Inc. staff writer chooses Detroit over Silicon Valley
It’s nice to see Detroit and Silicon Valley used in the same sentence. It seems to happening a lot more of late, thanks to goings-on at the Madison Building in particular.
An excerpt from Inc.:
When tech entrepreneur Bob Marsh is on the phone with a prospective client and they ask him where LevelEleven is headquartered, he doesn’t hesitate to declare: “Detroit.”
“You can hear the smile in their voice on the phone,” he says, “They say, ‘Wow. It’s so cool to hear that.'”
We think it’s cool, too. Now let’s fill up two or three more downtown towers with techie entrepreneurial nerds and make sure the scene continues to grow.
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