The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Ann Arbor, Columbus, Detroit, and Minneapolis have continued their rich vein of form, spitting out Midwest startups and raising venture capital at insane rates. The Global Fight for Talent. Similarly, the fight for global talent has gone global. Across the Midwest, regional champions have risen.
Up and Running
AUGUST 6, 2014
An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Given that of all existing U.S. Social Enterprise UK .
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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.
The Next Web
JANUARY 4, 2014
Velocity Web Performance and Operations. Every year I go to Velocity , and I trade notes with some of the smartest operations guys around on the latest Web performance and operations, which results in huge savings and performance increases for my company. Society of Digital Agencies Global Member Meeting.
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.
Haystack
JULY 20, 2018
Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Global and Local. On the ground, I am seeing more hybrid solutions.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 6, 2019
Several years prior to this my wife started a newborn photography business, over time I became more involved in the back end operations of the business and within several years had helped her grow her business into a full-time professional position. This lead to me needing to find a new career, and fast! 21- Master my own destiny.
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