May 27, 2023
In praise of the all-too-rare neighborhood business
The nicest surprise of the spring so far for me has been the opening of a new coffee shop down...
entrepreneurialism
July 21, 2018
The Happy Hour is back with special guest Kevin Allison of Risk! podcast
Warning: Episode contains salty language (F-bombs) and the word “penises” 2X. Friends, we’re back! After a brief hiatus, the Daily...
January 7, 2018
PODCAST: Clearing the smoke from Michigan’s fast-changing medical marijuana industry
There have been a lot of changes recently in Michigan’s nearly decade-old medical marijuana industry. The Legislature passed new laws...
August 1, 2017
PODCAST: Inside plans for a new entrepreneurism-focused charter school in Detroit
Drew Schantz is one of those 20-something-year-olds who make you feel like a total slacker. We caught up with him...
July 11, 2017
PODCAST: Talking entrepreneurship and failure in Detroit with TechTown CEO Ned Staebler
This week’s episode of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast takes us to the headquarters of TechTown, where we sat...
May 7, 2016
Bike share contract adds to ‘pretty damn fast’ growth for Detroit Bikes
Homegrown bicycle maker Detroit Bikes LLC hopes to be able to soon turn its first profit in the wake of...
April 15, 2016
9 things to know about the (very urbanist) future of Detroit’s Eastern Market
Eastern Market already occupies near-mythic status in the fabric of Detroit’s civic life. But if you want to ponder some...
November 4, 2015
Cinema Detroit extends its crowdfunding drive but lowers fundraising goal
Last week I wrote about independent film theater Cinema Detroit and its attempts to crowdfund $50,000 for new digital decryption...
October 28, 2015
Cinema Detroit has new digs, but needs new digital equipment
The good news about Cinema Detroit: The only remaining seven-day-a-week movie theater in Detroit’s core has a much-improved, more conventional...
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