The Startup Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

A Buzzfeed survey in the same year, however, revealed that Uber drivers in Detroit, Denver, and Houston took home less than $13-25 per hour after expenses. In Detroit, drivers earned an average of just $8.77 Late-night customers heading home from bars are more likely to fall sick in a car. per hour. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

I want to fail because I backed an extraordinary entrepreneur with a super-ambitious project and we were just wrong about market timing, customer adoption, competition, regulation or similar. They run a firm based in Detroit called Ludlow Ventures and do deals on a national level. But if I fail, I want to fail for the right reasons.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. Detroit show sucked – [link]. You need to be HUMAN, not amateur, when building communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? 1:13:30 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law and Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

He also famously championed a philosophy of not having salespeople , and though that ultimately wasn’t the case Butterfield and others did spread a commercial model centered more on bottoms-up adoption and customer success teams than traditional outbound sales which is now being replicated across many B2B software businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. A recent California event packed in 100,000 people.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Detroit, MI. With Local Services, you have the ability to advertise your business on Google and receive leads directly from potential customers. It’s still your job to turn them into customers. Limited wasted time, as customers choose you (no chasing). Increased odds of turning more leads into customers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Her company, Citizen Made , which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant , giving it the funding it needed to open a new office in New York City. About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. There was a computer training lab run by a company called Prosoft, but that's like having an Apex Tech and expecting to be the next Detroit.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2018

According to Kotler & Keller, the word “product” also stands for “services, events, people, places, organizations and ideas” These marketing specialists also emphasize the importance of creating experiences for the customers, more than just offering an article, like Walt Disney did with his magical films and theme parks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2016

Unfortunately, many real cities don’t work this way (look at the problems Detroit and Los Angeles face), and companies sometimes spend more time fighting than collaborating. Otherwise, another competitor will rise up and serve the customers you’re ignoring by watching each other.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Locations and dates : Miami, May 1-7; Detroit, May 19-25; Chicago, June 23-29; New York, September 29-October 5; Los Angeles, November 17-23. And while you’re networking, you’ll learn from other startups and established businesses that are connecting businesses with customers in new and innovative ways. Dates : February 17-21.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

For entrepreneurs in and around the tech industry, conferences are an excellent way to get up to speed on the latest developments, find great new services, and get a read on potential clients and customers — plus, you never know who else you’ll meet. Techweek is in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Detroit this year.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

A tech entrepreneur and inventor, Brandon McNaughton was entrepreneur in residence for Detroit Innovate , an early-stage venture fund. Relationships with customers, it’s relationships with your employees, your investors, because when you buy something, there’s an expectation, there’s a back and forth. .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2014

If there is a product similar to yours available in store or online, how is your product and customer service going to be better or different? Count Me In offers lots of resources like the upcoming Business Accelerators in Los Angeles, Detroit and Charlotte, NC, as well as free webinars and a Meet Up Groups in 12 cities across the country.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. Bet Ann Arbor and the Detroit Metro area have a few startups in that space. The Center for Entrepreneurship in the Engineering School is akin to Stanford’s STVP program. It offers 35 entrepreneurship courses.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2013

The finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and honored at a black-tie gala on June 20, 2013 at the MGM Grand, Detroit. In the 1980s, Proos was about 80 percent automotive in its manufacturing—and that was to one customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

By not forcing the publisher to go through a Gaikai portal where they tried to control customers, they engendered trust from the publishers. 16:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for their support of the show. That let people play popular titles, for example, directly in Facebook. Is that a real trend?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2015

We needed custom blankets for a client, and when we saw a pile of thermal pizza delivery bags, we were inspired to back our fleece blankets with pizza bag lining for an insulated prototype. Fast-forward a few years, and MyLocker.net now sells customized gear all over the nation out of our Detroit headquarters.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2016

There may have been a time when opening a B&B in the greater Detroit area may have been successful; however, given the economic hardships that area has been facing in the last 10-15 years, it hardly seems like a solid business venture now. Alternative Funding Sources. Asking Friends and Family for Money.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 19, 2015

was then known), and other mobile manufacturers lost billions trying to appease their existing customer base while Apple’s futuristic approach stole them away. Musk went further, and is winning big. This same principle helps to explain Apple’s and Amazon’s successes, too. ” land.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2004

Why were their in-house programming staffs writing the same sorts of custom programs written at thousands of other companies? If Detroit car makers can collaborate on research, why couldn’t U.S. technology users?” ” The project is in its early stages but has grand ambitions.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. We pivoted the company toward what the market wanted, and what our users and customer wanted, but away from my initial vision and passion. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. .

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2011

But by 1901, Ransom Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and in the next decade was quickly followed by other innovators who opened large scale manufacturing plants in Detroit – Henry Packard, Henry Leland’s Cadillac, and Henry Ford with the Model A. More importantly, Sloan led by example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

For example, there’s a high school principal in my book who was leading a severely under-performing school in Detroit where 80% of students were on food stamps. We found that a very strong purpose orientation has three components: what value do you create for others—customers, co-workers, company?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Everyday I am proud of the work our team does and of the success our customers have had making the change. 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. Thanks to Tony Mandarano, ZampleBox ! #9-

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. The startups will also have the option of using office space on Microsoft’s Bellevue, Wash.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. This is a very clever way of helping new funds get their footing and hearing about what is working before others may pick up the scent.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The company has also grown from one Atlanta-based office to four offices in Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, and Detroit. The best part about it is that rather than working for customers I’d never have a chance to meet with or even talk to, I get to interact with our customers on a daily basis. 21- Master my own destiny.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Maybe once it grows I’ll take it to Detroit or Ohio even and be present in multiple cities! Thank you for sharing your story Dave, we hope to be customers and give you a brand new high five too! For your customers , investors and even the media. You need to know the customer value that your brand brings.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Josh is the CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners. Josh's post, entitled, "Five Disaster Moves to Botch Your Pitch" discusses 5 key blunders that he sees entrepreneurs making everyday, both when pitching him and pitching to partners and customers. Here are Josh's 5 "disaster moves" along with my commentary.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

parent company while providing technical services for foreign customers. Silicon Valley, Herzliya in Israel, Zhongguancun for software and Shenzen for hardware in China are examples of technology clusters, but so was Detroit for cars, Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion.).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

We knew that we wanted our new consulting firm to focused on improving customers top line revenue growth. She’s in Detroit, and I’m in Buffalo: two cities known for being in America’s Rust Belt. Thanks to Amanda Austin, Little Shop of Miniatures ! #4- 4- Our main focus. Photo Credit: LaVon Koerner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. Your customers and your investors like partners? It is one of the most iconic 21st century brands and almost all of us have been customers. 500,000 to Detroit.

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

What will work for you depends on your industry, product and customer. Setting a fair suggested price gives the customer a true sense of value. It reveals you have a reserve price, and instead of offering a sale, customers must “guess” how low you’ll go. Louis and Detroit. more at the supermarket? Suggested price.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2004

I encourage you to try the demo to customize a few ads on your own. Comcast says it can direct ads to narrow zones of 1,000 to 20,000 homes in a growing number of cities, including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, and Phildelphia. Username is Business2 and password is visibleworld.

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