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Future Midwest aims to create Midwestern SXSW
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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Organizers of FutureMidwest have aspirations of creating a SXSW
-type
(South by Southwest) tech conference in the Midwest that will draw Metro Detroit's tech community closer and offer $100,000 in prize money to a local start-up.
"There is so much start-up potential here," says Adrian Pittman, who co-founded
FutureMidwest
in 2009 with Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson in 2009 to cater to tech and digital media enthusiasts. "There are so many start-ups here, and many of them are better than we realize."
This year's conference, to be held in Detroit's Eastern Market on April 28 and 29, will be geared toward entrepreneurs, marketers, communication professionals, techies, and students from across the Midwest. It will also feature the Funded by Night business plan contest with a winner-take-all $100,000 in prize money.
Funded by Night
will feature 25 start-ups pitching their products and visions to potential investors. At stake is a $100,000 convertible note from two local venture capital firms, downtown Detroit-based
Detroit Venture Partners
and Southfield-based
Ludlow Ventures
. The organizers hope the conference and competition will help create more synergies with start-ups in both Metro Detroit and the Midwest.
"No city is an island and no region is an island," Pittman says. "We share an ecosystem in several states and industries. We need to be thinking globally."
Tickets for both events are $250. Tickets for Funded by Night and the FutureMidwest evening networking event on April 28 are $25 for professionals and $10 for students. For information on FutureMidwest, click
here
. For information on Funded by Night, click
here
.
Source: Adrian Pittman, co-founder of FutureMidwest
Writer: Jon Zemke
Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at
SEMichiganStartup.com
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