YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Known for its joy-making philosophy, Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has made Inc. He is the co-founder and CEO of Switch & Shift, an advocacy and consultancy focused on the human side of business, and host of the popular Work That Matters podcast. magazine’s fastest growing U.S. companies list multiple times.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amy Chambers is the CEO and Co-founder of HealthBridge. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. She has over 25 years of experience working in the healthcare industry as both an employee benefits attorney and as a business builder. from the University of Chicago.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

Chairman Alan Todd was formerly Founder and CEO of KnowledgePlanet, the largest cloud-based learning management system, which was acquired by a private equity consortium; and Founder and CEO of KnowledgeSoft, the largest IT training company in the mid-Atlantic region, which was acquired by Technicsource. Grovo solves this problem.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt. Many people used it as justification for stuff and there were very few critical responses that dug deeper on the history.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors. Instead the founders need to lead a customer development team. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam earned a BA in Communications Arts and Sciences from Michigan State University. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. Prior to joining Google, Sam worked at CNET, The Wall Street Journal Interactive and Ziff Davis and has over 15 years of experience selling media.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Both companies will jointly be investing in activities that foster innovation and supporting startups, beginning with Women 2.0 ‘s signature networking event Founder Friday. has held over 200 Founder Friday events in 30 global cities. To date, Women 2.0 “Google is excited to team up with Women 2.0 ”

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2022

It took a lot of creative meetings between my co-founder and I before we came up with meaningful names. Growing up, my friends shortened the sound of my name nash-a-nee-an to Nash, so when I opened my first business in Ypsilanti, Michigan, I decided to name it Nash Contracting.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Nina Tandon , CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

. “The KILN System has been used by large companies with established early-stage innovation processes since KILN launched at the Front-End-of-Innovation EMEA conference in Berlin in early 2011,” said Gregg Fraley, co-founder and Chief Solver of Kiln Ideas Ltd.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I would work full-time making software all day, and at night I would go home and give ski instructions here in Michigan. Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs. I actually had this problem.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

I really didn’t have much of a resume – four years in the Air Force , building a scram system for a nuclear reactor , a startup in Ann Arbor Michigan but not much else. Ben ended up as my mentor at Convergent (and for the rest of my career), my peer at Ardent and my partner and co-founder at Epiphany.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

She is the founder and CEO of JAM a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play since its inception as one of the largest adult recreational sports leagues in the world. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcasts. (00:52): You can find it @marketingassessment.co, not.com, co.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2012

DJ Waldow is an email marketing consultant, writer, blogger, speaker, and co-author of The Rebel’s Guide to Email Marketing. He is the founder and CEO of Waldow Social , a company that helps clients take their email marketing programs to the next level. What other methods are you using to grow your email list? If You Liked This Post.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

I ended up at Michigan State because I got a scholarship…Once I got there, I was lost…unfocused…and had no idea of who I was and why I was in school. I dropped out of Michigan State University after the first semester. In the middle of a Michigan winter, I stuck out my thumb and hitchhiked to Miami, the warmest place I could think of.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Brett Kopf is the CEO and co-founder of Remind 101 , a communications solution for teachers, students, and parents. Because I had no idea how this texting/reminder thing would work, I stood on the sidewalks of Michigan State University (MSU) asking complete strangers for their syllabi.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. His co-founder, Eric, was the best young executive that we had at Opsware and is building Rockmelt into a great company and a great place to work.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

Allen Kim, co-founder of Bebarang, a student at the University of Michigan, won the College Entrepreneur of the Year. You can click here for more on Derek and Bebarang. He described his company as “Netflix for baby clothes.&# His key to success is making a difference, helping parents solve a problem.

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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 am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. 12 – It was Just Time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With recreational cannabis use legal in nine states (and soon a 10th, Michigan), the District of Columbia, and in Canada, the cannabis industry is steadily growing. Bridget Hoffer, the co-founder of Marigold Marketing and Public Relations, explains : Now there are products emerging that women are saying ‘this is more tailored to me.’

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

But as I tried to find my own path in this, it became clear that there are MANY resources for small startups in Ann Arbor, and today throughout Michigan. We also have a scientific team, consisting of three chemical engineers in addition to Jan, who is the founder and the inventor. There are many more, just in the state of Michigan.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

Allen Kim, co-founder of Bebarang, a student at the University of Michigan, won the College Entrepreneur of the Year. You can click here for more on Derek and Enovative. He described his company as “Netflix for baby clothes.&# His key to success is making a difference, helping parents solve a problem.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2011

After OfficeMax’s first year, we’d actually grown nicely and were operating stores in Ohio, New York, and Michigan. Michael Feuer cofounded OfficeMax in 1988 starting with one store and $20,000 of his own money, a partner, and a small group of investors. Better yet, we’d done so with no real casualties and just a few wounds.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

Signs of the frenzy include an increase in Startup Buses from one to six this year, a busload of MBA students from Michigan who are out to networks with startups, and recent tech investor Ashton Kutcher making an appearance at the Foursquare party. I posed this question to FamigoGames co-founder Q Beck. Some of them will.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 18, 2016

Well, that’s exactly what the founders of Gradescope thought. They co-founded Gradescope with Pieter Abbeel, a Stanford PhD and an Associate Professor of Robotics and Machine Learning at UC Berkeley, and Ibrahim Awwal. Graders can be co-located or remote (something that was hard to do before!)

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Altgate

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It was at the request of Thomas Zurbuchen and Doug Neal who lead the University of Michigan College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship. Somehow it’s ironic that Google allowed me to find its co-founder in a picture that I’ve had for 18 years and I’ve looked at many times before. Bookmark the permalink.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. I’m starting to accept that Steve Jobs is gone.

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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. Case , you may recall, was co-founder of AOL.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

18 South Michigan Avenue, Floor 12. There’s a co-working and conference room available for booking, and a full-service kitchen and rooftop deck to enjoy the fresh produce available on site from the farm. In addition to supporting local tech startups, BLUE 1647 also strives to be an education center. 405 W Superior, Floor 5 & 7.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

MaryAnn Bekkedahl is Co-Founder & President of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009. If You Liked This Post.

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