Meet Southwest Rides: A Neighborhood Bike Shop With a Community Mission
Sometimes businesses in Detroit come from other places. Some are grown in start-up incubators, some pop up spontaneously, and others grow organically and fill a need in the community. Southwest Rides,...
View ArticleDetroit Startup In Final Round of “Dream Big America”
Sometimes, it’s the simple things. Two Michigan startup businesses, one from Grand Rapids and one from Detroit, are two of the three finalists in the February Championship Round of the Dream Big...
View ArticleWhat Do Entrepreneurs Want From (The Rest Of) The Business Community?
In the year since I started my gig at the Detroit Regional Chamber I’ve been working to answer that question; diving into Detroit’s vast, sometimes fragmented, and always exciting entrepreneurial...
View ArticleMeet The 10 Businesses Looking For Your Vote To Win $50,000 Through Hatch...
Hatch Detroit is one of Detroit’s most anticipated entrepreneurship competitions because the public has a huge say in which businesses will get a $50,000 and open in the City of Detroit or the enclaves...
View ArticleDetroit Area Entrepreneur Puts Your Makeup In Easy Reach And Keeps Plastic...
You’ve heard the phrase “my cup runneth over.” Well the same can be said for most make-up zipper pouches. It’s a dilemma Christina Bellas decided to fix as she travelled around the Midwest designing...
View ArticlePODCAST: The Smell Of Detroit Success With Kevin And Jane Of Sfumato Fragrances
Detroit’s a city where locally made products can do really well and become a thing. One of those products is Sfumato Fragrances, created by the Corktown-based husband and wife duo of Kevin Peterson...
View ArticlePODCAST: A Real Conversation About Entrepreneurship In Detroit With Ned...
Ned Staebler is the kind of guy who will tell it to you how it sees it and has experience in the trenches to back it up. In this episode of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast, Sven Gustafson met up...
View ArticleHatch Detroit Reveals 2017 Semi-Finalists For $50,000 Business Competition
On Thursday night, ten semi-finalists were announced for the annual Hatch Detroit Contest out of more than 160 applications that were received. If you’re not familiar, Hatch Detroit is an annual...
View ArticleRefugee Couple Wins $50k To Start Business In Detroit
On the rooftop of one of Detroit’s swankiest loft buildings – the space the party was thrown in currently is listing for $1.4 million – Hatch Detroit announced that the winner of their seventh annual...
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