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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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Twitter Opens Downtown Detroit Office in Madison Building

April 4, 2012

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Twitter announced today it is opening an office in downtown Detroit, with the company’s first Michigan location based in the M@dison (Madison) Building, owned by Rock Ventures LLC, the umbrella entity that represents Dan Gilbert’s portfolio of companies, investments and real estate. Based in San Francisco, Twitter is a real-time information network that connects people [...]

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