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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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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Entrepreneurs starting out are typically stronger in sales and marketing than they are in other areas—I think it’s really important for them to get a grasp on financials and operations as well.”. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. Beth’s advice. Get a little help from your friends.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Plus, it’s within a designated NYS Empire Zone, so the incubator has benefits and incentives available to program participants, including investment tax credits, wage tax credits, and even exemption from sales tax.

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Detroit Windsor Tunnel Interview – How Do Market the Only Way to Cross the Border Under Water Without Getting Wet?

Rembrandt Communications

If so, you may want to check out the Detroit Windsor Tunnel and my StartupNation interview with Carolyn Brown, the DWT Executive Vice President, at [link] You see, The Detroit Windsor Tunnel is one of the great, engineering marvels of the world and is the only “vehicular international subaqueous [.].

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Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Crusaders

View from Seed

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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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Well if you’re in Detroit you’re 100x more likely to get somebody who grew up in Flint coming by twice per year for ordinary reasons unrelated to work. It creates a feeder system of local businesses that get their first biz dev deals or sales contracts. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on.

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Twitter Link Roundup #75 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Half of Detroit’s public schools being shut down? BlockBuster puts itself up for sale – [link]. Good points by @dhh about the end of the IT department – [link]. The iPad smackdown — 80 to 100 new tablets are coming from competitors – [link]. – [link].