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Paige Montana of SEMSEG (Segway Tours of SE Michigan) getting ready to take some friends on a segway tour outside The Elevator Building on Detroit's Riverfront on Aug. 20, 2012 an informal incubator where as many as 25 entrepreneurial businesses and non profit organizations rent space. Montana's Her Father runs the Segway business from the Elevator Building. (AP Photo/ Detroit Free Press, Jessica J. Trevino)

A number of small and informal business incubators have opened in Detroit, offering inexpensive space and some services to companies that are trying to get going.

These are besides the larger, government or agency-sponsored incubators in the region such as Ann Arbor SPARK, TechTown in Detroit, and the Macomb Oakland University Incubator.

The lesser-known incubators that have opened in Detroit over the past couple of years include Ponyride on the city's near-west side, the Elevator Building in the east riverfront district, and the Green Garage in Midtown.

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