COTC - 20 Apr 2026 - Startup Week returning to Traverse City

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Good morning, Northern Michigan. And those of you

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listening from elsewhere, this is your cup of

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Traverse City for the 04/20/2026.

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I'm Mike, and I do have my coffee.

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And for those of you that, know what

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this means, it's also 04:20.

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If you know, you know.

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So, this week, there's an event,

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happening in Traverse City, kind of all over

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Traverse City.

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The Northern Michigan

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startup week,

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starts today, goes through Friday, and it's at

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various locations

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around Traverse City,

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centered around, I think, the college and,

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yeah, NMC Innovation

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Center,

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Hagerty Center,

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Milliken Auditorium.

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Yeah. Just a whole bunch of, places around

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town.

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I'll have a link to the story over

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on nine and ten, and that links out

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to the Startup Week website that'll tell you

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all about it.

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Some of them, you have to RSVP.

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Some of them,

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you know, I I don't know the whole

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deal, but, sounds interesting.

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And the way they describe it in the

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story is,

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it's a week long event to bring together

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entrepreneurs, small business owners, and remote workers from

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across the region.

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Events include workshops, panel discussions, and networking opportunities

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hosted at multiple locations around Traverse City.

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Organizers

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say the goal is to support local innovation

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and strengthen the region's growing start up and

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small business community.

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So, yeah, very,

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very good. It started back in 2013

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as as kind of a weekend thing,

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and it's now expanded to a full week.

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And, yeah, looks looks like it might be

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interesting. I might have to go partake in

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something if I get over this airplane crud

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from coming back from Texas.

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By the way, the weather down there was

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not a whole lot better than up here.

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Well, first couple days I was there, it

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was 80 degrees and,

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then it then it got into the fifties.

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So,

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you know, kind of the same

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kind of the same weather as what we

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had up here.

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Speaking of weather,

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before my voice goes away completely,

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sunny with a high near 45 today.

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Calm wind becoming west around five miles per

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hour this afternoon. Tonight, increasing clouds with a

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low around 36.

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South wind, five to 10 miles per hour.

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Thursday or Thursday. Tuesday,

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partly sunny,

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gradually becoming

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mostly sunny.

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I don't know why they put that in

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there.

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With a high near 61.

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Southwest wind five to 10 miles per hour

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becoming west this afternoon.

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okay. So now now that we got the

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weather out, I wanna

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ask you, have you heard

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or has anybody seen any trouble on Cass

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Road?

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Somebody was saying that there was a bridge

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out on Cass Road now,

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but I haven't seen hiding or hair of

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it anywhere else. So

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it's probably fake news. But, if anybody's heard

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anything or or experienced anything, let me know.

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You can

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email me mike@mikedell.com.

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And, I'd be I'd be interested to know,

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if if there is really something going on

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on Cass Road,

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rather than me just driving over there.

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Anyway, catch me tomorrow.