If California wants to get its innovation game back, says venture capitalist Tom Baruch, it should look at Michigan.
That wasn't a misprint — much-maligned, Rust Belt-tagged Michigan.
We’re talking about my ancestral homeland here. I grew up in the southwest part of the state, where the recession and oil embargo of the 1970s drove unemployment in my little town above 40 percent.
I lived in funny-named places like Kalamazoo and Ypsilanti — both home to state universities and large auto plants — owned a home in one of the state’s innovation hubs, Ann Arbor, and worked in Oakland County, the biggest beneficiary of Detroit’s decline.
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Author: Ron Leuty
