YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Known for its joy-making philosophy, Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has made Inc. He is the co-founder and CEO of Switch & Shift, an advocacy and consultancy focused on the human side of business, and host of the popular Work That Matters podcast. In a joyful workplace, people are more likely to contribute their best.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amy Chambers is the CEO and Co-founder of HealthBridge. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. She has over 25 years of experience working in the healthcare industry as both an employee benefits attorney and as a business builder. from the University of Chicago.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So the country in various sectors and from various business sizes and types,” says company co-founder, Adi Bittan. Feed a need.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

L3Cs were first formed in 2008, and are currently only legal in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, as well as the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. . How to Start a Nonprofit.

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View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

Founders: Ingrid Hung & Emily Persky . Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. And your least?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Assam Alzookery , Intvo founder and CEO, explains, “Our product solves the lack of communication between drivers and pedestrians. Alzookery is a University of Michigan graduate, but found inspiration in watching pedestrians and traffic interact in New York City. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam earned a BA in Communications Arts and Sciences from Michigan State University. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. Prior to joining Google, Sam worked at CNET, The Wall Street Journal Interactive and Ziff Davis and has over 15 years of experience selling media.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 20, 2014

The location was Journeyman Distillery in Three Oaks, Michigan. Indigan Storytellers is creating a community of like minded artists in southwest Michigan. The word Indigan is a mash-up of Indiana and Michigan. Credit to the founders for not defaulting to Michiana. As Rocky Balboa once said “you shoulda been there.”

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt. Many people used it as justification for stuff and there were very few critical responses that dug deeper on the history.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Last night I gave the kickoff talk to the West Michigan Policy Forum. I did my riff on Startup Communities and followed it up with a short Q&A on issues specific to Michigan’s entrepreneurial scene.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2018

by Dishan Jayasinha, founder, CEO and creative head of DG Studio. 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. Like every art, discipline, or professional project, marketing also requires a set of systematic principles.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Most recently, I met up with one of the founders of the Arbor Brewing company, Rene Greff. Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. It is the first brewpub set up in Ann Arbor and the fifth in Michigan. Rene : It wasn’t an easy decision.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 20, 2021

Three Oaks, Michigan, Wednesday April 21st, an announcement on International Creativity and Innovation Day. CPS first started being used in the early 1950’s, created by the founder of brainstorming, Alex Osborn. Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. Osborn wrote “Applied Imagination.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Nina Tandon , CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

” chants will come from the Twitter Peanut Gallery, and many VCs do — there are outcomes like Duo in Michigan, Qualtrics in Utah, or Atlassian in Australia. “Get a plane!” For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Also, ensure you know why the founder is planning to sell the business. For example, if you are only looking for businesses for sale in Michigan , you will need to type in a search result on third party sites that reflects this. To make a sound investment decision, you’ll need to do your research well. Use Business Brokers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

I ended up at Michigan State because I got a scholarship…Once I got there, I was lost…unfocused…and had no idea of who I was and why I was in school. I dropped out of Michigan State University after the first semester. In the middle of a Michigan winter, I stuck out my thumb and hitchhiked to Miami, the warmest place I could think of.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

I really didn’t have much of a resume – four years in the Air Force , building a scram system for a nuclear reactor , a startup in Ann Arbor Michigan but not much else. Ben ended up as my mentor at Convergent (and for the rest of my career), my peer at Ardent and my partner and co-founder at Epiphany.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 28, 2016

Charles Best , their founder, is a former teacher and one of the most talented leaders I know, non-profit or otherwise. As one example, in February of 2015, months before the scandal was exposed, a teacher in Flint, Michigan requested bottled water for her students. So here we chat a bit about DC and their work.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

We suggest that the founders/CEO invest 1 hour a week providing advisors and investors with “Continuous Information Access” by blogging and discussing their progress online in their startup’s search for a business model. Founders operate in a chaotic regime. Now, as soon as the founders post an update, everyone is notified.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Brett Kopf is the CEO and co-founder of Remind 101 , a communications solution for teachers, students, and parents. Because I had no idea how this texting/reminder thing would work, I stood on the sidewalks of Michigan State University (MSU) asking complete strangers for their syllabi.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

Ilya Pozin is the founder of Open Me and Ciplex and is a columnist for Inc, Forbes & LinkedIn. Plants in the office are part of something University of Michigan psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan call “attention restoration theory.”. Can a little greenery boost your productivity?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Stock Quotes.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

But as I tried to find my own path in this, it became clear that there are MANY resources for small startups in Ann Arbor, and today throughout Michigan. We also have a scientific team, consisting of three chemical engineers in addition to Jan, who is the founder and the inventor. There are many more, just in the state of Michigan.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Being a native of West Michigan, I know a lot about snow! I heard this at a conference from the founder of the Geek Squad and former CTO of Best Buy, Robert Stephens:”Advertising is the price you pay for being unremarkable.” . #5 – Grab every opportunity as if it were a falling snowflake. Image Credit : Sid Simone.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. His co-founder, Eric, was the best young executive that we had at Opsware and is building Rockmelt into a great company and a great place to work.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

Allen Kim, co-founder of Bebarang, a student at the University of Michigan, won the College Entrepreneur of the Year. He also gave a lot of credit to his co-founder and others on the team, and talked about how the idea started with watching his sister dealing with the problem and expense of keeping clothes on her baby daughter.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

Signs of the frenzy include an increase in Startup Buses from one to six this year, a busload of MBA students from Michigan who are out to networks with startups, and recent tech investor Ashton Kutcher making an appearance at the Foursquare party. I posed this question to FamigoGames co-founder Q Beck. Some of them will.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It was at the request of Thomas Zurbuchen and Doug Neal who lead the University of Michigan College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship. Somehow it’s ironic that Google allowed me to find its co-founder in a picture that I’ve had for 18 years and I’ve looked at many times before. Bookmark the permalink.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

Allen Kim, co-founder of Bebarang, a student at the University of Michigan, won the College Entrepreneur of the Year. He also gave a lot of credit to his co-founder and others on the team, and talked about how the idea started with watching his sister dealing with the problem and expense of keeping clothes on her baby daughter.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. I’m starting to accept that Steve Jobs is gone.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

We suggest that the founders/CEO invest one hour a week providing advisors and investors with "Continuous Information Access" by blogging and discussing the progress of their startup's search for a business model online. Structure : Founders operate in a chaotic regime. Now, as soon as the founders post an update, everyone is notified.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In April 2015, a mother in Flint, Michigan concerned about the city’s seemingly tainted water supply contacted Marc Edwards, an engineering professor who had previously helped expose a similar issue in Washington DC. Later that year, a Flint, Michigan pediatrician named Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha tested lead levels in local children.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2015

By Robert Hake, Founder and CEO of MyLocker.net. Technology is always developing; today, a Michigan-based doctor can video-chat with a doctor in Mumbai and ask for a second insight on groundbreaking test results. You need creativity to keep going, and you need creativity from your employees to keep growing. Embrace new technologies.

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