Coordination/Collaboration

All Things Detroit organizer Jennyfer Crawford.

Detroit entrepreneur brings 20 small business pop-ups to Briarwood Mall

Jennyfer Crawford's "All Things Detroit" events have completely filled up Eastern Market. Now she's looking to expose small Detroit-area businesses to new markets.

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Kickball at the Summer Playground Program
Free neighborhood summer camps engage underprivileged Ypsi-area kids

This year more than 150 kids registered for the Summer Playground Program, which provides two weeks of educational and recreational activities at three different playgrounds.

The Duo Mobile app and single sign-in screen used by businesses and their employees.
Duo Security partners with VMware to improve cybersecurity for employees working remotely

Employees using their own laptops and tablets can be a big security headache for IT departments. Duo's partnership with VMware aims to change that.

Clinc cofounder Jason Mars
Military members can now converse with their bank accounts, thanks to Ann Arbor company

Ann Arbor-based Clinc recently began a 90-day pilot program of its AI banking assistant for the United Services Automobile Association.

Alexa Dietz.
Ypsi artist brings Ann Arbor and Ypsi businesses, artists together for Ozone House benefit

The event will be one of the first for the newly opened Electric Eye Cafe just north of downtown Ann Arbor. 

Owners Paul Balcom and Eli Morrissey at The Rocket Candy & Novelties
Downtown Ypsi businesses create community of collaboration

Numerous downtown Ypsi business owners are working together to help new businesses get started, as well as doing what they can to support and promote existing businesses.

Melvin Parson at We The People Growers Association gardens
Ypsi Township farmer plants seeds of change for formerly incarcerated residents

Melvin Parson spent 13 years of his life incarcerated on and off. Now he's the proprietor of a young farm that supplies numerous Ypsi and Ann Arbor restaurants, and he recently hired his first employee returning home from prison.

Attendees at the first entrepreneur mixer at Friends Closet on March 30.
Ypsi business owners team up to host networking events for fellow entrepreneurs

Organizers say their intention is to "bridge the gap" between existing business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs, and "to bring everyone together in Ypsilanti."

North American Tech Tour founder Paul Singh on the steps of his Airstream trailer.
North American Tech Tour to bring investors, entrepreneurship events to Ann Arbor in August

Investors, entrepreneurs, and bloggers Paul Singh and Dana Duncan are bringing their national tour to town as part of their commitment to working with startups in the American heartland.

An employee uses Google Glass with EyeSucceed technology.
Ann Arbor’s EyeSucceed partners with Google Glass on food industry application

After its beleaguered launch in 2013, Google Glass has quietly staged a comeback. An Ann Arbor company is leveraging Glass technology to train food employees.

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