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The BollyFit Blend: A Q&A with Anuja Rajendra

Some might call it an accidental career, but when a passionate hobby becomes a successful business it seems more like an inevitability. Anuja Rajendra's zeal for fitness and Bollywood-style dance inspired BollyFit, both a lifestyle and growing brand. 

Rust Belt Market Redux: The Success of Small Businesses in a Big Box Store

What started as a noble experiment in support of local artists, creatives and vendors has turned into a vibrant success. Not only has Ferndale's Rust Belt Market been both a home and launching pad for new businesses, it's in the process of becoming an event destination.

Recycling in Detroit: You made it happen

Recycle Here! is packed every Saturday and there is curbside recycling in Rosedale Park, East English Village and Palmer Woods/University District, servicing nearly 50,000 households. Matthew Naimi says that's only the beginning of the Bee Green movement.

A Blaze of Innovation

While most kids are wasting their time mastering Xbox, high schoolers Albert Foo and Sharath Anand are developing a new fire-fighting technology, one that extinguishes interior flames from outside the building. So far ExtinBreachR has landed them top science fair awards and a couple of small grants. But they've got bigger plans.

A Market Grows in Downtown Pontiac

If there's a canary in the coalmine for downtown vibrancy, it's a thriving grocery store. Lafayette Market and Cafe in downtown Pontiac opened its doors at the end of 2012 and is reaching beyond the loft-dwellers that live above to connect with the surrounding community. 

'Opportunity to Grow' recapped

An impressive group of creatives, business owners, real estate and logistics innovators, and festival promoters made up our speaker series panel last Wednesday. Matthew Lewis took notes, Oren Goldenberg captured the event on video. 

Sectors

Woman Owned

Women have long played key roles on Metro Detroit's stage, ranging from big-time politicians like Gov. Granholm (a product of Metro Detroit) to small business owners like Cynthia Pasky, founder of downtown Detroit-based Strategic Staffing Solutions. They don't have Y chromosomes but you don't have to listen for long before you hear one of them roar in southeast Michigan, and know she's the boss.
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Organization

University Research Corridor

The University Research Corridor is an alliance of Michigan's three leading research institutions: Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Each of us features complete graduate and undergraduate education, as well as professional degrees in medicine, business and the law. Our research laboratories produce hundreds of patents each year, and our hospitals develop innovative medical treatments that save lives.What is our vision? To unite and lead, playing a key role in creating a vibrant Michigan economy that leverages the intellectual capital of its three public research universities, to work proactively to attract the knowledge economy businesses that can find the research activity that feeds new enterprise, educates the workforce and plants the seeds for the new industries of tomorrow.The combined experience and know-how of the URC universities are the hope of Michigan's economy, producing new ideas and bright young minds to lead us all to a better future.

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Founders

Nadir Ali

Nadir Ali

City: Detroit

Nadir Ali is the founder of 3andathird, a design start-up based in Detroit.

Dennis Stepaniak

Dennis Stepaniak

City: Ann Arbor

Dennis Stepaniak is the CEO of CareCheq, a software firm based in Ann Arbor.

Skip Cerier

Skip Cerier

City: Ypsilanti

Skip Cerier is the CEO of SchoolPictures.com, an education start-up based in Ypsilanti.

Laura Schrader

Laura Schrader

City: Ann Arbor

Laura Schrader is the CEO of 3-D Biomatrix, a University of Michigan spin-out based in Ann Arbor.

Rami D Fakhoury

Rami D Fakhoury

City: Troy

Rami D. Fakhoury is the managing director of the Fakhoury Law Group, an immigration employment practice based in Troy.

Jenile Brooks

Jenile Brooks

Jenile Brooks is the founder of Harvest Express, a food start-up based in Detroit.

Companies

1.
i3 Detroit

i3 Detroit

City: Ferndale
Industry: Creative Sector,Emerging Technology
2.
Slow Jams

Slow Jams

City: Grosse Pointe Woods
Industry: Creative Sector,Woman Owned
3.
Moosejaw

Moosejaw

City: Madison Heights
Industry: Creative Sector
4.
Local Orbit

Local Orbit

City: Ann Arbor
Industry: Creative Sector,Emerging Technology,Woman Owned
5.
MarkMaynard.com

MarkMaynard.com

City: Ypsilanti
Industry: Creative Sector,Diversity,Jewish Community,Marketing / Media
6.
Broder & Sachse

Broder & Sachse

City: Birmingham
Industry: Boomers,Creative Sector

1012 companies and growing.