Episode 331 – MEDC Entrepreneurship Programs, Smart Zones and More

MEDC (the Michigan Economic Development Corporation) returns to our show to chat about entrepreneurship opportunities, grants, smart zones where you can get additional incentives and benefits to get businesses off the ground, and a whole host of other topics that are vital to the changing Michigan economy and they're doing to keep our economic engines moving as times change... Find their programs at: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/ Wave's invoicing solution is at http://www.waveapps.com/ITintheD The BankUnited $54,000 giveaway can be entered by following  @BankUnited on Twitter and tweet @BankUnited your answer to "what would you do with 54 thousand dollars?", using the hashtag #GoForMore54 CapitalOne is at http://www.capitalone.com Hey, what's going on? This is episode 331 of the it in the D show. We got a great guest lined up. He's the MEDC, that's the Michigan economic development Corp for those keeping score at home. He's the entrepreneurship and innovation vice president Fred Molnar. He's talking about, I guess there's thousands of high tech startups across the state, satellite companies. We always thought it was just like batteries and software, but no, there's a ton of stuff going on. Stuff I never even heard of, so I'm going to have a really, really fun time talking to Fred and should be a great show. Cool, and Hey, this show is brought to you by our friends at wave. Are you tired of chasing down payments for your small business waves? Easy. I am invoicing software. Hint, hint, wink, wink. You can customize your invoices, look professional and get paid faster for your work. Use waves, recurring invoicing feature. Hint, hint, wink, wink, so that you can sit back and relax and get back to doing what you love. Create your account at wave apps. It's WAV apps, aps.com/it and the D to get started with 100% free and unlimited invoicing. That's wave apps.com/it in the D. I'm so checking it out. Dave, you may fire when ready. Thank you for hanging out. This is episode three 31 of the one and only it in the D show broadcasting. Where are we? Back in studio one. We weren't. We are. We've, we're home Chewie. We're home. I feel comfy. Feel comfy at the end of the table here. Podcast. He traded beautiful Royal Oak, Michigan. This is Bob the sales guy that go in the worst Chewbacca impersonation ever. Dave the geek. Randy. I do the Twitters. Walker is doing the twin. Oh my. I said your last C I D I forgot. I'm just kidding. Find a sunlight combobulated that too. If you don't know what I'm talking about. Randy's till we say, why didn't you save or why don't you only say my last name and no one else's, so I just used it a pause for like probably a good year at least. Yeah. Find us online it in the D. dot com. Uh, do us a favor. Give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine podcasts are sold. Yep. Yeah, so we've got our event Thursday night, uh, which is this Thursday night, not last Thursday night because I'm a moron and scheduled it wrong. I feel like I owned that appropriately. Uh, we will be at Detroit city distillery, uh, and then next month, uh, in which will be the third Thursday, uh, we're going to try a new venue, a funnel hangout called Woodbridge pub. A great little spot. Loves great. Dave's is are going to go to Woodbridge. They go, where'd you get drugged in the last night? He goes, I'm not that shallow. First Facebook post is were wasted and it's at Woodbridge puppy with REM. And who posted that? Ran me. Oh, well yeah, I was there. Well, I told you what happened. It's like, cause last week's episode we were bitching about trying to find venues. And so I walked up to the bar and I'm ordering a drink and the bartender goes, Hey man. And he's like, you know, I listened to your show. And I'm like, and that's always a okay, why conversation? Uh, and he said, no, I just kinda cool by the way. He was like, you know, you guys were just bitching about, you know, needing, you know, venues to do stuff. Why don't you do one of your events here and say you can't say no. And then two seats was the owner of the bar who went, I'm sorry, what, what event would you like to do here? And I was like, Oh, it's this networking group thing. I'm like, it's basically we're going to bring some nerds in who liked to drink and hang out and talk. And he was like, yeah, you should do that here. What's the date? And he like, went in the back, grabbed his book. So perfect. I've been there in awhile. No, it's, it's good color. Seriously. There's a bartender, listen to this. Yeah, we're doing it. And they're not charging us 200 bucks an hour just to be in their lobby. I'm good. Nah, screw everything about you Bulla Rama or whatever the hell you are. Uh, so dude, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm ripping the bandaid off this first topic. Dude. You want terminators? This is how you get terminators. No, no, it's not even, it's worse. It's, so