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Top Ann Arbor Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021

StartupNation

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Duo has a culture centered around inclusion and belonging. Duo has also created a great place to work.

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We hosted a Civic App Challenge powered by AT&T in the coworking space I ran, and invited the Mayor’s office and Economic Development offices (since the app would be enhancing the lives of the city residents). She shared an experience she had with this in Buffalo. “We We developed and deployed a broad reaching awareness campaign.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. The scarcity mindset holds us all back. Carina Boston Pinales. Ellen Bateman. Heather Metcalf.