Archives

Detroit Free Press talks NEIdeas People’s Choice

The NEIdeas entrepreneurial contest, which recently award 30 grants of $10,000 each to existing small businesses in Detroit, is now asking the public to vote on which other firms should receive two Read more...

Need small-business aid? Many programs can help

  Entrepreneurial award contests such as NEIdeas, Hatch Detroit, and Accelerate Michigan are funneling needed cash to small ventures. The NEIdeas grants that celebrate existing small Read more...

Model D highlights Detroit’s co-working spaces

Go into a coffee shop almost anywhere in America and you're likely to find most of its patrons working at their laptops. The coffee shop has become a secondary or even primary office for many in Read more...

Cash for Business Ideas From New Economy Initiative Challenge

More than 135 people, representing local businesses, communities, and city government, packed the Motor City Java & Tea House on the city’s far west side on Wednesday, April 16, for the Read more...

NEIdeas contest draws close to 600 entries from Detroit small businesses

Nearly 600 small businesses in Detroit, many with just one or two employees, entered to win $10,000 or $100,000 grants in the NEIdeas competition to help the city’s smallest employers grow. New Read more...

At last, help for survivors

Rachel Lutz has a word for them: Been-ups. These companies are the ones already here silently toiling, unremembered and uncelebrated, watching as the resources, support and capital focus on Read more...