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New Investment Opportunity Lures Startups To Detroit

When most startups relocate for investments, they traditionally head west to Silicon Valley. Thanks to a renaissance in midwest venture capital, east coast startups like Quikkly are moving westward, only to plant their stake in the ground far before hitting the west coast.

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CEO Sundays: How To Land A ‘Startup 180’

Many “want-to-be” entrepreneurs find themselves riding down a confined vertical. They push along on a never ending quest to define “the problem” their product solves. In order to develop a.

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Ubooly: iPhone Sock Puppet Plays Games With Kids

A Boulder-based startup will soon ship a cuddly stuffed animal built to hold an iPhone or iPod, with the display serving as the creature’s face and a custom app that interacts and plays games with young children.

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HealPay: Making Debt Collection A Little Less Miserable

The system, the co-founder said, is “designed to make it easier for consumers to pay their bills.” If all goes well, more people choose to (and are able to) pay up.

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Marxent Labs Wants To See Augmented Reality Everywhere

Detroit-based Marxent Labs is a magician’s workshop of visual trickery, where they’ll create a custom app that bridges the gap between software and the real world.

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UpTo: The Future Is Unwritten (But Let’s Plan Ahead, Okay?)

Foursquare and Twitter are well and good, according to Schwartz, but without planning ahead, meetup opportunities will necessarily be limited, unless you’re checking your phone all the time — another faux pas in some circles.

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The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund Invests $600,000 In Three Tech Startups

The Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund recently announced that it has invested $600,000 in three tech startups: Larky, Flocktag, and FreeStride Therapeutics.

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BlackGirlsCode Raises $21,000 To Fund Summer Of Code Program In Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and More

Much ado is made about changing the ratio of women to men in computer science programs, but BlackGirlsCode is an organization that is taking the initiative one step further.

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Years In The Restaurant Biz Inspired Tabling System OnDeq

Grabowski, who jokingly compared his experience in the restaurant industry to the bawdy comedy film Waiting, says it was his own term of service in food that set the standards he wants OnDeq to uphold.

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Fetchnotes Grows To 18,000 Users With Stream Of Steady Updates

Fetchnotes, the most simple mobile note taking app around, has gone through some considerable changes since we last covered it in May, and with a slew of new features, it’s even easier to make your straightforward notes work for you.

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