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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

This year we will hit our 100,000th person on experiential tours of Detroit and launch a new program that shares lessons learned with other leaders. The DXF Institute will offer in-depth full-day and multi-day learning experiences in Detroit. These experiences will focus on innovation and inspiration by using Detroit as a classroom.

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Mission Creep: How Nonprofits Can Stay True to Their Missions

Board Effect

Employees and staff members will likely become confused and wonder whether the nonprofit is worth investing their time in. Furthermore, mission creep can harm your nonprofit’s reputation. Straying from the mission — even a little — may require additional funds or people, causing a strain on the budget. Cunningham and Eleanor M.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

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. Additional resources to help you with hiring: Is It Time to Hire an Employee?

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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. I was not an early employee of Google, nor did I exit a company for 6 zillion dollars. HW: Sooooo Detroit VC scene. That’s not something I’ve seen outside of Detroit. Jonathon : Oh man.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Who knows exactly how these factors combine to booststartups in Silicon Valley and squish them in Detroit, but itsclear they do from the number of startups per capita in each. The danger here is that you ruin your reputation. Afterthat theres not much.

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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

He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. 47:49) Brian on the letter he wrote to employees to announce the layoffs and the response to it. (50:17) 6,000, 7,000 employees.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming.