October 3rd, 2012

Entelo Launches To Help Businesses Recruit The Best Candidates, Even If They’re Not Looking

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In July of last year, Jon Bischke and John McGrath co-founded Entelo to help companies large and small identify and recruit technical talent. Since then, the startup has been in limited beta, providing only brief glimpses into what they were building, but that officially ended this morning. → Read More

January 14th, 2012

A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur

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On stage at last month’s Le Web conference Shervin Pishevar, a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, stated “The World is a Startup.” It’s an interesting perspective and I think what’s true for the world is also true for countries, states and cities. With developments like last month’s announcement that Cornell was selected to build a new tech campus in New York City, it seems to follow that if “a… → Read More

September 23rd, 2011

Motor City Mojo: The Startup Renaissance In Detroit

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Editor’s note: This post is authored by guest contributor Jon Bischke. Jon is a founder of RG Labs and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter here.

San Francisco. Palo Alto. New York. Cambridge. Austin. Boulder. Detroit. One of those doesn’t seem to fit in there right? After all, Detroit’s a mess isn’t it? The median house price in Detroit is $6,000. Half of… → Read More