Behold! Detroit's start up resources contained in one chart.
The recently released BizGrid maps 54 organizations that help businesses in Detroit and how to find them, making Detroit's confusing economic world a tad simpler.
A release explains:
The BizGrid features 54 organizations offering services ranging from business planning and strategy to real estate assistance, funding, co-working space, and beyond. Its crisp, simple design enables an entrepreneur to find names and contact information for assistance organizations based on the entrepreneur’s business stage and needs."
The chart sorts organizations by type - just an idea, a startup an existing business -- and by services provided:
- Office space
- Production space
- Funding
- Workforce
- Financial management
- Legal assistance
- Sales and marketing
- Research and product development
- Business planning and strategy
Match the type of business you have with the service you need and the chart leads to organizations that help with exactly that.
A lot of Detroit organization's have their hands on this project. BizGrid was put together by a committee of the Detroit Business Support Network consisting of Bizdom, D:hive, the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, InsYght, and TechTown. The Detroit Business Support Network is a two year old conglomerate of 41 organizations whose business is to help other businesses.
"BizGrid is really to help all of us do out job better -- to grow business in Detroit," said Spencer Olinek, DEGC's business development manager who also works with the Detroit Business Support Network.
Olinek adds that BizGrid is a work in progress that will change as the business landscape does.
Printed versions of BizGrid are available at D:hive and TechTown. Digital copies are downloadable here.
