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January 25, 2022Can Flint Make It? Phil Hagerman shares His Efforts to Restore Flint, Michigan and its Urban Spaces.
Radio Free Flint with Arthur Busch
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January 20, 2022Yahoo Finance – SkyPoint Ventures Welcomes Finance and Start-Up Expert, Dan Farrell as its New Vice President
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SkyPoint Ventures, the Michigan-based venture capital and commercial real estate firm led by Founder and Owner Phil Hagerman, RPh, welcomes Dan Farrell as its new Vice President.
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January 20, 2022SkyPoint Ventures Welcomes Finance and Start-Up Expert, Dan Farrell as its New Vice President
In this role, Dan will oversee the direct investments of SkyPoint Ventures and its continued growth with early-stage companies in multiple disciplines that are developing industry-leading processes and technology.
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December 13, 2021Flint networking series connects entrepreneurs with venture capitalists
On Friday, Dec. 10, the city of Flint and its partners hosted a networking event to begin work promised in a $1 million Small Business Administration grant the city received last month.
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November 21, 2020Diplomat Co-Founder Phil Hagerman Leads Plan to Acquire Specialty Medical Company
Former Diplomat CEO acquiring "integrative-medical practices," with holistic approach to care.
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March 16, 2020DRYDEN POP-UP SHOPS
The Ground Floor Market opened five years ago because Phil Hagerman wanted a place that would have grab-and-go food for people downtown.
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February 25, 2020Flint incubator that’s started 29 new businesses gets $325K to continue
The state’s economic development agency likes what it’s seen so far at the Flint Ferris Wheel Incubator and has renewed a $325,000 grant to keep the program running.
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May 29, 2019Kettering students poised to launch scooter ride-share business in Flint
A new electric scooter ride-share company has been awarded $75,000 as it prepares to launch in the city of Flint.
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May 16, 2019Premier Security moves into Flint’s Dryden Building
Premier Security, a company committed to creating and fostering safe school environments for children, will be coming to downtown Flint as the 100th client of 100k Ideas.
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April 19, 2019Flint Twp. start-up delivers $1 million savings to one client, sees growth ahead
Some companies can’t fit the exact number offices they need in their space.
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April 17, 2019Divide by Design opens first showroom
Flint township is getting a new showroom that could bring new life to home and offices.
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March 25, 2019Meet the millionaire helping to save Flint
'angel investor' Phil Hagerman has made himself at home
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March 15, 2019Three Takeaways on Entrepreneurial Tips from David Ollila of 100k Ideas
Entrepreneurial ideas can change lives and cities, but many go unexplored. Fortunately for Flint, one nonprofit is on a mission to make these ideas possible.
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March 7, 2019Millionaire who loves Flint refuses to leave hometown, makes dreams come true
At age 5, Phil Hagerman started stacking soda bottles for 2-cent deposits at the family pharmacy in Flint. While other children watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, the little boy joyfully went to work with his father.
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December 20, 2018Accelerator Group 100K Ventures created to invest in Flint companies
Flint’s unique, innovative entrepreneurial community has helped attract a new for-profit business accelerator to the city.
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December 17, 2018100K Ventures Gives Flint a Boost
Tyler Rossmaessler is with the Flint/Genesee Chamber of Commerce and said a recent visit by Congressional delegates will make a difference to the city. "They found a community that was vibrant and full of ideas.”
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December 12, 2018Draymond Green, Victor Cruz to fund entrepreneurial effort in Flint with former Wall St. exec
Former Wall Street executive Robert Wolf has teamed up with 100K Ideas and some of his celebrity friends to create and launch 100K Ventures.
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December 12, 2018New accelerator group 100K Ventures to invest in early-stage companies in Flint
A group made up of business leaders, professional athletes, journalists and entrepreneurs have joined in a new accelerator group called 100K Ventures that will invest in early-stage companies in Flint.
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December 12, 2018A Wall Street veteran is teaming up with Victor Cruz and Draymond Green to launch a tech accelerator for startups in an unlikely city — Flint
A veteran Wall Street executive is bringing together a group of industry leaders, top athletes, notable journalists, and entrepreneurs to launch an accelerator that invests in startups in a city not widely known for tech entrepreneurs: Flint, Michigan.
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December 12, 2018100K Ventures, a newly formed Flint Michigan Accelerator Group, brings together leaders in business, sports and entertainment
A group consisting of top business leaders, world class professional athletes, well respected journalists and leading entrepreneurs have joined together to launch a newly formed accelerator group called 100K Ventures that will invest in early-stage companies in Flint, Michigan
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November 1, 2018Downtown Pop-ups Gain Popularity
On the ground floor of the Dryden Building in Downtown Flint, a group of ten pop-up shops are up and running, and according to Mary Kang, Human Resource Coordinator with Skypoint Ventures, they are gaining popularity. Kang is currently running the gallery of shops.
