Jordyn Grzelewski

Senior Enterprise Reporter, Tech

Jordyn is a senior enterprise tech reporter focusing on transportation for Morning Brew Inc. She previously covered the automotive industry for The Detroit News. Prior to that, she worked at The Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Youngstown Vindicator.

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Starting Your Business

How to tell if your scientific breakthrough can be a viable business

Experts agreed on one key requirement for turning a scientific innovation into a product: solving a customer problem.

Jordyn Grzelewski
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Growing Your Business

Brooklyn startup shares road map for winning an NYC contract

Applying to build the city’s permanent curbside EV charging network was the easy part, according to It’s Electric’s founders.

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Starting Your Business

Disability tech founders face resource constraints. That’s changing

A guide to incubators, startup accelerators, and VC firms focused on disabled founders and assistive tech.

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Starting Your Business

Pre-revenue funding 101

What steps entrepreneurs should take before seeking funding, weighing bootstrapping against VC funding, and other considerations for early-stage founders.

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Growing Your Business

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on Rivian’s make-or-break moment

Scaringe talks about stepping back and letting Rivian’s “really well-operating teams” take the lead.

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Growing Your Business

Humble Robotics founder credits his human network for his AV startup's success

Humble emerged from stealth in April after locking in a $24 million seed funding round.

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Growing Your Business

How these founders are tackling Detroit’s freight traffic

Funding from the Toyota Mobility Foundation is helping three founders scale their businesses.

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Starting Your Business

How a pandemic walk and a Talking Heads song sparked the idea for It’s Electric

Before officially founding the Brooklyn-based curbside EV charging company, co-founder Tiya Gordon liked to think of it as a project, not a startup.

Jordyn Grzelewski
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Starting Your Business

Michigan startup Adrenaline Interactive aims to transform in-game advertising

CEO and co-founder Max Albert didn’t expect to work in the ad tech space, but a lifelong passion for gaming led him there.

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Growing Your Business

Jim Gibbs, co-founder and CEO of Meter Feeder, eyes AV-driven expansion

Gibbs’s journey to founder started when he learned to write software as a child.

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