Startup Detroit: From Cranks to Code; How the Motor City Is Revving a New Engine
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Steel-Belt Beginnings & Motown Beats: Why Detroit Built Everything from Ford to Funk Long before it became a symbol of rust a city off track, Detroit was a strategic settlement founded in 1701 by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac at Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, a riverfront trade nexus between French Canada and the Great Lakes.
- Published in Regional Development
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Entrepreneurship: The Illegal Move Economics Can’t Explain
Thursday, 17 July 2025
- Published in Economic Development, Startups
Botswana’s Startup Paradox: Why Africa Searches for Venture Capital
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
This is a country with the continent’s most stable democracy, solid credit ratings, one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa over the past fifty years, and the world’s largest diamond producer. Having just released our research into why venture capital avoids regions of the world, my attention turned to Africa because the continent is arguably
- Published in Regional Development
Why Venture Capital Avoids your Startup Ecosystem
Monday, 14 July 2025
Working with cities throughout the world, developing startup ecosystems, every one of them echos the same in their effort to encourage entrepreneurship, “we’re focused on bringing investors to the table.” What they’re doing is typical, ironically, of founders, who hear a problem and the focus on the solution (which by the way founders, is wrong).
- Published in Featured, Startup Ecosystems
We Already Know How to Do This: Stop Reinventing Startup Development Organizations
Friday, 11 July 2025
Recently, someone asked me, “How do you make a training center for entrepreneurs to be self-sustaining and not just dependent on investors?” And I nearly threw a stapler. Not because the question isn’t valid, because it is, but because we’ve been answering it for decades. The model exists. It’s tested. It’s been done over and
- Published in Economic Development, Startups
Startups Are Not Small Businesses: A Texas Startup Policy Blueprint for Unlocking Capital
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
Published in collaboration with the TexCap Policy Institute, this new white paper is more than another call for “more startup support.” It’s a public policy intervention – one Texas desperately needs if we want to lead the nation in innovation, venture capital, and the next generation of job creation. We titled it plainly:Startups != Small
- Published in Economic Development
Aerospace Adelaide
Monday, 30 June 2025
Adelaide’s not merely dipping a toe into space, it’s building its own launchpad, and during a recent whirlwind tour of the United States, I had a chance to share some thoughts with a few of the startups making the rounds and decided to dig in deeper to some possibilities. Under the radar, this ecosystem has
- Published in Aerospace, Regional Development, Startup Ecosystems, Uncategorized







