Blog: Inner City 100
After Boost from ICCC, TerraCycle Continues to Grow Sales and Impact
TerraCycle is on top of the world. The company, founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky in his Princeton dorm room, now operates in 20 countries across the world and runs programs in cities across the U.S., with 60 million people now participating in the company’s programs. Read More
Small Business Week Reminds Us: Small Businesses Have a Big Impact
For over two decades, urban businesses have been the primary vehicle to achieve ICIC’s mission on the ground. Read More
#CityCloseUp: Despite Struggles, Business Success and Reinvestment Shape Detroit
Last September at ICIC’s Inner City Economic Summit in Detroit, participants gained a nuanced glimpse of Detroit’s struggles and its strengths. Read More
Detroit CEOs Discuss Strategies for Balancing Company Growth with Core Values
Business can be a balancing act. And for three of Detroit’s inner city CEOs, success has come with the ability to juggle two seemingly opposite forces: change and consistency. Read More
Firmly Grounded in Detroit, FutureNet CEO Thinks Globally
Trained as a civil engineer in his home state of Gujarat, India, Mehta moved to the United States to pursue his master’s degree and the chance to combine his engineering skills with his entrepreneurial interests. Read More