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About Alex Southern

Alex Southern is a Detroit based Marketing Executive with Midcoast, a leading 3D Studio. Formerly, he served as Associate Editor of DBusiness, a leading business publication, where he reported on emerging Detroit startups and technology-based companies.

Start Garden Brings Microfunding to Grand Rapids

April 26, 2012

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Start Garden is a $15,000,000 fund to ‘turn ideas into actions’, and is the next evolution of Grand Rapids’ 5×5 Night - brought to you by Rick DeVos and execs from ArtPrize and (former) 5×5 Night members. The executed model, however, resembles 5×5 night on steroids: an accelerator model where the group promises to invest $5k into two new [...]

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Startup to Watch: Picket Report

April 25, 2012

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Picket Report is a website that aims to help homebuyers pinpoint their perfect neighborhood. Today they announced the launch of their Detroit-based web business. Picket Report provides a free and easy to use map-based website that saves homebuyers time and energy by aggregating difficult to find community information and offering in-depth analysis of resident lifestyles, [...]

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