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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 ideas each week. One of the aforementioned ideas will be selected by the internal team at Start Garden, while the other will be crowd-sourced via popular vote on their website. Each $5,000 idea has about two months to do something interesting. Then, the startups give in person updates at...

    Start Garden Brings Microfunding to Grand Rapids

    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 ideas each week. One of the aforementioned ideas will be selected by the internal team at Start Garden, while the other will be crowd-sourced via popular vote on their website. Each $5,000 idea has about two months to do something interesting. Then, the startups give in person updates at...

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