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BUILD Institute's four-pronged mission of Learn, Launch, Fund, and Connect, is serving communities outside of Detroit and the region well. Learn how BUILD’s outreach has surpassed home and has provided help to places such as Traverse City and Indiana....
BUILD is proud to announce their first signature fundraising event “ BUILD BENEATH THE STARS” happening at the Aretha Amphitheater. There is nothing that embodies the essence of Detroit more than aspiring Detroit entrepreneurs uniting and experiencing a night of...
BUILD, along with the Best Practices Consulting Services in Flint, and the CDC Small Business Finance, launches a program that provides participants with education based on the BUILD BASICS course. Proven useful to entrepreneurs in Detroit, startup services are also...
BUILD alum Hamissi Mamba of Baobab Fare recently competed on an episode of Chopped on the Food Network and WON!...
BUILD Institute and Honeycomb Credit have partnered in an effort to bring another lending product to Detroit small business owners. The mission of their partnership has been to ensure that mainstreet businesses are thriving through buy/local, shop/local now to include...
"Jacquise Purifoy wakes up every day to face the reality that in her city of Detroit, where 79 percent of the population is black, the average white-owned business makes $1.36 million in revenue a year, while the average black-owned business...
"Rick Novasky has never forgotten the day back in the 1980s when he was working a shift in the ticket office at Detroit’s Michigan Central Station....
Michigan’s unicorns demonstrate a fertile startup ecosystem with unlimited opportunities. A couple weeks ago, StockX became the state’s newest in a quickly-growing cohort of unicorns, which includes two other startups that also earned the elite status this year....