Looking forward to the Detroit Startup Week (May 22-26) and Techweek Detroit (May 23), here’s a look at just how fertile Detroit is when it comes to growing and sustaining new tech business. Announcement: Detroit is up off its deathbed, thank you very...
The Detroit Founder Friday speaker explains how she stumbled into the role of entrepreneur. By Molly McFarland (Founder & Chief Marketing Officer, AdAdapted) I never expected to be an entrepreneur. When Mike and I founded AdAdapted, I had been working in sales and...
Lately, Detroit has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, but for one recent grad working at a Detroit startup was a once in a lifetime opportunity. By Caroline Dobbins (Fellow, Challenge Detroit) I came to Detroit to “live, work, play, give and...
What one founder from Detroit observed during a visit to Entrepreneurial SPARK, Scotland’s accelerator. By Emily Hay (Founder, HayThereSocialMedia.com) As a non-technical founder of a social media marketing company, it has been an exciting – and often challenging —...
The quality I found of her that is really empowering is resilience. By Jenny Chan (Founder, Speed Daytwah) I was driving while Ping Fu came on NPR. My passengers, which happened to be two white males, were busy making fun of the name “Ping Fu”; I shushed them and...
