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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

In the Motor City, technology startups can turn to the super-cool Tech Town incubator, a program created by Wayne State University to reignite Detroit’s entrepreneurial culture. Even established corporations can’t resist the attraction of Tech Town: the Henry Ford Health System relocated its genetics labs to Tech Town’s research space.

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Michigan Innovation — Gonzeaux Tour Begins

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I mean the music, the record label, not the great city of Detroit. Hitsville were amazing, they put on a show that had every gray hair in the audience off their asses and dancing.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

In 2000, Mike co-founded AvidXchange and has been building it ever since. And, through our deep relationship with Techstars, our reach and network is even further and includes cities like Detroit, Kansas City, Austin, Chicago, San Antonio, and San Diego.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I was a veteran in the outdoor advertising industry in chicago and decided to move back to my roots in Detroit and support/build the local economy in the city that made me. I sent out over 2000 resumes over about 3 months and got nothing. Thanks to David Pressler, Safe dooms ! #11- 11- The city needed my expertise.

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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 of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s. 500,000 to Detroit. And when I got to RISD, there was this new movement happening. At the time it was called the green movement. Now we would consider it sustainability and global warming, climate change. So 20 years ago.

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Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

conversionxl.com

What’s the best way to sell a $2000 wristwatch? Louis and Detroit. Once you’ve seen a $150 burger on the menu, $50 sounds reasonable for a steak. At Ralph Lauren, that $16,995 bag makes a $98 T-shirt look cheap. Right next to a $12 000 watch. This mental process has a name. It’s called anchoring and adjustment.

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