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When you 'forge' your own path with fellow entrepreneurs who are learning -- will you grant more weight to those who have proven to succeed? How about those wh
by jeffepp 15y ago
When you 'forge' your own path with fellow entrepreneurs who are learning -- will you grant more weight to those who have proven to succeed?
How about those who built more successful (at least from a financial perspective) than 99.99999% of the world and have the power and resources to enact real change?
Haven't you heard, a recent article [1] gives 13 reasons there is a comeback, and it has some interesting nuggets:
- unemployment is 11.3% (not 50%)
- high tech jobs growing over 100% yoy
- ranked 46/150 for growth (opposed to 146 previously)
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-comeback-2011-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-comeback-2011-3
Rents, land, & costs of living are super low -- these are all significant advantages in any competitive business landscape.
- jjm 15y agoWe can go back and forth with this. Will you agree to come back to HN in 10 years (assuming HN will be around), and we shall gauge whether Detroit's growth is explosive or slow? Enough to reverse the population and poverty statistic trends?