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How Is Your Company Weathering the Economic Shift? Send Us Your Tips.
Startups with a few years under their belt based in the Midwest might have an easier time than new startups (pictured above a May Mobility…
Guest Post: Best Cities for Digital Nomads
This is a guest post from Dean Burgess, who writes about business and entrepreneurship at Excitepreneur.net. The views mentioned here do not…
How inflation is impacting tech talent and businesses' plans for hiring
With consumer sentiment continuing a downward trend, falling 14.4% in June according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers…
Pocketnest Finds Employee Benefits Application for SaaS Financial Wellness Platform
Pocketnest founder Jessica Willis. Formerly Ann Arbor-based fintech startup Pocketnest, now headquartered in Detroit, has announced recently…
Where To Find Mentorship For Your Michigan Startup
Winners of a TechTown Detroit pitch event. This is a guest post from Civionics CEO and former TechTown Detroit mentor Gerry Roston. If you…
What The Future Holds for Healthcare Startups
a2tech360 week in Ann Arbor continues, with What The Future Holds today to predict the trajectories of tech-related industries that have a…
Security Startup Censys Beats Tech Industry Benchmarks for Women's Equality
Happy Women's Equality Day. In honor of this event, we are happy to announce that Ann Arbor security startup Censys has surpassed tech…
E-Commerce Adoption Explodes, Eoxs Offers 1-Day Online Marketplace Solutions
Eoxs e-commerce allows users to plug their products, inventory, pricing, logo, and domain into an e-commerce solution for quick online sales…
Why Women Leave STEM with Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna & Colleagues
2020 Tribeca Film Festival film Picture a Scientist, which examines harassment of women in STEM and the cultural issues that drive attrition…
How To Address Professional Burnout with Sensei Nicklaus Suino
Sensei Suino of JMAC in Ann Arbor The tech industry is an energizing space to work, but even the most put-upon engineer needs to rest…
Ann Arbor Fintech Startup Pocketnest Continue Rapid Growth
Jessica Willis of Ann Arbor's Pocketnest has encouraging words for other founders working through hard times. Despite a challenging year, a…
2 Tech Companies' Approaches To Creating New Diversity Programs
ITHAKA, the parent company of popular academic research site JSTOR among other properties, is a proponent of diversity and inclusion through…
The Defense Industry Adopts Lean Startup Strategies
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
TechTalk 2020: Lessons From Entrepreneurship In Changing Times
Susan Wagner of KLA Corporation spoke up front at this year's TechTalk out of Ann Arbor on the importance of diversity and inclusion…
The Applied AI Conference in Ann Arbor Highlights Trends in Artificial Intelligence
A2.AI Conference Highlights Trends in Applied AI This week's a2tech360 conference has continued the newer Applied AI conference, which…
What Would It Take For Ann Arbor To Be The Next Biotech Hub?
This article is a guest post from Cameron McCausland. Cameron is a partner in and currently leads the overall strategy and asset management…
Seraph: How A Pathogen-Identifying Startup Navigates a Pandemic
Launching a biotech startup is one of the most complex processes in new business. So what happens when a startup working on technology to…
What Makes Work From Home Work?
