Detroit Builds Different

A collection of 3 posts

You don't need money to make money

A founder told me they were stuck. Good idea. Real customer conversations. They'd talked to the market, confirmed the problem, sketched a roadmap. The thing standing between them and building it, they said, was funding. They couldn'

The city as coach

A founder told me last month that he didn't think Detroit could teach him anything about building at scale. He lives in Midtown. He has a real product, a real team, a real customer pipeline. But when he

The room I'm not in

There's a kind of clarity that comes from building in a place that is rooting you on. That is excited for you and encourages the grit you are fighting with.