Startup Grind Growing in Lansing
I'm excited to announce Startup Grind is coming to Lansing. Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Startup Grind is phenomenally good at achieving those three goals. Don't believe me, Startup Grind has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and TechCrunch.
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Startup Grind is an exciting new addition to Michigan's Detroit and Kalamazoo chapters. Join our community today and reserve your ticket to our inaugural event January 22nd.
Lansing has a slew of resources for the Startup Community. Resources like the MSU Innovation Center, Startup Lansing, MSU Hackathon, the NEO Center, LEAP, the TIC. Lansing has events like DemoCamp Lansing, The Hatching, Launched, and GreenLight.
Why Startup Grind Lansing?
Startup Grind will be compliment existing events and resources by bringing inspiration, education, and community to the Lansing startup scene. It will bring additional visibility to the region, bring experienced speakers to Lansing, and connect local entrepreneurs. Our business leaders who speak will be highlighted on the global Startup Grind website. Business wizards and top-notch investors from around the country will come in to share their business acumen with our Lansing community.
Successful founders will educate attendees. They will explain what worked, that everyone makes mistakes, what the biggest challenges were, etc.
Startup Grind events are inspiring. It is great hearing successful founders discuss the depths of despair they survived. For those of us struggling with seemingly insurmountable challenges we will realize successful businesses owners have all had dark days. Attendees will hear from founders who have grown businesses to tens of millions and hundreds of millions in annual revenue.
Best of all Startup Grind events connect Lansing entrepreneurs. As Silicon Valley demonstrated, connecting people is critical to success. In addition to Startup Grind Lansing events connecting entrepreneurs Lansing will be part of the global network and can leverage the network to connect with founders and investors across the globe.
Startup Grind will bring additional visibility and resources to Lansing area entrepreneurs. More eyeballs, more high profile entrepreneurs, and more venture capital attention. These are great things for Lansing and Lansing’s businesses.
Our First Event January 22nd
I'm excited to announce our first event at the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center on Thursday January 22nd. Entrepreneurs from all industries are invited to come hear from Michael Labriola, author, and speaker. His company Digital Primates has been named to the Streaming Media 100, a list of the 100 most influential and important companies in online media.
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Please join us January 22nd. I look forward to connecting with you and helping you on your journey!
David Smith
Director, Startup Grind Lansing