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Catching the Startup Bug
Rianna Middleton

Catching the Startup Bug

April 10, 2019 riannamiddletonLeave a comment

My favorite podcast is NPR’s How I Built This. I love hearing the host, Guy Raz, marvel at how the founders of Airbnb, Squarespace and Lyft went from a one-off idea of two dudes in a basement to a thriving business worth billions of dollars. But, even as I listen to the passion in the… Continue reading Catching the Startup Bug

The Start-Up Mentality for the Everyday Person
Sydney Naseef

The Start-Up Mentality for the Everyday Person

January 22, 2019 Sydney Naseef3 Comments

You don’t have to have all the answers…you just need a problem to solve.

Alexa Seeger

Developing Media Startups for the Future

January 25, 2018 alexaseeger2 Comments

I can see the future — and the future is digital. But it’s not quite that simple. Start-ups are an essential part of our world as it exists today. Without start-ups, we’d have no computers, no Microsoft, no Dropbox and, god forbid, no Facebook. Yet, to shape our world, the founders of these start-ups had… Continue reading Developing Media Startups for the Future

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  • alexaseeger
    • Lessons Learned: Entrepreneurship Without Being an ‘Entrepreneur’
    • Who’d Have Thought? 30 Years of Pivoting Leads to a National Masonry Magazine
    • Shanley Pearl’s Refreshing Definition of Success in Entrepreneurship
    • Riding the Minimum Viable Product Roller Coaster
    • The Antidote to Oblivion? Continuous Innovation
  • Allia McDowell
    • Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators: Q & A with Kendall Kotcher
    • One day, I’ll solve your biggest problem
    • Social Marketing: Put up your dukes or throw in the towel
    • The Line Between Media and Business is Blurry
    • What goes around comes around (for $237 million)
  • amsandoval4
    • Spartans Innovate Outro
    • LinkedIn: Professional FaceBook?
    • Bernie Kim: FOX Sports Coordinator Producer
    • An MVP Makes Your Business
    • Peter Shankman: Mogul, Author, Skydiver, The CatMan
  • anhudy
    • Down to Detroit
    • Building, Measuring & Learning
    • Would You Pay Us for This?
    • In Search of the Perfect Coney
    • Know Your Enemy to Survive the Startup Game
  • ashleygibbard
    • Your crazy ideas may actually be a solution
    • When nothing builds to something
    • The Fast Pitch
    • Marketing is just as important as the product
    • The future of media with podcaster Michael O’Connell
  • anastasianiforos
    • JRN 450: You Have My Heart
    • Detroit Entrepreneurs and Their Roads to Success
    • Infiltrate the Target Market, Find the Customers
    • Start-ups: Have a Purpose and Develop a Plan
    • Follow Your (Startup) Dreams … With a Plan in Hand
  • BigTee724
    • What I Learned About Entrepreneurship
    • Picking the right place to advertise your business can help it sink or swim
    • Building a Network is Easier than it Seems
    • Gimlet Media: One Man Start-Up to $230 Million Sale
    • A Look Behind The Scenes of Building a Startup
  • Blair Waters
    • Pitchin’
    • ‘Grow tough skin’ and other advice from editor Donna Ladd
    • RISE and Land Grant Goods
    • A Detroit startup experience
    • The Bassett Asset (lol)
  • blairmoon
    • What I’ve Learned Throughout The Semester In my Media Innovation Course
    • Paigion Walker: Be Laser Focused on What You Want
    • A Day In the Motor City
    • The Good, The Bad and The Consequences of What You Create
    • Many Coney’s Fight For The #1 Spot, But Only One Can Take The Crown!
  • brenne55
    • I did it! I started my own business
    • Managing the stress of entrepreneurship
    • Social Media/Marketing
    • Detroit Startup Day tour
    • Making assumptions and proving a startup hypothesis
  • bridgetbartos5921
    • A Semester of work on one project
    • Which Social is the Best Social?
    • Bad ideas actually aren’t that bad
    • First Hand: Talking to entrepreneurial ​​journalists
    • The Coney Quest: How visiting three Coney Islands taught us about branding
  • charrison1211
    • What I learned from (trying) to build an enterprise
    • The martial art of social media strategy
    • The advice I heard from Uncle Bob echoes to this day
    • Let’s start a startup (actually, let’s not and say we did)
    • I was told to find a path out of journalism, but that’s the last thing I’m going to do
  • chludzinskibrittanie
    • Never stop asking “Why?”
    • Behind-the-scenes of an entrepreneur’s hustle
    • The power of an idea
    • The importance of building an authentic brand
    • Ricky Brandt’s passion for the digital world
  • Courtney Nicole
    • How Dorothy Hernandez Combines Entrepreneurship and Journalism
    • The Test for Success
    • You Live and You Learn It
    • Beat Your Competition in the Race to the Finish Line
    • Hit the (Market) Bullseye to Find Startup Success
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    • Going through the motions. What is my smallest experiment? Strangers are actually my friends????
    • Get Over the Fear of Failure and Be True To You!
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    • The WaPo’s Super Bowl Ad Doesn’t Address the True Problem in Journalism
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    • Startups, Not for Everyone
    • Digital Marketing Tips from Expert Kathy Suchowiecki
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    • Tips From the Experts: Peter Shankman
    • Know Your (Target) Market, Generate Results
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    • A bump in the road is just a bump
    • Detroit Day Photo Story
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    • Modern Day Entrepreneurship
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    • Anyone Can Have a Social Media Following
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    • Convert to Converting … Recorded Interviews to Transcribed Notes
    • Times have changed and technology has changed
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    • Inside the Growing Media Market of Sports Analytics
