I had the good fortune a week or so ago to attend the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit. Among the people that I met while there was attorney Alec Gibbs, who, in recent years, has been keeping busy representing retired public employees left without adequate insurance in the wake of the Emergency Manager takeover of […]
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Among the people in the audience at Thursday night’s “Doing Business in Ypsilanti” panel, was a woman who has been tasked by Washtenaw County to study the needs of non-venture capital funded entrepreneurs, and make suggestions as to how we might better support them. Her name is Jessica Meissner, and what follows is our email […]
Posted in Economics, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged access to capital, Alternative Energy, BALLE, BEC, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, co-ops, collaboration, cooperation, cooperatives, corporatocracy, Costa Rica, Dug Song, economic anthropology, Jessica Meissner, local procurement, Maker Works, Organic Valley, Paul Saginaw, purchasing, sharing assets, Small and Mighty, small business, sustainably, The Shed, Tom Root, triple bottom line, underemployment, unemployment, University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Wisconsin, workforce development |
Wednesday night, on a tip from our tech entrepreneur friend Dug Song (who, by the way, just launched a new blog on Ann Arbor Startups), I went to hear a venture capitalist from Boulder, Colorado speak at the University of Michigan Business School. Professor David Brophy, the man behind Michigan’s annual Growth Capital Symposium, had […]
Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Locally Owned Business, Michigan, Observations, Sustainability | Also tagged Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Startups, Because having a boss sucks, Boston, Boulder, Colorado, David Brophy, Denver, Department of Energy, Dug Song, Entrepreneurs Unplugged, Foundry Group, Growth Capital Symposium, hippy college town, IT, Jason Mendelson, Kleiner Perkins, mentorship, Microsoft, New Tech Meetup, Silicon Flatirons, Silicon Valley, software, Startup Weekend, TechStars, toxic environment, University of Colorado at Boulder |
By Mark | February 22, 2009
I’m not a huge fan of Thomas Friedman’s, but I think that his op-ed piece in today’s New York Times raises an interesting question… If our objective is to create new jobs, are our billions better invested with General Motors, a company that is already asking for more money after being bailed out last month, […]
