The Startup Lawyer

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Startup Weekend Dallas is now a true global startup battle. The winning team from Dallas will go head-to-head against the winning teams from Beirut, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, Portland, Seattle, Sofia, and Tulsa. What is Global Startup Battle?

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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 Chrysler’s ATL (Above the Line), “Eminem commercial” — that cost around 12 million $— is a perfect example of a well-focused, mass marketing campaign.

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Brandanew

JULY 20, 2016

Today, the company has 54 employees and operates in 115 cities globally. ( I have a great example to share from a local Detroit watch brand, called Shinola. They’ve created a great narrative around the city of Detroit and its working class roots. Within a year, Paint Nite became a full-time job for its founders.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

The global financial crisis served as a wake-up call to investors: few investments are immune to panicked selling activity. Of course, they can fall too as was the case during in global financial crisis. Take Detroit, Chicago, and Johannesburg as cases in point. Everyone seems to know a thing or two about investments.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

Techweek is in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Detroit this year. Society of Digital Agencies Global Member Meeting. Innovation Uncensored consistently impresses me with the new tech info it brings to the conference. It always has the newest, hottest brands there. John Hall , Influence & Co. .

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2016

This is the fourth marathon we’ve done together (Portland, Detroit, St. “Globally great, locally shitty.” ” We chucked a bit and I said “all my global variables are in an acceptable range but my local variables are completely screwed up.” More on that in a bit. Louis, and Huntsville).

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network. And learn from each other.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Outside of Detroit and a few other urban pockets in the state, it is hard to go anywhere that isn’t scenic. This is the message that is being sent to the global marketplace right now. And water, we’re surrounded by it, and most of it is about as clean and pure as you’d hope for.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2015

Fast-forward a few years, and MyLocker.net now sells customized gear all over the nation out of our Detroit headquarters. One of the most frustrating structures you see in monolithic, global corporations is when employees never interact with people from other departments. Interdepartmental communication.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

If Stockholm is Europe’s Silicon Valley, Gothenburg is Sweden’s Detroit. The slightly longer answer: The road freight industry is responsible for more than 5 percent of global CO2 emissions, it is one of the main sources of NOx emissions, it is inefficient, and it is capacity constrained (50,000 drivers short in the U.S.

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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. Global and Local. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In spite of all the ink that journalists, analysts, and pundits have spilled on Uber over the years, no mainstream article has focused on what I consider to be the most elegant feature of this now ubiquitous, high growth global service — no driver-partner is ever told where or when to work.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. The company has also grown from one Atlanta-based office to four offices in Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, and Detroit. Thanks to Chris Chancey, Amplio Recruiting ! #21- 21- Master my own destiny.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company. Global – I wanted my company to have a global reach. Nowlin, Excel Global Partners ! #10- She’s in Detroit, and I’m in Buffalo: two cities known for being in America’s Rust Belt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. And it was amazing how global travel was halted. Airbnb- Eric Ries : Airbnb was founded during a global recession. What if it works?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

They helped to globalize their innovation cycle and tap foreign expertise and resources. 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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Techstars Mobility (Detroit). When you ponder Techstars acquisition of UP Global, especially if you think about how horizontal scaling and geography intersect, you get a glimpse of another layer of functionality that we just added to the horizontal scaling model. Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

The last big recession was in the early 90′s where IT and globalization were in their infancy in terms of impact. Consumers hurting in Detroit or Biloxi will not continue to spend money they don’t have and income they’re not earning. We’re 2.5 years in and still down 5% from the peak. What gives?

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Brandanew

AUGUST 14, 2016

I mean, what we really hope for this Podcast to do is to reach more of you while you listen to Detroit 105 or whatever your true north is. Shikha Pahwa, the branding super-girl was in her 20s when she decided to flip this effect and creating something Indian that would stand globally tall and firm. Okay, I’m kidding.

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