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I was lucky enough to attend TEDxDetroit with my teammates Nikki Little and Tom Nixon this past Wednesday. After a day full of tales of out-of-the-box thinking and entrepreneurial success, I wanted to share with you three presentations that I just can’t get off my mind.

My hope is that, after reading this, you too will be inspired to tackle an idea and watch it grow into something beautiful. An idea is always at the epicenter of entrepreneurial success. It’s whether we choose to act on it and surround ourselves with smart people with a common goal that we can really begin to make a difference.

In the first initiative of Identity’s 2011 charitable giving campaign, the Identity team devoted a day to volunteering at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit. Team members packed groceries and hung clothes in the warehouse before taking a tour of The Heidelberg Project, eating lunch with guests of Capuchin and experiencing a different side of Detroit.

People in the PR business are usually trying to pitch their clients’ stories to the media. That’s what makes this story about Annie Read an interesting one. She was a reporter pitching herself to a PR person.

Annie is actually an 8th grader from metropolitan Detroit who decided to write a story about her musical idol, Eminem, for her school newspaper

This post originally appeared on the Crain’s Detroit Business Second-Stage blog space. Dave Haviland’s excellent article, “Scaling Up Fast,” especially in context of the upcoming Crain’s Workshop, has me thiinking a lot about tipping points lately. I think of the “tipping point” as that point in time in which a business ceases being an entrepreneurship [...]

Jason Falls, social media educator, social media strategist and public relations professional, has been hanging out in Detroit for the past couple days. He graced us with his southern charm at a Tweetup at the Royal Oak Brewery Tuesday night.