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October 31, 2018Downtown Flint seeing dramatic increase in retail businesses
Notice anything different about downtown Flint lately?
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October 29, 2018100k Ideas Lights up Flint
Most people with ideas don’t have the time, money or knowledge needed to put them into effect.
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October 25, 2018Dryden Building celebrates grand opening in downtown Flint
Local businesses have a brand-new avenue to sell their products in the heart of the Vehicle City.
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September 5, 2018Retail shops ‘Pop-Up’ in the Dryden Building
Retail shopping in downtown Flint has taken another step forward with the opening of the Pop-Up Shops on the ground floor of the Dryden Building at south Saginaw and Second streets.
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August 12, 2018One in 100,000: What would happen if everyone in Flint came up with a business idea?
A nonprofit business incubator called 100K Ideas is designed to find out.
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August 12, 2018Meet the Flint Entrepreneur who’s ‘more Phil Knight than Phil Knight’
It's hard for people to stay calm about Kalm Clothing LLC, whether it's Grammy-nominated rappers posting photos of themselves wearing the company's clothes, or normally staid lawyers, venture capitalists and advisers singing the praises of its 25-year-old founder and CEO, Kiara Tyler, a tenant in the Ferris Wheel Innovation Center in downtown Flint and a participant in its 100K Ideas business development program.
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August 12, 2018Downtown Flint Flips The Script
Downtown Flint is busy with economic development projects. Iconic but long-abandoned buildings — some built by businesses or industries now gone or in decline — are being renovated and replaced by growing enterprises.
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July 19, 2018Designing a Better Future for Flint
In this guest blog, 2018 Collaborative Design graduate Maggie Henderson shares her experience helping launch two new initiatives focused on giving the embattled city of Flint, Michigan a new life through design and entrepreneurship. Those initiatives— the Flint Ferris Wheel co-working space and the nonprofit startup incubator 100K Ideas—recently earned Henderson and her partners on the project a National Development Council (NDC) Academy Award in the category of Innovative Project Financing.
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June 26, 2018Work inside Ferris Wheel Building growing Flint’s downtown
So far 40 businesses have moved into the offices upstairs in the . They were just created here in Flint, or came from Detroit, Grand Rapids, even as far as Atlanta, Georgia. "You don't really have to sell this space, the space sells itself," General Manager Heather Kale said.
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June 21, 201839 new businesses moving into Flint’s Ferris Wheel building
FLINT, MI - Ideas on how to push Flint's economy into the future are taking shape within walls of a nearly 100-year-old building in the city's downtown area. Among those looking to aid in the effort are 39 new businesses set to fill up office space in the seven-floor Ferris Wheel building, which reopened in November 2017 after being closed for nearly three decades.
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June 1, 2018Revitalizing a Community through Citizens’ 100K Ideas
100K Ideas is not your average business incubator. In fact, they pride themselves on being different — on being accessible to all members of their community and welcoming to all who walk in their door. They like to describe what they do as “herding reindeers” rather than “chasing unicorns,” like most incubator and accelerator programs, because reindeer “are still mythical, but at least they exist.”
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May 25, 2018Revitalizing a Community through Citizens’ 100K Ideas
100K Ideas is not your average business incubator.
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April 11, 2018100K Ideas celebrates its 100th idea for economic development in Flint
It’s one thing to have a concept, but quite another to make the concept reality.
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January 5, 2018Diplomat Pharmacy founder, CEO Phil Hagerman retires after 43 years
The CEO and founder of Diplomat Pharmacy has stepped down from company leadership after more than 40 years with the Flint-based business.
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December 26, 2017100K Ideas: A unique innovation hub open to anyone looking to build the next, best business
FLINT, Michigan—One for one. Population: 100,000. Ideas: 100,000. With a goal to “relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden,” 100K Ideas fundamentally is working to re-establish the middle class in Flint, the very city that invented the middle class.
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December 1, 2017Ferris Wheel receives top national development award
For drawing on diverse funding sources while consolidating efforts to build Flint’s entrepreneurial community, Ferris Wheel Innovation Hub/100K Ideas has been named as one of the top six most impactful economic development projects in the country.
