100K Ideas
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100K Ideas is a nonprofit business incubator where anyone can bring a business idea for assessment. 170 ideas were vetted in the first year, with 24 clients still active.
100K Ideas is not your average business incubator. In fact, they pride themselves on being different — on being accessible to all members of their community and welcoming to all who walk in their door.
100K Ideas: A unique innovation hub open to anyone looking to build the next, best business
December 26, 2017
FLINT, Michigan—One for one.
Population: 100,000. Ideas: 100,000.
With a goal to “relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden,” 100K Ideas fundamentally is working to re-establish the middle class in Flint, the very city that invented the middle class.
The Ferris Wheel Building’s Grand Opening a Success
November 07, 2017
The Ferris Wheel Building held its ribbon cutting and grand opening yesterday, and those in attendance included Chancellor Susan Borrego, Congressman Dan Kildee, and Governor Rick Snyder. The seven story, Art Deco style building has sat vacant for the past 30 years on Flint’s main artery, Saginaw Street, but recently underwent a $7.5 million renovation and is officially open to the public.
The National Development Council Announced the Winners of the 2017 NDC Academy Awards
November 01, 2017
For innovating project finance, Ferris Wheel Innovation Hub/100K Idea, in Flint, MI, won for assembling four different modes of public and private financing from six different organizations and agencies to create the first business incubator in Flint.
New incubator in historic building aims to transform Flint
April 09, 2017
Phil Hagerman helped transform a corner drug store into a $4.4 billion company. To create a headquarters for the company, he transformed one of automotive history's most significant sites. Now, inspired by the change he has seen in downtown Detroit, he wants to transform downtown Flint.
Ferris building renovation in downtown Flint to get $2.5 million grantWrite a catchy title...
March 28, 2017
With the renovation of the seven-story building comes 100K ideas, an innovation platform that is expected to "put a new spin on the way innovators approach the startup process by offering a 'one-stop-shop' to support them from concept to commercialization," according to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.