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Non-dilutive Funding Options for Startups in the Midwest
A comprehensive guide to finding non-dilutive funding for Midwest startups, based on my experience building and selling my own SaaS startup in Michigan.

How I Built This Website with AI
A deep dive into the design and development process of building my personal website with AI.

How to UX the F*** out of Fake News
Product designers are on the hook, not to censor or bias content, but to provide a mechanism that informs their users of the reliability of the content being disseminated in their products.

Hey Designer, you're not an artist: 9 tips to becoming a designer who means business
It's happened to us all. You put in the sweat and tears hitting the streets and talking to real users. You've blended your insightful research findings with the talents you developed in your $300,000…

Innovation Only Looks like Innovation in Hindsight
Certain things in this world burst on to the scene with a big bang that explosively marks an historical moment of extreme innovation. Take the iPhone for example — when that launched it was different…

16 Prototyping Tools & How Each Can Be Used
Spoiler alert: everyone should be skilled in multiple prototyping tools. One is not enough. More on that later. Prototyping is an intimate part of the Design Thinking process. It's the necessary part...
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