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Refugee 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 contest was Baobob Fare. Baobob Fare idea is a a restaurant, market and juice bar that plans to offer  prepared menu items, groceries, juices and other retail products unique to East Africa. The people behind the idea are a married refugee couple from Burundi, Nadia Nijimbere and Hamissi Mamba...

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Hatch 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 contest where the winner will receive $50,000 from Comerica Bank and more than $200,000 in pro bono support from Hatch Detroit and its partners. It must be a brick and mortar business that is or will be located in Detroit, Highland Park or Hamtramck. But in order for a winner to be chosen, there need...

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PODCAST: A Real Conversation About Entrepreneurship In Detroit With Ned Staebler, CEO Of Techtown

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PODCAST: The Smell Of Detroit Success With Kevin And Jane Of Sfumato Fragrances

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Detroit Area Entrepreneur Puts Your Makeup In Easy Reach And Keeps Plastic Out Of Landfills

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 uniforms for casinos. That was her profession before she started her company, Make-Cup. She spent days in planes, trains and automobiles and found one of her biggest issues was how to carry her cosmetics. Always wanting to look her best when meeting customers, she says she “had to freshen my make...

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Meet The 10 Businesses Looking For Your Vote To Win $50,000 Through Hatch Detroit

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 of Hamtramck or Highland Park within the next year. This year’s class is no different – but the voting window is short. The primary voting period, from Aug 12-18, to determine the four finalists who will compete to win $50,000 from Comerica Bank and more than $200,000 in pro bono services from H...

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What 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 community to see where we as an organization could be more collaborative and supportive. Trips to places like TechTown, Bamboo Detroit, Ponyride, and Build Institute have taken me to the connecting points to further one goal: Understanding what the Detroit Regional Chamber and the larger business...

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Detroit 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 America National Pitch Competition. The three startups competed in a Dream Big America round before the Feb. 27 episode in which they pitched their businesses. Each business won its respective round. During the Finals Round, a spokesperson for each startup gave a two-minute pitch of their company’s con...

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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, which opened on June 19, fills the need for a bike shop in Southwest Detroit. Six years ago Urban Neighborhood Initiatives (UNI) connected a young person who wanted to learn about bikes with a community member who volunteered to teach the skills. The program grew into a six week earn-a-bike progr...