Investor, venture capitalist, podcaster and internet historian Brian McCullough joins us on the Daily Detroit podcast to talk about how to build up startup and technology companies
[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-33-Happy_hour_Amanda_Lewan_mixdown.mp3″ image=”http://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/2/9/b/429b7ae4400ffd60/height_480_width_640_overlay_amanda-lewan-square.jpg” twitter_username=”TheDailyDetroit” ] For today’s episode of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour podcast, Sven Gustafson sits down with Amanda Lewan, who, along with the organization she leads, Bamboo Detroit, is part of flipping the script when it comes to entrepreneur...
With the rise of startups and entrepreneurship in downtown Detroit, an industry that has been on the upswing is co-working and shared office spaces. With many traditional leases for space being in terms of five or ten years, co-working and shared offices allow flexibility and is utilized by companies large and small. Bamboo Detroit announced that they have signed a lease for an additional 3,000 sq. ft. to add on to their current footprint that’s more than 6,000 square feet. Bamboo moved to 142...
Ann Arbor and Detroit. They are less than an hour away from each other. One has the highest internet usage in the state. The other, the lowest. Ann Arbor is decently packed together; if you look at the Detroit region especially, it’s very geographically spread out. Why should they care about one another? We sat down with Kelly LaPierre, managing director of the Desai Accelerator, at the Mackinac Policy Conference and talked about that. She’s worked trying to get things started in both cities....
Do you like local restaurants? Do you look for locally sourced food when you go out? Have a smartphone? Here’s something that is just for you. Meet Grubbable, the Detroit-based app that works like a Wikipedia for your favorite local Detroit and Metro Detroit restaurants, but it also gives you discounts. How? By learning more about the local farms and artisans each restaurant uses. “When they eat at any old chain, they are supporting often unsustainable agriculture, cruel environmental practi...
Startup Weekend is this weekend! May 29-31, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. What is Startup Weekend? A weekend-long event for people interested in bringing an idea to life. You’ll meet developers, designers, and marketers who are interested in building businesses. The basic format includes an opportunity for attendees to get to know each other a bit more over pizza. So that everyone can get comfortable pitching ideas, there are some creative pitch exercises. Each attendee can pitch their own...
Breaking into the food business is hard, especially as a chef, and definitely in a town like Detroit that’s better known for hot coneys than haute cuisine. YumVillage is trying to make it a lot easier, and they’re finding success doing it. What is YumVillage? YumVillage is a cloud-based service that enables a “Table D’ Hote” (a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant) that brings together food enthusiasts around communal tables to s...
Startup Weekend is like no other event or competition. It compresses many of the key aspects of a startup into 2.5 days. You pitch an idea, lobby for that idea, recruit or join a team, validate your idea, talk to potential customers, build your technology, and at the end of it all, present what you’ve accomplished. Here’s an account of how Startup Weekend Detroit 2013 went for me: First Night, Friday: Pitching gives you the chance to express an idea in 60 seconds. Everyone should pitch an...
The Macomb-Oakland University INCubator, based in Sterling Heights, is offering up a variety of cash and prize incentives for entrepreneurs in the high-growth technology space. If there’s one thing that it’s pretty obvious Detroit area entrepreneurs need, it’s cash and support. The “Macomb Pitch: A Competition For Small Businesses” is a panel-judged competition for Michigan-based businesses with revenue of less than or equal to $2.5 million have been in business less than or equal to three yea...
