The Rise and Fall of Cribspot

Alex Gross (head of business development); Evan Dancer (co-founder, CTO/lead engineer); Jason Okrasinski (co-founder and CEO); Tim Jones (co-founder and CMO); Kevin Gardner (content manager)

Renting in Ann Arbor has never been a picnic.

With little to no online information, students seeking off-campus housing relied on paper signs in …

Beyond the Scale: Munson uses $10,000 InBody machine to analyze muscle-to-fat ratios

Munson’s Healthy Weight Center is redefining the way that patients exercise and lose weight. Instead of relying on just the scale, the center is using another piece of equipment: the InBody machine.

The Healthy Weight Center, located at the Munson Community Health Center on Munson Avenue, purchased the InBody last …

Debt-Free Education is Still Possible

How do you fill 9,000 open construction jobs in the state of Michigan in one year? Or 500,000 skilled professional trade jobs by 2024? According to the Michigan Department of Talent and Economic Development, those staggering numbers are reality. Why? The Great Recession exodus, birth rate decline, skilled professional tradespeople …

Making Waves: Paddlesports community questions potential fees

A proposal that would require owners of kayaks, canoes and paddleboards to register their craft with the state is generating a boatload of controversy in the paddling community.

The Michigan State Waterways Commission passed a little-noticed resolution in February recommending that paddlecraft owners pay a registration fee of as much …

Boating Registrations Swell in Region

Boat registrations in Michigan have fallen 10 percent since peaking in 2003, but the five-county Grand Traverse region is bucking the trend.

That’s not a surprise to Rick Venner, general manager of Harbor Springs-based Walstrom Marine’s Traverse City showroom, which sells new and used boats ranging in size from about …

The Heart and the Sword: An Entrepreneur’s Fable

How Thriving Leaders Can Make an Exponential Impact on This World

By Vance Brown and John Brolin

Published Feb. 25, 2018, We Happy Few, Inc., 138 pages

Paperback: $12.99, E-read version: $9.95

In a nutshell: The frustrated owner of a growing tech company learns how to balance his passion for …

A Big Thanks to Small Business

Some things can’t be overstated or emphasized enough. One of them is the importance of small business to northwest Michigan’s economy.

As the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce ramps up its annual Small Business Celebration this month – culminating June 5 with the presentation of the 2018 Hagerty Small …