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November 6, 2017Flint’s new Ferris Wheel entrepreneur hub set in motion
Flint's new entrepreneurship hub opened Monday after a $7.5 million build-out and ribbon cutting that drew hundreds to the once-abandoned Ferris Building downtown.
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October 4, 2017Kettering University students help co-work space, innovation hub in Downtown Flint
Kettering University students are a part of the Flint community for more than four years as they work, go to school and volunteer. Sometimes they also get the opportunity to invest in the community in a unique way during their co-op experience.
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September 30, 2017Article One: A unique Flint startup with sights set on changing the eyewear industry (and the world)
Article One is a Flint-based startup where business is flourishing.
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August 22, 2017$100 million in new projects give downtown Flint a facelift
Multiple projects in various phases are expected to pump in more than $100 million in renovation work, which developers hope will change the face of downtown Flint for years to come.
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May 28, 2017Eyewear company Article One closes a $1.5 million funding round
Article One, a Flint-based company that sells prescription eyeglass frames to optometrists around the country, has closed on a funding round of $1.5 million.
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May 18, 2017Flint’s Toughest Pitch: We’re Open for Business
FLINT, Mich.—As construction cranes pivot in this city’s downtown, a local venture-capital firm is investing more than $14 million to renovate two century-old buildings a block from a bustling indoor farmers market.
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May 5, 2017Downtown Skypoint properties go on the market
Phil Hagerman of Fenton Township, CEO and chairman of Diplomat Pharmacy, Inc. and founder and co-owner of Skypoint Ventures in Flint, is selling all of his city of Fenton properties. Signs should be going up over the next few days.
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April 9, 2017A front-row seat for Flint’s revitalization
t may come as a surprise to those who only know Flint through its water crisis or old Michael Moore documentaries that downtown Flint is bustling these days. But rebirth is nothing new for Flint.
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April 9, 2017New incubator in historic building aims to transform Flint
Phil Hagerman helped transform a corner drug store into a $4.4 billion company. To create a headquarters for the company, he transformed one of automotive history's most significant sites.
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April 9, 2017Flint-based Article One sells stylish eyewear made by Italian artisans, with a social purpose
SkyPoint Ventures LLC, a private equity and real estate firm in Flint, points to Article One as exactly the kind of company it wants in its young and growing portfolio. The company's founder and CEO, Wes Stoody, is a Flint native who wanted to come home. He moved back from Chicago in 2014.
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March 28, 2017Ferris building renovation in downtown Flint to get $2.5 million grant
FLINT, MI -- The state awarded a $2.5 million Michigan Strategic Fund grant to support the Flint Ferris Wheel Innovation Center and 100K Ideas in downtown Flint.
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March 3, 2017SkyPoint Ventures promotes David Ollila to president and chief innovation officer
kypoint Ventures, a Flint-based ventures firm headed by CEO/Founder Phil Hagerman and co-founder/owner Jocelyn Hagerman of Fenton Township has announced the promotion of David Ollila to president and chief innovation officer.
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February 14, 2017Flint, Michigan, looks to shake off stigmas of the past with a rising downtown
It’s a common refrain: Flint still doesn’t have clean drinking water. This outcry, a reference to the long-standing crisis over tainted water, has become shorthand for the Michigan city. After being caricatured as suffering by decades of economic fallout from a shrinking auto industry, Flint has found itself uncomfortably lodged in the national news cycle, stuck on repeat.
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February 1, 2017Jocelyn Hagerman – President, SkyPoint Ventures & CEO, Hagerman Foundation
When she was just nine years old, Jocelyn Hagerman’s grandfather took ownership of race horses. Jocelyn was fascinated. The animals had a majestic appeal and she was determined to ride them – determined to get a taste of the experience felt by the jockeys who once held their reins.
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January 27, 2017Venture company looks to turn Flint into entrepreneurial hub
FLINT, MI -- SkyPoint Ventures is working to turn Flint into an entrepreneurial hub. As construction continued on the company's Ferris Wheel building next door, dozens gathered in the newly renovated Dryden building earlier this week to talk about new ideas and upcoming changes for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Flint.
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January 23, 2017The Ferris Wheel hopes to spur investment in new ideas in Flint
Creating a meeting space for entrepreneurs, students, and investors, all under one roof. That's the idea behind a new building in downtown Flint.
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January 10, 2017See the largest business investments in Genesee County in 2016
Millions of dollars were invested in Genesee County in 2016. See the next slides for the largest investments announced throughout the year, according to a list provided by the Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce.
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January 1, 2017Flint Ferris Wheel Innovation Hub/100K Ideas
This project would not have happened without the partnership between local, public and private entities. It took the collaboration of six organizations and four separate modes of financing to secure this project and bring it to fruition. Skypoint Ventures, LLC approached us about their desire to create an innovation hub for the Flint community with a location in the heart of downtown.
