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Detroit

5 Reasons to Start a Business in Detroit

Despite the decline of its vital auto industry, Detroit aims to become a more diversified, sustainable economy for the 21st century. Here are five reasons why it will succeed.

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The 'Teach for America' for Entrepreneurs?

Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies.

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7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation

Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and small. Here's how you can too.

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How an Airport Works

An inside look at the technology and businesses that operate behind the scenes at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

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Joe McClure, Founder of McClure's Pickles

Joe McClure spent his childhood in Detroit buying cucumbers and dill at farmers markets. Now, he pickles professionally.

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Recent Articles about Detroit

Innovation Lessons, Imported From Detroit

Author and Detroit native Josh Linkner shares poignant lessons in spurring change from the unfinished story of Motor City's slump and comeback.  Read more

All Hail These Cabbies

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: M...  Read more

Managing a Business and a Baby

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: <...  Read more

Business for Sale: An Indiana Machine Shop

An independent machine shop may be a great buy for someone with industry experience  Read more

Credit Card Cuts and the Rise of Local Currency

Card providers slash limits. The WSJ has some disturbing examples of how cr...  Read more

Playfish Sells Out and A Plan to Save Detroit

Playfish sells to EA for $275 million . So it turns out that there's a lot of money in virtual goods. Playfish, a London company that makes Facebook...  Read more

Older Workers, New Careers

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Super Bowl Fumble?

How does $302 million sound? That’s what the City of Detroit expects Super Bowl XL will bring to town, through hotel and restaurant spending, increa...  Read more

NBA Owner Announces Plans for Entrepreneurship "Boot Camp"

Bizdom U will offer a full-time, two-year program for aspiring young entrepreneurs.  Read more

Are Things Happening in Detroit?

Kwame Kilpatrick, the optimistic mayor of Detroit and winner of this year's ICIC Mayoral Leadership Award, believes the Motor City is becoming a hotbed of en...  Read more

Split Cities: A Travel Secret for Maximum Savings

Save as much as 70% and avoid the financial trauma of one airline's route monopoly by splitting your ticketing in half and buying two tickets: one to an i...  Read more

...But Not About the Big Three Automakers

The major US car makers demand a 10% reduction in health-care costs from providers.  Read more

7 Tips on Boosting Post-Holiday Retail Sales

Small business owners give advice on how to keep sales up after the holiday buying wave has passed.  Read more

Driving A Hard Bargain

DOING BUSINESS WITH BIG BUSINESS ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS IT USED TO BE. BUT THE PAYOFFS ARE STILL ENORMOUS.  Read more

No Boom For The Recyclers

For the first time in anyone's memory, bad economic times haven't meant boom times for the automotive aftermarket. Historically, sales of used car parts h...  Read more

Waging War On Business Failures

By negotiating new credit terms with bankers and suppliers a Michigan consulting firm helps ailing companies regain their health.  Read more

Cbeyond To Offer Services in Detroit

Cbeyond (NASDAQ:CBEY), provider of IP-based managed services to small businesses, has expanded its client base to Detroit. Cbeyond will provide sma...  Read more

Cities and Oil Prices: The Winners and The Losers

For most places, it’s hard to tell what the long-term effect of the high cost of energy might be. But there are some fairly safe bets.  Read more

Detroit's New Innovation Engine

Patent (office) pending. Plus, the return of start-up valuation backlash just as a social-media company plans a $500 million IPO.  Read more

Detroit Gets Tech Start-up "Magic"

File this under "why I still love Magic Johnson." Legendary NBA star for the Lakers and—what's more germaine to this posting—Michigan State al...  Read more

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read more

Sign Of The Times

You think crime doesn't pay? Talk to Michael Aichenbaum. Crime has done wonders for his young company, Colonial Lamplighters Inc., which sells electric ...  Read more

A Golden Alternative

Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ...  Read more

Clusters

Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies or institutions that manufacture products or deliver services to a particular field or ...  Read more

10 Greatest Salespeople of All Time

As a rule, salespeople are keen on measuring themselves against their peers. So who are the best of the best? Here are ten closers who helped invent (and rei...  View slideshow

Just In Time;

A LOT OF TRENDY MANAGEment philosophies come and go with little effect. But Dan Kiurski credits Just in Time, the Japanese manufacturing concept, with re...  Read more

Chris Paine on Revving Up the Auto Industry

The director of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Revenge of the Electric Car talks about the changing face of car manufacturing and salesâ€...  Read more

Hot Zones

A look at the best cities in America for starting and growing a business. Plus: CEOs discuss their reasons for locating their business where they did.  Read more

Start-up Covets Spokes of Northwest's Hub

Start-up airline Pro Air Inc. hopes to win over customers from Northwest Airlines with lower airfares, higher-quality service, and a focus on business travel...  Read more

Attention Armchair App Developers

Hey, armchair app schemers. There's plenty of help for bringing your idea to iPhone screens everywhere, the Los Angeles Times Read more

Spell It Out

Companies must provide full descriptions of benefits to employees in order to remain tax exempt under Section 89k.  Read more

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read more

Editor's Letter: A Look Behind the Scenes

A look at the work of photographer Andrew Moore  Read more

The 2009 Inc. 500: The Top 10 Black-Run Companies

These entrepreneurs were born everywhere from Haiti to Oklahoma but they share a common African ancestry and a willingness to tackle big challenges.  View slideshow

Is Your Document Storage Cost-effective?

Cost effective document and magnetic-media pickup-and-retriever services.  Read more

The Inner City 100 Profiles: 11-20

NO. 11 VisionIT Detroit Technology staffing Read more

Media, Mid-Perm

Hair salons: hot media market?  Read more

Agenda 6/06

The first day of summer is June 21. May we suggest blending business with some fun in the sun?  Read more