July 2011
9 posts
Venture For America
I was invited to (and did) join the entrepreneur board of the shiny new Venture for America, “A program for young, talented grads to spend 2 years in the trenches of a start-up with the goal that these graduates will become socialized and mobilized as entrepreneurs moving forward.” They’re currently looking for their first round of fellows who will receive training and support to...
LOVELAND Technologies Looking For Developers &...
Come on, you know you want to work on new school internets in Detroit (wherever you are). Job details on Facebooks, or, sure, let’s just paste it right here too:
CONTACT LARRY@MAKELOVELAND.COM IF INCHERESTED:
LOVELAND (makeloveland.com) is looking for a developer to help build our suite of community mapping and crowdfunding web apps. Front or back end or both, we’re open to working...
Metro Times On Crowdfunding In Detroit
Travis Wright has an epic cover story about crowdfunding and Kickstarter in Detroit with quite a bit on LOVELAND, Detroit Big F Deal, and other awesome city projects. Very cool and very human! Go Detroit!
Kickstarting Detroit: Creative crowdfunding in a cash-strapped city
A Social Network For Buildings?
Model D mentions some work LOVELAND is doing that could help a housing development manage properties and capacity while making community life more interesting for residents. We’ll see where it goes…
Working is a job
Demetri Martin on RoboCop and Kickstarter in Real Detroit (at the bottom):
RD: You may have heard (probably not) that a Kickstarter passed in Detroit to build a Robocop statue (silly, right?).
DM: Building a statue takes work. Working is a job. So, that means building a statue in Detroit would create jobs in Detroit. And that sounds good to me.
RD: If you created a Kickstarter to fund...
Leave Luck To Heaven
“Leave Luck To Heaven” is the English translation of “Nintendo”. My friend Brad (AKA Pierce P) and I have been dreaming about making games under that title for a long while. Well, it looks like that’s going to happen!
Ryan’s almost done with the oil painting for the Detroit Vs Painting painting-turned-video game thaht LOVELAND helped crowdfund. The next step...
Detroit Internet Club
In an effort to help catalog all the internetty things happening in Detroit and provide some more networking, good times, and a beacon for weary web travelers visiting Motown, the Detroit Internet Club was quietly born on the 4th of July.
Starter website: detroitinternetclub.com.
Facebook fan page.
Twitter sauce.
Wiki of internetty things, peeps, orgs, etc around Detroit.
The next meetup is...
Folk Art Like Button
On a boarded up window at the Imagination Station. Go ahead, click it. Awesome.
Very true
“When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.”
— Farkas Bolyai, to his son Janos, urging him to claim the invention of non-Euclidean geometry without delay.
Quoted in Li & Vitanyi, An introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications, 1st ed., p. 83. Wikipedia entry on “Multiple...
