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Jonathon Triest of Ludlow Ventures: “VC Done Right” (and in Detroit)

Hunter Walker

By some miracle I got into the University of Michigan, and soon started passing classes by developing strong relationships with my professors rather than living in the library. I’ve always had a passion for photography, so while at U of M I joined the Michigan Daily (the campus student publication) as a photographer. Let’s back up.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about Image Credit: Nancy D.

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How to Cultivate a Female-Friendly Cannabis Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

With recreational cannabis use legal in nine states (and soon a 10th, Michigan), the District of Columbia, and in Canada, the cannabis industry is steadily growing. With strain names like Durban Poison and Green Crack, cannabis firms will fight an uphill battle to attract women customers. But this is starting to change.

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12 Terrific Coworking Spaces in Chicago

crowdSPRING Blog

This coworking space gets its name from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but not to commemorate the fire itself. The name is a tribute to the innovation and passion that came after the fire, “a remarkable moment when the most brilliant engineers, architects and inventors came together to build a new city.” Merchandise Mart Plaza.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Sydney Gressel : My name is Sydney Gressel, and I'm a nurse at UCSF in the Benioff Children's Hospital in the pediatric emergency department. Ryan Sarver : My name is Ryan Sarver. You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. Sydney Gressel : One of my favorite meditation teachers is a man named Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Getty is the fourth green line. This is what it looks like, for our website and our images category leader… You can notice big differences in acquisition strategy right away – from the size of the boxes, and from, for example, seeing that Web Portals and Search is darker green (more growth) for Shutterstock than for us.

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