Registration is officially open for the 2022 Northern Michigan Startup Week, scheduled for May 9-15. This week of events is organized collaboratively by a variety of “local startup and tech ecosystem leaders,” and will celebrate entrepreneurship and innovation in Traverse City through a variety of panels, pitch competitions, informational sessions, and more. Most Northern Michigan Startup Week events are free and open to the public.
Detroit
Crain’s Detroit Business: Retail incubator Hatch to become part of TechTown Detroit
Two Detroit organizations with a focus on further catalyzing small business development efforts in the area are joining forces. Hatch Detroit, a retail and restaurant incubator initiative, will now be housed within TechTown Detroit, a Midtown neighborhood-based small business support organization affiliated with Wayne State University, according to a news release.
Forbes: Research Finds Conventional Accelerators Aren’t Good Fit For Social Entrepreneurs
Are startup accelerators useful for social enterprises, especially those focused on reviving struggling urban areas and economic development? Suntae Kim, assistant professor of management and organization at Boston College, spent eight years researching two accelerators in Detroit to find out, working much of that time with Anna Kim, assistant professor in management for sustainability at McGill University.
M Health Lab: Hospital-affiliated doctors prescribe fewer antibiotics through telehealth than third-party physicians
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for telemedicine boomed – increasing 63-fold among Medicare users alone from approximately 840,000 telehealth visits in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020.
Verizon Small Business Digital Ready: Tailored to Your Needs Anytime, Anywhere
Grand Rapids Area Black Businesses leader Jamiel Robinson talked with StartupNation CEO Jeff Sloan about how the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program helps people move forward in their entrepreneurial journey.
How VSBDR can help: Some of the needs, especially when it comes to small businesses on the technical assistance side, is help with financial statements. So we know that with the pandemic a lot of businesses, when it came to applying for assistance, whether that was relief grants or other kinds of relief loans, a lot of that required a lot of financial documents. Especially when we talk about small businesses of color, it didn’t necessarily have all of those documents. And so they missed out on a lot of the relief funding because they didn’t necessarily have all the paperwork in order.
Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You (with Verizon’s Director of Community Engagement, Brianna Ellison)
What work is Verizon doing in the Detroit/Michigan community to help small businesses?
Verizon has actively partnered with Michigan small businesses. We are members of numerous chambers of commerce and associations from across the state that work with small businesses (such as the Detroit Regional Chamber, Grand Rapids Chamber, Dearborn Chamber, The Right Place, MI Chamber, Automation Alley, Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance, MI Business Incubator Assoc.). Verizon participates in a number of thought leadership events with these organizations to share expertise and resources with their membership.
Detroit News: Stellantis mines tech industry for software talent
Undergoing a historic transformation, access to global opportunities and a love for iconic vehicles rank among the reasons workers are leaving traditional technology titans of video game makers and microchip designers for a future with a legacy automaker.
SecondWaveMedia: Welcome to Rural Innovation eXchange!
I made the move to rural Michigan four years ago. The move was not to escape urban life, but to immerse myself in Michigan’s flourishing wine industry. Almost as soon as I began pouring wine in a tasting room on the Leelanau Peninsula, I discovered innovations occurring across the industry, from southwest Michigan to the Traverse Wine Coast to Petoskey. Winery owners and winemakers are tapping new technologies and innovations to harvest their grapes, bottle their wine and improve their craft.
Government Technology: Advocates Call for Funding for Michigan Broadband Office
A group of rural Michigan advocates are urging state lawmakers to fund and staff the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer created the office in June 2021 with the aim of expanding broadband internet access to more residents. But the office as yet has no budget and therefore no fulltime staff.
Detroit News: RMC raises $1.35M for local charities; 82,500 more Detroit homes have internet access
The 2021 Rocket Mortgage Classic raised more than $1.35 million for local charities, the title sponsor of Detroit’s PGA Tour stop announced Thursday morning.
Of that total, $805,000 was designated for the tournament’s Changing the Course initiative, which aims to end Detroit’s digital divided by 2025. When the initiative launched in 2020, about 40% of Detroit households had access to the internet; today, with the help of Changing the Course and the federal Affordable Connectivity Program, that number is 67.5%.
