Silicon Valley company finds Metro Detroit just right
Silicon Valley's Stik moves to Detroit because of the region's resources – particularly talent. Excerpt: "“We had a great network the last two years in the Valley. But the employee side was more advantages here in Detroit being a much bigger fish in a smaller pond of startups. We didn’t start here 2 years ago because we didn’t see the network of investors and advisers that we knew existed in Silicon Valley. But that was 2010. Now, in 2012, there’s a lot of resources here between Quicken Loan’s major investment in the tech scene and an investor group in Ann Arbor that has been very helpful.”" Read the rest here.
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