Dave's talking about, um, it's from the independent and scientists create first living robots in major breakthrough made out of animal cells. Hold on. They're neither a traditional robot nor and known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact, a living programmable organisms. Would they call it a Xeno bot if I recall correctly, cause you know, meaning alien but meaning Terminator and they've already, so they've already like, and here's the like, I dunno how far down in the article you read. Like yeah, they followed a little program task. Oh they pushed this little pebble around and you push this little thing around and then they started to learn and they started to coordinate and cooperate. You aren't terminators. This is how you get terminated, the three of them. And they created the new language and knock you up in one way. I see. Um, I guess the only good news is, is that they've taken cells from frog embryos and turned them into a machine that can be programmed as they wish that that worked out great in Jurassic park. It was, you know, it was the frog, the frog DNA that no, wait. Yeah, there's no, there's not a tried and true history of why not to do this. Cool. It wasn't that a Roddy Piper film a hell comes to Frogtown one of the trauma movies, like from there might've been, yeah. Um, I don't understand what they would do other than military or sex. That's about the only things that I could think, talking about putting little pockets on them so they can carry you like medicine directly to where they need to go. If you want these frog bots people Oh, inside your body. The small, initially, initially they're very, very small. They're like nanobots carry medicine directly to the sales effected. I don't know that it worked in a, with Martin short movie. Um, wait a minute. They're nanobots, they're from frog. So you gotta you're gonna have a frog growing inside. You know, it's not going to grow. It's just going to be like a couple of cells. No, it won't grow. It won't, it won't. It won't act like life and multiply or mutate at all. It won't. No trust us. And it won't be like ant man where they all like just like get into like the nooks, there'll be like little gremlins. Get into the nooks and crannies of like, uh, yeah, military planes and you know, more magic school bus. Oh. Which I'm not even going to start out how creepy that was. That was horrible. And Hey, if you're an OTA, a antenna user, which I am, I have several in the house. We've got a couple here in the studios, a rescan your rescan, your channels if you haven't already. Uh, we talked about this when it hit, I believe a year ago, uh, when the FCC sold off a whole bunch of frequencies, uh, to make room for some other stuff. Uh, so what channels can you get? Dude? I'm at like 150. Like, no, from your antenna. Yeah. So, and don't get me wrong, like it's not like, so what it is, it's about maybe the size of the, like half of this. The, the headphone amp. Yeah. And it does have a sheet of paper and it says, okay, well no. So the ones that you put up in the window are that size, does it use your house wiring as conduit? And this sits on, um, it sits on the, on the tabletop right next to the, uh, the TV that I've got hooked into. Like I don't, you don't have to have like this particular one, you don't have to have near a window or anything like that. Um, you know, is the, basically it was a, I think this one was like 90 bucks as opposed to like the 40, $50 ones, which are the floppy ones you've got to put up on a window. And so what other channels, cause you've got, you know, uh, there are networks, there are four different state Fox stations. Uh, there's like, you know, the normal Fox two, then you've got like a Fox movie channel. There's a Fox retro channel, which is like, and there's a game show network, uh, all the channel four channels, all the channels, seven channels, all that. I mean it's all the local channels, three plus channels. I mean there's a whole bunch of stuff you can pick up. So they said, uh, he said on his article that said, got laughing comment, which is a comedy and scifi content. Yeah, dude, there's a, there's a bunch of stuff out there that is still broadcasting OTA that, I mean, if you're like, and if you're, if you've cut the cord and you're not using this as one of your options, you're kind of dumb. Well, so what's rescan I don't know what that means. So when you set it up, when you first like plug it into your TV, the first thing you have to do is you tell it, Hey, scan for channels. It's got to say, okay, what are all the signals when you get a new, when you get a new radio, but they've moved frequencies around for cell phones, spectrum and stuff. So you have to rescan because she doesn't move frequencies and it looks like it's going to happen again in March against him. Have to do this again. Probably another thousand channels are going to wind up moving. So yeah, I mean, and like I said, I mean I pick up channels, um, in India, Canada,...