January-February 2022
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January-February 2022
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The Path to Gold
Under the bridge that leads north and downhill into downtown Rochester sits a building that’s nondescript from the outside — a retrofitted old warehouse that fits nicely among the collision […]
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2022 Michigan Investment Organizations
DBusiness unveils its inaugural list of investment organizations in Michigan in conjunction with its venture capital report.
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Unicorn-Bound
It’s no wonder Ann Arbor should spawn Michigan’s two most promising near-unicorns in May Mobility and Groundspeed Analytics, as well as two of its actual unicorns, DuoSecurity and Llamasoft. Ann […]
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Kings of Summer
Alex O’Neill’s transformation from a student at Grosse Pointe South High School experimenting with electronic music in the basement of his parents’ home into Ayokay (A-OK), a Gold Record singer-songwriter-producer, […]
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Top Hotels in Metro Detroit 2022
Selected by AAA and DBusiness for hospitality excellence
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Need for Speed
Twenty years ago, Greg Sandler was working in the local machine tooling sector when his employer cut sales commissions across the board. Rather than accept a pay reduction, Sandler decided […]
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PDA Q&A: The E-Interview, Marina Schloff
DB: Where are you? MS: In Miramar, Fla., to attend our ribbon-cutting ceremony to open Phiston Technologies’ new state-of-the-art R&D, engineering, design, and manufacturing facility. DB: What’s driving the growth? MS: […]
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Catch-22
As the economy continues to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers in Michigan and around the nation are booking new orders yet are struggling to fulfill them, due to a […]
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Buy Local
Supply chain issues and labor shortages are affecting manufacturers of all sizes, but small businesses have another question to answer: How can they compete with lower-priced overseas competitors, particularly those […]
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Peak Savings
At a time when energy costs are on the rise, the City of Dearborn is sitting in comfort due to a novel program that saved the municipality more than $600,000 […]
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A Lady’s Place
Clubs for women aren’t a new concept in Detroit; the Detroit Association of Women’s Clubs was organized in 1921 with eight clubs. It still exists, but right around the corner […]
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Tax Shelter
The road to success has been a roller coaster ride for Southfield’s Crysta Tyus. That ride also carried her to more than $1 million in revenue in 2020. Tyus, 33, […]
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Blade Runner
Ryder DelSignore was bartending and working as an expeditor in the kitchen at Bacco Ristorante in Southfield, which is owned by his father, Luciano, when the COVID-19 shutdown happened. Looking […]
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Top Corporate Counsel in Michigan 2022
Selected by private attorneys in metro Detroit via DBusiness’ Top Lawyers annual peer-to-peer survey.
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Genius of Production
Stephanie Surrugue likes to fly and enjoys, as she says, the “experiences that are not just, you know, the Boeing experience.” Her personal bests were helicopter flights over Iraq and […]
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Michigan and Denmark
The Kingdom of Denmark is a small Scandinavian country that has one land border — in the south, with Germany — which extends just 42 miles. With a population of […]
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Sonic Sculptor
As The Romantics burst through the opening chords of a recent rehearsal at 54 Sound, a legendary recording studio in Ferndale, the band was in the presence of something exceedingly […]
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Breaking the Rules
Siobhán Cronin is best known these days as a classically trained violinist who regularly performs around the world with internationally celebrated artists and touring shows. Her very first steps on […]
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Brand Awareness
Temeria Heard, an aspiring entrepreneur, was working as a marketing manager for a Detroit-based automotive supplier when she came across a Detroit Tigers booth at a Pure Michigan business matchmaking […]
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Inside Out
Nearly six years after former Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced the first round of criminal charges against state and city officials involved in the Flint water contamination crisis, none […]
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Judge and Prosecutor
The life and career of one of the great crime fighters in Detroit history, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Homer S. Ferguson, whose name and grand jury became synonymous in […]
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Body and Mind
Most workouts are routine, but at the Athlete Lab, a new high-performance training and sports science center in Farmington Hills, the body and the mind get equal treatment. The 13,000-square-foot […]
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Revenue Streams
For anyone with talent, making money in the music industry used to be simple. Artists signed with a record label and created albums that were sold to consumers. In exchange, […]
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Back Track
A scientific oven isn’t a standard item in a recording studio, but for 54 Sound in Ferndale, the device is an essential element of preserving the voices, instruments, and yes, […]
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January — February 2022 Commentary
“The next 10 years will be a landmark decade for the automotive industry.” — Trevor Pawl, Chief Mobility Officer, Michigan Research and Development – Defense Gains Michigan has an opportunity […]
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Smart City
The way to revive a city like Detroit, which 150 years ago established the world’s first and largest manufacturing economy, is to rebuild from the roots of its success. Like […]
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Deriding the Rails
John Pierce had some sheep that were killed on the Michigan Central Railroad’s tracks, so he sent a letter to a Marshall newspaper. “No heathen altar ever smoked more continually […]
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2022 Michigan Investment Organizations
DBusiness unveils its inaugural list of investment organizations in Michigan in conjunction with its venture capital report.