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. Social Enterprise UK .

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. In my experience founders usually fall into one of three types: mercenaries, missionaries, and crusaders.

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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. They understand that with the emergence of remote work, they can compete globally for talent, rather than restricting their hiring to their operational geography. .

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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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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. Their top 10 answers are below. Phil Chen , Givit. .

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The term mission creep originated with military operations where military leaders decided to shift operations to adapt to new information or changing circumstances. Nonprofits are not designed to be all things to all people, and your board should not be motivated to try. Examples of Mission Creep Where Nonprofits Crept Back.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2016

To provide an inside perspective on what it takes to run and maintain a successful B&B, I interviewed Kathleen Karamanos, owner and operator of Fundy Heights Bed and Breakfast in Saint John, New Brunswick, on Canada’s scenic East Coast. What is a bed and breakfast?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

For young families, independent trucking provides a great way to own and operate a family business. Somebody has to keep those big Detroit diesels running. Major fleet operators are paying top dollar for exceptionally skilled mechanics. If you’re a woman interested in getting into this industry, now is a great time.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2019

Despite regulatory complications and federal illegality, becoming a multi-state operator, or MSO, is still one of the most valuable things you can do for your company in the cannabis industry. Identify industry operators that do things well and reach out. Roll your sleeves up and find other good people who are actual operators. .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2014

It’s important to note that many of today’s small businesses are owned and operated by women. 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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Austin Startup

APRIL 7, 2017

I spent the next seven years in the tech ecosystems of San Francisco, New York City, and even back in hometown Detroit, taking on various operating and investing roles. But as is usually the case, things worked out. After seven long years, my journey has come full circle to where it should have been from the start.

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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. Now that things in most markets have begun moving again, Proos Manufacturing is growing.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 24, 2015

Earlier this year I was impressed by, and donated to, Detroit Water Project , which helps pay off water bills for people who need assistance. Brett Hagler: We started New Story with a mindset to operate just like a for-profit tech startup. Invest into our operations. To us, there should be no difference in mentality.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 7, 2012

I mean the music, the record label, not the great city of Detroit. Hitsville were amazing, they put on a show that had every gray hair in the audience off their asses and dancing.

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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. Now that’s operating in uncertainty. I’ve made some mistakes that are inadvertent but that needed to be undone. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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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. MyLocker.net contracted local Detroit graffiti artist, Antonio “Shades” Agee , to paint custom murals for our headquarters’ walls. Interdepartmental communication. Bring creativity into the office.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

You meet interesting people backstage at conferences and in 2013 that included Jonathon Triest who started Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures. HW: Sooooo Detroit VC scene. We moved our offices to Downtown Detroit nearly three years ago and the transformation has been spectacular. That’s not something I’ve seen outside of Detroit.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

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 David Pressler, Safe dooms ! #11- 11- The city needed my expertise. Photo Credit: Candice Simons.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

iOS – a brand new operating system that doesn’t run a single one of the millions of applications that have been developed for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Tesla – instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network.

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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). On the ground, I am seeing more hybrid solutions.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. They helped to globalize their innovation cycle and tap foreign expertise and resources.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

She’s in Detroit, and I’m in Buffalo: two cities known for being in America’s Rust Belt. After much thought and what felt like game show tactics, I came up with the acronym OASIS: Operation And Strategic Implementation Services. Thanks to Skot Carruth, Philosophie Group, Inc ! #13- 13- America’s rust belt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. They're our shareholders, they're our employees, they're our hosts, they're our guests, and they're also the communities we operate in. You can't really operate. 500,000 to Detroit. First the news out of China, then Europe, then here in the U.S. Well, who are they?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. Sydney Gressel : Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Mostly we got to see the team operate in stressful times and that changed my perspective on the deal. Consumers hurting in Detroit or Biloxi will not continue to spend money they don’t have and income they’re not earning. Depressing. It felt awful. Kind of like you felt as personal investors, no doubt. And Social.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

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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. There has been a lot of learning in doing the operations, in reverse logistics and in customer fulfillment. Okay, I’m kidding. I am going to quickly introduce who we will meet today.

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