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I once went to a beach restaurant on a small island in the Grenadines called The Last Bar Before The Jungle.  It was an oversized beach shack with wea[...]

Blumira, an Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity startup, announced today that it has raised $15 million in Series B financing and is launching a new platfor[...]

Time for a change? More and more tech companies are hiring and looking for talented people to join their teams. In fact, according to Crunchbase, in t[...]

Axuall, a Cleveland-based workforce intelligence company serving healthcare organizations, has raised $20 million in a Series B fundraise. The round w[...]

How did a wedding invitation create a multi-million dollar brand? It all started one Thanksgiving break when Jenn Hyman watched her sister model a dre[...]

You never know when your next big idea will strike. For Victor Darolfi, it was at a tire shop.  He had been waiting three hours for his wife’s tires t[...]

Mark your calendars! The summer is starting, and the Midwest momentum is only growing. Tech events all around the Midwest are lined up for the season.[...]

Columbus startup SureImpact has raised $2 million to help nonprofits measure, understand, and share their philanthropic impact. The seed round was led[...]

For many of us, nearly a third of our lives will be spent in the workplace. We spend more waking hours in our (physical or virtual) workplace than at [...]

How do you build something that lasts?  That's just one of the questions we tackled in our latest episode of Finding Balance, this time with Adam Shoe[...]

Although they’ve been around for 10 years and have great brand recognition in the renewable energy space, GreenLancer still operates like a startup on[...]

It's been an exciting week for Midwest startup and tech news. While the tech job market is still in the doldrums, there's been quite a bit of startup [...]

Qualifi, the Indianapolis-based startup helping enterprises with high-growth hiring, recently announced that it has raised $4.5 million in an oversubs[...]

Talking about work-life balance in an interview isn't taboo anymore. Or at least, it shouldn't be.  Just take it from Julia Kimmel, VP of People at Ro[...]

Have you ever experienced burnout? We get it, and so does Alex Simmons. While working in finance in 2019, he faced severe burnout and sought therapy, [...]

Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics in tech, but the reality is — AI companies have been working on this for a long time.  ChatGPT ha[...]

The Ohio Tech Summit is back after a successful debut last year, this time in Columbus.  A year after holding its inaugural summit in Cleveland, OhioX[...]

In 2010, two years after the auto industry’s recession, the unemployment rate in Detroit reached a staggering 24.9%. At the time one major industry wa[...]

Tucked in the woods just east of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a $200 million, state-of-the-art office that feels, well, out of this world.  “You don’t find[...]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but for those who struggle with mental health issues, finding support is a year-round challenge.  There’s no dou[...]

Though the venture capital industry is known for handing out the big bucks to — hopefully — promising startups, the industry is less known for their o[...]

Looking for a Software Engineer job at a cool Midwest startup? There are companies out there that are still hiring! And they want to meet you👇   Jump[...]

Finding balance between your work life and personal life can be a huge challenge. It's not as simple as keeping a consistent work schedule. There are [...]

Funding may be slowing down across the board, but Detroit sure had a busy week in startup activity. Three Southeast Michigan tech companies announced [...]

On March 28 we sat down with a group of fearless female tech leaders to talk through their experience of being a woman in the tech industry. We covere[...]

High-tech semiconductor manufacturing, venture capital, and Silicon Valley share a common origin story.  In 1955, William Shockley left the East Coast[...]

Tom Williams grew up in Cincinnati with the idea that you should move to a major market to start your career. So, after graduating from the University[...]

TiiCKER®, a Detroit and Grand Rapids-based startup, just announced that it has closed a $5 million seed funding round to accelerate its marketing and [...]

You’ve heard it before: Earth Day is every day. It’s a cutesy slogan used in April pretty much every year and although its excitement has worn off wit[...]

Early in my career, I was advising a global company’s newly established technical support group whose employees worked in shifts to provide 24/7 phone[...]

In 2018, Veeva Systems, a Silicon Valley-founded tech company powering the path to the world’s new medicines, announced a new U.S. Hub office in Colum[...]

Okay, so the layoff numbers still look bad. Nearly 170,000 people have been laid off in the tech industry this year. But let’s put things into perspec[...]

Marketing has come a long way over the years — from printing out a few dozen signs on 8.5x11 sheets of paper and hanging them up around town to geotag[...]

What do a mead maker, Danny DeVito cardboard cutout and healthcare claims all have in common? AccumTech.  Located in Ann Arbor, AccumTech is an inclus[...]

A fulfilling career goes far beyond a nice paycheck and a modern office space. It even goes beyond remote-life, flexible working hours, and work-life [...]

We love springtime! Things start picking up again, we all emerge from our winter cocoons, and warmer weather brings the return of outdoor gatherings a[...]

Work-life balance. Work-life integration. Separation of work and life. Whatever you want to call it, the peace we find between our work life and our p[...]

If you're one of those people who is looking for a new opportunity because you didn't like the review you received, didn't get the raise you wanted, s[...]

Construction labor is not increasing fast enough to meet demand, creating a tight labor market and putting contractors at increased risk of workforce [...]

So you have your employer branding strategy built. You've started creating content. You're distributing it across your channels. Your team is attendin[...]

In today's job market, it's not enough to simply offer a paycheck and a few benefits to attract and retain top talent. Organizations need to create an[...]

Software as a service is no longer a new idea — but it still packs a big punch in the way we do things. From construction to healthcare, SaaS companie[...]