Entrepreneurship :
Videos
Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Candy and Detroit rock n' roll - two great tastes that taste great together! Royal Oak's Bellyache Candy Company is taking the web by storm, pushing Goo Goo Clusters, Pop Rocks and Charleston Chews along with CDs, vinyl LPs and 7-inch singles from bands like The Amino Acids, The Hentchman, and Gore Gore Girls. Can you say, "Yummy"?
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Keith Jefferies
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Spur Studios is yet another example of Ypsilanti's DIY philosophy of
collective innovation and artistic community building. Attracting a
confederation of artists, designers, and musicians, James
Marks of VG Kids has turned an empty building into a successful hive of
inspiration and creativity.
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Keith Jefferies
Thursday, October 28, 2010
From $50 desk rentals to million dollar start-ups,
Tech Brewery is a
coworking space that caters to Ann Arbor's tech community with an eye
toward entrepreneurship. Professional collaborations, tech meet-ups and
beer-fueled social gatherings are all part of the mix in this innovative
workspace.
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Quick, we say: Frankfurters, men's fashion, and locally made mustard. What's the first thing that comes to mind? Should be Charley Marcuse. A true Metro Detroit original, this singing hotdog vendor at Tiger Stadium (and budding entrepreneur) embodies the indomitably funky spirit of our region. The mustard's tasty too!
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Move over Chihuly, Epiphany Studios is out to eat your lunch. Okay, not really, but this Pontiac-based glass studio produces some incredible work, employing techniques developed and mastered by Italian glass blowers over hundreds of years.
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Keith Jefferies
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Workantile Exchange is more than just a work space. It's a co-working
community, filled with entrepreneurs, freelancers and creatives looking
for a place to exchange ideas, insight and inspiration. A home office
away from home, it has all the advantages of the traditional work place
with none of the baggage.
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Government-funded business incubators can't be all things to all people. Sometimes you have to roll up your sleeves and fill the niche no one wants to scratch. Meet Andy Didorosi, who wants to turn Ferndale's Paper Street Motors building into a creative hive for small businesses.
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Mead, it's not just for renaissance fest geeks anymore. Proof? B. Nektar in hipper-than-thou Ferndale, where honey, apples and all sorts of fermentable goodness are crafted into a damn fine brew.
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Keith Jefferies
Thursday, October 22, 2009
It's all about playing nice together.
Concentrate has reported on
everything from food co-ops, to co-living communities to co-working facilities.
It only seems fair to throw a little love to the A2Mech Shop, a shared technical
space for entrepreneurial engineers and innovative mech heads.
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Keith Jefferies
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Ann Arbor's B2B Party Bus is everything sustainable new urbanist hipsters ever dreamed
of: An entrepreneurial enterprise that runs small scale private transit on
secondhand cooking oil in order to transport young party-goers around downtown.
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Keith Jefferies
Thursday, October 08, 2009
From co-founder Collin Rich's kitchen table to the offices of U-M's Tech
Transfer office to shipping high tech cytometers to labs all over the world,
Accuri Cytometers is the model for Ann Arbor startup know-how.
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Buy local doesn't just mean food, dontcha know. Naka boutique in Ferndale features hand-crafted clothing, soaps and gifts from Metro Detroit creatives and designers. And owner Kelly Pettibone Lapointe doesn't just
sell local, she moved back from New York City to
be local.
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Norm Silk and Dale Morgan are all about aesthetics. Whether it's the explosion of flowers that fill their Birmingham boutique or the restoration of the only home in Detroit to be designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Take a look inside TechTown, a home to
technology start-ups in Detroit. Video producer Tom Hendrickson offers a guided tour.
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Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, January 04, 2007
EPrize has been part of what founder and CEO Josh Linkner calls a "reverse brain drain," attracting employees from the coasts to work at the Internet promotion agency. Watch their story here.
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