like to see Silicon Valley open its doors to immigrants from distant lands like Michigan, Kentucky, Alabama — even Hoosiers from Indiana.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Writing you today from Three Oaks, Michigan, aka “Michiana” Steve Case’s article this morning in the Washington Post – Why innovation and start-ups are thriving in ‘flyover’ country – is spot on. Rural areas have been neglected by both commercial companies and the government.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Greetings from gray and chilly Three Oaks, Michigan. government — it’s just not helpful to his cause at this point in time. ** Background information/FAQ Re: Dr. Alan Black ** . He has sent a letter to the UAE government expressing his remorse. As gloomy as it is, I’m grateful to be here and free.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Still others, like Civilla , have worked hand-in-hand with government to drive change – in its case taking a human-centered approach to make access to social services in Michigan far simpler. And, to achieve sustainable impact at scale, government and policy often must play a crucial role.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

More and more governing bodies are slashing taboos and favoring the research that supports the medicinal benefits of cannabis. Many salons have been born as a result of the program, including Salon Bogar in New Hampshire, Bespoke Beauty Bar in Pennsylvania, and The Avenue Hair Studio & Spa in Michigan.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 7, 2018

In 2015, as a full-time mom, she took on the US government in her small town of Flint, Michigan. She explained why there has never been a more important moment to explore and understand Earth’s imperiled oceans. Speaker Lee-Anne Walters is an advocate for public health, using her voice to bring about change.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 25, 2011

I listen to the radio when I’m in Michigan. Thank goodness because I’ve got no cable here and my web connection is pokey. It’s sort of a self-imposed news blackout. Radio is my one solid connection, so, I had NPR in the background yesterday when I heard a show that had Everything to do with [.].

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

This is the wrong time to bring down debt and government expenditure. Read: mortgages will not get cheaper, interest-wise, but the government is doing their best to ward off a real estate bubble. Robyn received her BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan and MSc in IPE from the LSE. More Israelis need to work.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The laws and regulations that govern healthcare are too numerous to list here. Michigan State University defines it this way: “Healthcare compliance is about a healthcare facility or organization maintaining compliance with a number of government agencies, acts, guidelines, and laws. What Is a Healthcare Compliance Officer?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Indian Government is focusing hard on education and here is some interesting news regarding their plans for providing $35 tablet computers to millions of students. “A computer with all normal functionalities at this price will not be sustainable unless it is subsidised by the government or the industry,&# he said.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us. Governments are also investing heavily in health care to combat chronic and critical illnesses.” Shortly after we moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore, we were fortunate to participate in Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Pitch Competition.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I lived and studied in Japan for a bit and focused on Japan during my undergraduate years at Michigan. The American system of higher education has evolved piecemeal, with little central planning from the Federal Government. Like the United States, the Japanese imported a Prussian/German model of education during the Meiji restoration.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This is not a government that’s run in Washington and does its own thing like Beijing does, or Moscow does in their country. This is a government of the people, by the people for the people. So the answer is- do not give up on your principles, your values, your way of life, your constitutional form of government.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Shout out to Michigan based XG Sciences , great to see what you’re up to. There are researchers in the USA fooling around with this stuff (notably Rice University, and to a lesser extent, IBM), but I don’t enough adventurous new start-ups yet. There are about 60 start-ups in the USA at this point, but folks, there should be 600.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda. So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. Then the government says ‘hey, great news!

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In April 2015, a mother in Flint, Michigan concerned about the city’s seemingly tainted water supply contacted Marc Edwards, an engineering professor who had previously helped expose a similar issue in Washington DC. Later that year, a Flint, Michigan pediatrician named Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha tested lead levels in local children.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 15, 2020

But the stability of our elections and our government does impact innovation in the long run, and maybe the short run. I’ll bring my current Michigan drivers license and my up to date Passport. Too Late To Fix This. It would be great if this problem of mail-in voting could be fixed before the election.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Pure Michigan is a Damaged Brand. As a Michigan resident I’ve followed the developments in Flint with a mixture of horror, sadness, outrage, and confusion. The focus of this post is about the damage that has been done to the state of Michigan’s brand, Pure Michigan. Pure Michigan is (or was) a brilliant brand.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

Through the right data sharing, governance and public-private partnerships— we can escape healthcare’s historically unsuccessful “fix via mandate” approach, pivoting to a patient-centered, just, healthcare system.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. I started Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC because I want to offer dog owners a safe and healthy treat option when it comes to their pups.

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