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    • Stock Price of Print – Record Lows
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    • A Ride to Detroit, For Knowledge
    • Happiness is Essential to Life
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    • There Are Many Ways to Enter the Journalism World
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    • Journalism is important, especially when it’s local
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    • My Journey Into Entrepreneurship
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    • Where will an MSU degree take me?
    • Navigating the Stormy Seas of Media
    • It’s Time to Think Big
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    • The End is Finally Here!
    • Love is better than like
    • Peter Shankman: I Am More Than What You Think of Me
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    • Time to Fix the News Media
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    • Entrepreneurship Is Not For The Faint of Heart
    • Alisa Parenti Explains How Bloomberg is Innovating
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    • Trick to Selling Subscriptions? Be So Good Your Audience Can’t Ignore You
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    • Detroit, a blossoming modern city
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    • Successful startups begin with a fresh perspective
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    • Abby Bassett: The freelance life
    • Ad-supported media in the current age
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    • Innovation: Not Just for Work or Class
    • Hard Work and Authenticity – a Q&A with Chase Rickaby
    • Fostering Innovation from Startup to Global Business
    • Entrepreneurship Lessons from Peter Shankman
    • Thoughts on Funding Local News
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    • Expanding my Own Brand
    • “This Should Exist…”
    • ‘Turning Fear Into Fun’
    • Peter Shankman: ‘If You’re Not Failing, You’re Not Trying Hard Enough’
    • Sometimes it Makes Sense to Charge for News
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    • What Riding a Bike Taught Me About Entrepreneurship
    • A Tour of Inspiration, Renovation and Motivation
    • Peter Shankman: How ADD Can Be a Gift
    • My First (Brand) Love Story
    • How my childhood lemonade stand taught me about competition
  • mckennaross
    • A Q&A with “Michigan Crime Stories” Podcast Creator Darcie Morgan
    • Everything in startups takes more work than expected
    • Finding your audience is more important than ever
    • The importance of networking and being nice
    • Selling and determining the worth of media
  • mikeepps23
    • Social Media: it’s tougher than you think
    • John Hill: Top 5 guest speaker
    • Podcasts: The Underrated Medium of Content
    • Does everyone still know what a newspaper is?
    • Creativity: Everyone Has It
  • nadialorencz
    • What haven’t I learned?
    • Marketing is Key
    • Eric Thomas
    • Detroit lessons: Passion is the key to business
    • Abigail Bassett: Get your hustle on
  • Sydney Naseef
    • Innovating the Ordinary
    • Is It a Wrap for Startup Sydney?
    • Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook with Gary V.
    • A Journalism Degree: Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
    • Spotify Acquisition: Gimlet Media enters new world
  • Chris Platte
    • My Trip To Detroit
    • When Creating a Startup, Be Ready For The Unexpected
    • An Anomaly in More Than One Way
    • Every Business Needs Allies
  • haimerlad
    • Is the future of journalism dim?
    • Innovation in media: Where are we going?
    • State of news media: I need to learn how to podcast
  • riannamiddleton
    • How Condé Nast’s Khadija Bush Balances Innovation and Intuition
    • Catching the Startup Bug
    • Why “Jabbing” is a Critical Component of a Social Media Strategy
    • The Power of a Journalism Degree
    • Where Do You Grow Growth Businesses?
  • Sophie L. Charboneau
    • JRN 450: What A Ride It’s Been
    • LaSharah Bunting Discusses the Future of Journalism
    • A Fax Machine?
    • Be a MVP by Creating a MVP
    • Eat A Vegetable or Two
  • sfmcglone
    • Freelancing is a whole new world
    • Journalism: Or, how I learned to worry even more and stay ambivalent
    • The Spark: How great ideas happen and why they matter
    • Journalists don’t make enough — it’s time to get mad
  • Simone Fenzi
    • My journey in Media Innovation
    • The Run on Social Media
    • You have a company, now find the price
    • Gannett, A Giant in a Dying Industry
    • From ideas to Startups, a journey through MSU’s Hatch
  • sswix17
    • JRN 450: A Window into the Future of Media and Entrepreneurship
    • How pizza delivery can relate to pitching your business plan
    • The importance of personal branding
    • A Social Media Strategy Swap with Layne Bernstein
    • Detroit: Just the beginning
  • Nicholas K. Stahl
    • 16 Weeks With Entrepreneurship
    • Aaron Bleyaert, A Leader In Entertainment
    • The Unexpected Trip to Detroit
    • The Inevitable and Unintended Consequences of Creation
    • A Lesson On Hard Work
  • rutaulcinaite
    • Meet Communication Expert Doug Black
    • The power of learning about entreprenuership
    • Put it on all the socials? Not so fast.
    • Entrepreneurship is Possible No Matter What you Study, Take it from the Professionals
    • Media is Still Profitable
  • Vanessa X
    • JRN450: A wonderful journey
    • Why They Success and How It Feel When You Have An Entrepreneur in Home.
    • Some Tips to Myself
    • Choice Matters to Marketing
    • What it’s like to work as a reporter in China
  • vincywen
    • “Why Not?”
    • Simple Idea Is Not Simple
    • Why does your startup fail?
    • Keep adapting as time goes on
    • The Brilliant Inheritance
  • whymepoetry
    • Keep Calm and Idea On
  • zimowang0201
    • Entrepreneurship Experience Reflection
    • Finding the right social media platform
    • Guest speakers bring career experiences
    • A path we could follow
    • Local news exist like oxygen
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