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Can competition among team members drive results? Detroit’s LevelEleven bets...
LevelEleven helps kick your salesforce’s performance up a notch for those instances where you “need that extra push over the cliff.” The Software-as-a-Service company accomplishes this by introducing...
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Detroit startups: Biggest bankruptcy ever just sets up ‘greatest turnaround...
Detroit filed the largest city bankruptcy in the history of the United States on Thursday. And that’s a great thing, according to the growing and vital cadre of startups that are helping to repopulate...
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You’ll never guess which city has the worst gas-guzzling used cars
Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now If you want to buy a used Toyota Prius, don’t go shopping for one in Detroit. The Motor City has the worst fuel economy among used cars, according...
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Facebook scoops Google ad manager to help Detroit sell more cars
Eutechnyx Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Former Google ad manager Michelle Morris has joined Facebook to help car companies sell more vehicles on Facebook, the company announced...
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Welcome to the Detroit startup scene
GUEST: Want to master the CMO role? Join us for GrowthBeat Summit on June 1-2 in Boston, where we'll discuss how to merge creativity with technology to drive growth. Space is limited and we're limiting...
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FTC calls Michigan’s Tesla ban ‘protectionism’ for dealers
Tesla Motors has had varied success in its efforts to fight state laws making its direct online-sales model illegal. The electric-car maker lost a round in Michigan last fall, but now a government...
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Google hires auto industry talent to push self-driving car past experimental...
(Reuters) – Google’s self-driving car team is expanding and hiring more people with automotive industry expertise, underscoring the company’s determination to move the division past the experimental...
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Cadillac president: Self-driving cars ‘spell the demise of the traditional...
Detroit grew rich and fat on the one-person, one-car ethos of the American Dream. But new technologies for driving won’t just change how we get from A to B — they’ll also change how we pay for...
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Why I love the Detroit startup scene
GUEST: People often ask me, “Why did you move from San Francisco to, uh, Detroit?” The answer is easy. In 10 years, San Francisco will be as good as it is today, but Detroit will be a roaring city once...
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5 chat services with the potential to change democracy
On the last 4th of July, VentureBeat took a look at five bots that could reshape or change democracy. One year later, we revisit the bot landscape with the same idea in mind. Outlier Media Detroit has...
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Detroit’s high-paying jobs are following wherever tech companies go
Over the weekend, a nonprofit called Detroit Future City released a report titled “139 Square Miles,” detailing changes in Detroit’s population, jobs, economy, neighborhoods, and housing market. While...
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Heartland Tech Weekly: The risk of letting tech jobs cluster
On Monday, I wrote about a new report that found that Detroit’s highest-paying jobs are becoming increasingly clustered in the city’s downtown and midtown neighborhoods — areas where techcompanies like...
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5 U.S. cities Amazon should consider for HQ2
ANALYSIS: Amazon sent Heartland cities scrambling on Thursday morning with the announcement that it is looking to secure a location for what it calls HQ2 — a second office in North America that the...
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How Detroit’s automotive roots made it a hub for transportation startups
GUEST: Six years and 59 days ago, I moved from San Francisco to Detroit. My friends thought I was crazy moving from one of the fastest-growing American cities to one of the most downtrodden. But I saw...
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Detroit’s Amazon HQ2 proposal: $120 million for talent development, and a...
As Amazon tries to keep its HQ2 selection process under wraps, details continue to leak at a steady rate. Last week, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that a lobbyist representing Amazon...
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Michigan’s ‘Marshall Plan for Talent’ aims to become model for tech education...
As tech executives call for state education programs to do a better job of providing STEM education, states are jockeying to show that they are attuned to the industry’s needs. This week, Michigan’s...
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Why Michigan is the Midwest’s most improved startup community
GUEST: PitchBook’s recent report on the 3 critical factors for a strong venture ecosystem — density, resources, and talent — led me on a quest to find where, beyond the typical major cities discussed...
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Heartland Tech Weekly: Promising tech hubs won’t all rise together
An interesting report came out this week from the Center for American Entrepreneurship, detailing the progress that’s been made in American startup communities over the last three years. The report...
View ArticleGreenlancer: reinventing the construction industry via crowdsourcing and the...
DETROIT — It’s not completely uncommon in these modern and advanced times to find Thomas Friedman the-world-is-flat-style disaggregated work that is sent to various locations all over the globe to be...
View ArticleLocal-search site Stik leaves Silicon Valley for Detroit, announces $2.5...
DETROIT — How do you succeed online in the crowded, noisy, and sometimes scammy local search market? If you’re Stik.com, you succeed by focusing on consumer transactions that are infrequent, expensive,...
View ArticleBillionaire entrepreneur Dan Gilbert on Detroit, entrepreneurship, business,...
Disclosure: Quicken Loans invited me to come to Detroit after I wrote about the city. The company paid most of my expenses, including flight and hotel. My reporting, however, is my own. DETROIT — Dan...
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New York City could be the biggest winner of tech’s West Coast exodus
Amazon and Google are reportedly planning large expansions in New York City. That's bad news for Midwestern cities looking to grow their tech communities.Read More
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5 startup trends that shaped the Midwest in 2018
In the Midwest, startups in these 5 industries raised impressive amounts of venture capital, and completed successful exits this year.Read More
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10 startups outside of Silicon Valley to watch in 2019
The next generation of U.S. tech companies to reach unicorn status is going to hail from a diverse array of locations across the country.Read More
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Verizon brings 5G to Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Washington D.C.
Verizon's 5G network opens today in parts of four more cities, this time including very significant coverage for Washington D.C., where regulators work.Read More
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AI Weekly: Detroit’s facial recognition battle is about the ends justifying...
The Detroit Police Department hopes to convince Rep. Rashida Tlaib that in its use of facial recognition software, the ends justify the means.Read More
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Rep. Tlaib v Detroit PD, round 2, was a missed opportunity to bridge facial...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib's visit to the Detroit Police Department's facial recognition policing headquarters did not go well and seemed counterproductive.Read More
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Facial recognition software vendor vows to thwart misuse after wrongful...
Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing said on Wednesday it would “add legal means” and research other ways to thwart misuse.Read More
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Detroit’s fight over policing and facial recognition is a microcosm of the...
Everything you need to know about policing and facial recognition is happening right now in Detroit, where the scales are tipping.Read More
View ArticleTreehouse takes its coding education tools to Detroit
Treehouse, a learn-to-code-online company, is putting its platform where its mouth is and taking on one of America’s toughest towns, economically speaking: Detroit. The startup is embarking on a...
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