Heidi Hagle, Stefanini VP of People and Culture, works from her home office. Companies everywhere are looking for best practices and tech…
Washtenaw Community College Offers Free Business Planning Support
How To Start A Small Business in Michigan... During Shutdown So you’re laid off, or already thinking of starting a new company, but now it…
Behind The Scenes of Midwest Tech During COVID-19
An event at 20 Fathoms in Traverse City, Michigan, a growing coworking and incubator space for startups in northern Michigan. Incubator…
COVID-19 Response The Startup Way: First Aid for Entrepreneurs
This is a guest post from ITHAKA Scrum Master Tom Bellinson, whose work has focused on scrum and project management for a variety of…
Mentors of MI Tech: Melanie De Vries Supports Tech Startups via Desai Accelerator & The SBDC
Desai Venture Accelerator is located in the Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor on the University of Michigan Campus. Many Michigan small…
Well On Your Way: How Business & Wellness Coaches Support Startup Founders Through Hard Times
Business Coaching vs. Wellness Coaching For Tech Founders If you're a tech founder or a tech worker who has navigated a tough set of…
How To Know If An Incubator or Accelerator Program Is Right For Your Startup
Diane Bouis of the University of Michigan Office of TechTransfer connects startups at U of M with the tech community in Ann Arbor. Startup…
ITHAKA's Tom Bellinson Outlines The Blameless Postmortem
This is a guest post from ITHAKA Scrum Master Tom Bellinson, whose work has focused on scrum and project management for a variety of…
Red Hat's Chris Short on Redirecting A War Vet's Energy To Lifelong Learning & Technical Leadership
It's a common story in startup culture: people comfortable with the risks of starting a new business often have a background in which they…
Human Element, of Top 20 Fastest Growing Companies in Michigan, Creates The Kind of Culture They Want To Stay In
Human Element's offices are located at the west end of the Broadway bridge in north Kerrytown, which makes the parking tricky but the…
Michigan Tech Podcasts: Dave Haviland of Phimation Strategy Hosts SPARK.Grow
Dave Haviland of Phimation Strategy Group and host of the new SPARK.Grow executive podcast out of Ann Arbor works with second-stage tech…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: ApprenTek Founder Tim Marsh on Recruiting Young Talent
On the day we met him, local IT security tech consultant Tim Marsh was on the phone dealing with a data breach for Equifax. He's a…
eLab Brings VC Funding to Ann Arbor AI and Machine Learning Startups
eLab Venture Capital Managing Director Doug Neal poses in front of the A2 Startup Garage on Liberty, where he meets with colleagues from Ann…
Help OSHKI Clean Up The Great Lakes Plastic Pollution To Create Upcycled Gear
Oshki Beach Cleanup Here Marquette Beach Muskegon, MI www.AdamAlexanderPhoto.com ©Adam Alexander Photography 2019 Don't know about you, but…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Jim Price of U of M Ross School of Business
Jim Price is a serial entrepreneur who found his passion teaching and coaching young entrepreneurs through the Zell Lurie Institute at the…
Rob Pasick's Leaders Connect Breakfast Brings Tech Leaders Together To Talk Google Culture
Matt and Stacey, both Ann Arbor Googlers, talk about company culture and how the tech giant handles rapid change with transparency. Nice to…
How To Get Into Tech When You Didn't Start There: An Interview with Mobile Mondays' Rob Baxtresser
It's not uncommon for people with a degree in music to end up in tech, not just for the jobs but because people with musical training often…
Optimize: The Student-Led Impact Venture Incubator Grows Up
In 2013, a group of University of Michigan students wanted to support each other's startup ventures. Some were tech focused, others social…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Tom Meloche & The History of Agile Programming
Helene Gidley and Tom Meloche of a2agile give us a tour of their space in Office Evolutions co-working space on Eisenhower. Each room is a…
How To Get Media Coverage For Your New Tech Startup
In the two months since Cronicle Press's soft launch, one question we have repeatedly been asked by newer startup founders is this: "How do…
Dug Song of Duo Security: How To Make Tech Success A Success For The Entire Community
Dug Song, founder of Ann Arbor unicorn Duo Security, talks at Intermitten Conference 2019 at The Ark in Ann Arbor about how tech companies…
Tech-Inclusive Lowers Barriers to People Entering the Tech Industry
An Intro To Programming class put on by Tech-Inclusive. Ronda Bergman pictured left. Courtesy photo. What does tech need more of? What we…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Dave Koziol of Arbormoon
Jennifer Marsman leads the Ann Arbor Machine Learning Group hosted at Arbormoon Software. Photo courtesy Arbormoon. If you've been around…
What Is It Like To Manage a 65,000-Person Slack Channel?
Jeff Sica sits down with Cronicle on Liberty across from the Michigan Theater. Legend has it that if you sit still long enough in the ITHAKA…
Mentors of Michigan: Executive Coach Dr. Rob Pasick, PhD
"Dr. Rob" Pasick, PhD, with his iAware co-authors and Leaders Connect panelists Lauryn Humphreys and Ali Houmani. It's a monthly networking…
Entire Interview Redacted with Blue Newt Software's Bob Kuehne
If Cronicle ever gives out a Nicest Dude/Dudette in Tech Award, the first one is going to Bob Kuehne of Blue Newt (not to mention his super…
Leadership & Team Building with Orchestructure Founder Mario Loria
Photo courtesy Mario Loria. Mario Loria is still in his late twenties, but on his team at super hot Detroit-based startup StockX, the…