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November 4, 2016Ferris building renovations update
A nearly century old building is the latest to undergo a renaissance of sorts to help revitalize downtown Flint.
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November 1, 2016The Ferris Wheel Flint is open for business
The current entrepreneurial network in Flint undoubtedly inspires local organizations and businesses to get involved. Stemming from Phil and Jocelyn Hagerman’s idea, SkyPoint Ventures’ new project, The Ferris Wheel, is a co-working space and innovation zone for professionals, freelancers and startups looking for a place to conveniently set up shop and be part of that network.
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August 15, 2016Skypoint Ventures hires David Ollila as Vice President of Innovation
A serial entrepreneur, Ollila brings years of experience as an innovator, creator and leader to the Skypoint team.
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August 12, 2016See inside downtown Flint’s Ferris Furs building as renovations begin
FLINT, MI - After it was shuttered nearly 30 years ago, one of downtown Flint's most iconic buildings is starting to see new life as renovations begin.
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July 6, 2016LaJoice properties sold!
It’s official — the downtown Fenton area properties purchased by Michael LaJoice last spring have been sold to SkyPoint Ventures, the organization owned by Phil and Jocelyn Hagerman.
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May 19, 2016New restaurant in works for historic Dryden Building
FLINT, MI – A restaurant could be coming to the ground floor of the historic Dryden Building now that work is moving forward to renovate the Capitol Theatre in downtown Flint, according to SkyPoint Ventures owner Jocelyn Hagerman.
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May 9, 2016Fenton company bringing 100 high-tech jobs to downtown Flint
Flint, Mich.(WEYI) — The Dryden Building on Saginaw Street in Flint is undergoing a major facelift, and now it's going to have a new tenant. Fenton based ISource Worldwide is tentatively scheduled to move its headquarters into the building by the end of June. ISource Worldwide Chief Executive Officer Rick Rockman says the company chose Flint despite the ongoing drinking water crisis.
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May 2, 2016iSource Worldwide aims to make Flint ‘tech town’ with 100 new jobs
FLINT, MI – A software developer's plans to bring 100 jobs to the newly renovated Dryden Building in downtown Flint are just the first steps in what some hope will be a bigger movement.
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April 25, 2016New downtown development eyed in Fenton
FENTON, MI – A new downtown development is being eyed for downtown Fenton.
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October 28, 2015Caroline Street extension set to begin next spring
The grass will be greener on the other side, at least at the corner of Silver Lake Road and LeRoy Street in downtown Fenton.
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August 3, 2015Ribbon cut on new market in Flint
FLINT (WJRT) — The ribbon was cut Monday morning at a new market in Flint. The "grab n go" lunch spot inside the Dryden Building is creating quite the buzz downtown - and helping to fill a void.
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July 1, 2015Downtown eyesore demolished — finally!
Fenton — With the control and coordination of a surgeon, Dave Parks lifts dirt and and debris from the site of the former Fenton Collision building with his excavator bucket.
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May 27, 2015Plans announced for old Beanery Building
Fenton elected officials, city workers, business owners and the media gathered today, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 4 p.m., for the announcement of the plans for properties purchased by SkyPoint Ventures, which is owned by the Hagerman family.
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May 6, 2015Hagermans buy Fenton Bean Company
The future of the old Fenton Bean Company building on North LeRoy Street in downtown Fenton has been in question for years. Its future has now been sealed with the purchase of the building by SkyPoint Ventures, LLC, a company owned by Phil and Jocelyn
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April 16, 2015Two more downtown Fenton properties purchased by Hagerman-owned venture company
FENTON, MI — Two downtown properties surrounding Fenton’s Cornerstone have been purchased by a venture company — although officials remain mum on the future surrounding those locations.
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April 15, 2015Two more downtown Fenton properties purchased by Hagerman-owned venture company
SkyPoint Ventures, a company owned by Diplomat CEO Phil Hagerman and his wife, Jocelyn, recently purchased the property at 102 W. Silver Lake Road. The purchase gives the venture company three plots of land next to Fenton's $4.7 million Cornerstone building.
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October 5, 0201Turning to innovation
In the city that came to international manufacturing prominence as one of the auto-industry’s hometowns, Flint is now recasting itself as a home for innovation. With the opening of the Ferris Wheel, Flint is staking claim as an emerging center that fosters entrepreneurial projects with an eye toward transforming the economy of Genesee County and mid-Michigan.