Two things are evident after reading Endeavor’s Detroit office’s assessment report of metro Detroit’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: the region has lost a lot of jobs since the Great Recession and metro Detroit’s best chance to get them back come from gazelles, i.e. young, fast-growing companies.
Gazelles, also known as scaleups, are small businesses that with tremendous growth potential. They traditionally grow from a couple of employees to a staff of a few dozen people in a matter of months. These are the companies that attract large sums of venture capital investment and make headlines as the new darlings of the local business world.