Ted Serbinski, vice president at Detroit Venture Partners, doesn't have time or interest to think about a Tumblr meme or Detroit Jalopnik posts discussing "a creative class war."
He'd rather focus on trying to be "one of the heroes that rebuilt a city," as he explains in a guest post at Crain's.
I moved to Detroit to be one of the founding fathers of the startup software technology community in southeast Michigan, aka, Detroit. And from what I've seen, Detroit is the ultimate entrepreneurial playground.
Serbinski, a 31-year-old Birmingham resident, moved from San Francisco in 2011 to join Dan Gilbert and Josh Linkner in an investment partnership that is "on a mission to shatter conventional wisdom through software technology venture investments," as he says on Crain's site.
But it's more than just us. Detroit is about to get hit by a perfect storm of economic drivers.
The computer engineering grad (Cornell '04) sees no reason to mock young Detroit entrepreneurs who share that optimism.
They are not taking the easy route to one of the coastal cities like New York or San Francisco. They are rolling up their sleeves, getting to work, and making a difference. They are the epitome of an entrepreneur.
-- Alan Stamm
