What kind of business can you build in 54 hours? That’s the challenge at every Startup Weekend event and the group in attendance at the M@dison building for Startup Weekend Detroit was more than up to the challenge. Six of us from Atomic Object made the trek out to the event to participate. We built,... Late last year, Atomic was selected to participate in the Pure Michigan Economic Gardening Pilot Program. The program offered expert business consulting for growing companies. We focused the opportunity on Atomic’s strategic growth goal of opening an office in Detroit.
I was invited to give a presentation at the 1DevDay conference in Detroit that was held a couple of weeks ago at the Compuware offices in Downtown Detroit. My presentation on burn down charts seemed well received, with an engaged audience, good material, and lots of interesting questions. I was quite happy with the response….
The 1DevDay Detroit Conference is coming up soon and promises to be an exciting, educational, and fun day of learning about, sharing, and exploring software and software product development techniques. This year the event is being hosted on Saturday, November 5th by Compuware Corporation at their headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
Last evening I gave a 45 minute presentation to the DetroitRuby group about our experiences building a web application with JRuby, Rails, and Torquebox. Here is a link to the presentation. The presentation went well and the group enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to further engagements wirth DetroitRuby, whether it be visiting them again or…
A couple of weeks ago I made it over to the Quicken Loans offices in Detroit for the third (ever) meeting of the DetroitRuby group. Hosted by Mike Bobiney (Quicken Loans) and Chris Hallenday (Tukaiz), the featured speaker for the evening was Carl Wright – the President and Founder of Service Level Corporation. His talk…
Carl is the president and co-founder of Atomic Object