Entrepreneurship

Coverage of those starting up businesses and community resources to help them thrive.

Michael Forsyth at Detroit City Distillery

Join Model D for a High Growth Happy Hour talk at Detroit City Distillery

This installment features the entrepreneurs behind two of Detroit's fastest-growing craft beverage companies.

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Gathering at Detroit Sip for an installment of Speakeasy
Detroit Sip in Live6 to celebrate long-awaited opening

On Saturday, Nov. 18, Detroit Sip will celebrate its grand opening after a lengthy saga of trying to open its doors.

Rendering of Detroit Parent Collective
Co-working space, co-op pre-school, and childcare: Detroit Parent Collective opens in NW Detroit

Detroit Parent Collective recently celebrated its grand opening in the Live6 district, in a building located across from Marygrove College.

Abess Makki, founder of CityInsight
Thanks to a 24-year-old grad student, paying your water bill in Detroit has never been easier

A new portal and app has been created for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department so that customers can access and pay their bills online, with mobile devices, and even through Amazon's Alexa.

The partners of Century Partners (left to right: David Alade, Kim Dowdell, Andrew Colom)
Neighborhood-focused real estate firm Century Partners to be honored at TechTown awards

What's more remarkable than the speed with which Century Partners has achieved its success is the manner in which they've achieved it—though a holistic approach to neighborhood development.

Out of the incubator: First-time entrepreneur rolls out on demand in-home health care app

A Detroit-based company has developed a smart phone app that serves as an online marketplace for on demand respite care.

Jackie Zimmerman
Voices: Girls With Guts founder on choosing her health over her nonprofit

In the last installment of our series on failure, Jackie Zimmerman thought she had overcome her chronic illness and started the nonprofit of her dreams. But she only really got healthy after stepping down as executive director.

Baobab Fare receives $50K Hatch Detroit check
East African refugees win $50K Hatch Detroit grand prize, will open restaurant

Baobab Fare will use the $50K to create open a restaurant offering a taste of their old home, Burundi, in their new one, Detroit. It's slated for a summer 2018 opening.

Accelerate Michigan winners
Accelerate Michigan pitch competition once again to award over $1M in prizes

The competition is seeking applicants from "high-growth, high-tech," early stage Michigan companies. The grand prize winner receives $500,000.

An entrepreneur delivers a pitch at the Spark the Fire Final GES+ Pitch Competition
Grand Circus to host pitch competition for minority-led startups

Taking place on September 7 at Grand Circus Detroit, this pitch competition will give minority-led businesses the chance to sell their businesses to inventors for funding and in-kind services.

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