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Mango welcomes Challenge Detroit participant, Jared Berman

While the diverse staff at Mango Languages hails from cities all over the globe, we are proud to call Detroit, Michigan our home and are thrilled to welcome Challenge Detroit participant Jared Berman to our team.

Challenge Detroit is an urban revitalization initiative aimed at bringing together 30 innovative leaders from across the country to live, work, play and give in Detroit.

Jared will be working at Mango Languages while also contributing to the Challenge Detroit initiative where he will participate in monthly team challenges and work with area non-profits to positively impact the city and region.

Please join us in welcoming Jared to Mango. You can learn more about Jared and Challenge Detroit by visiting www.challengedetroit.org.

Mango to Welcome Challenge Detroit Talent

While the Mango team hails from all over the globe, we are proud to call Detroit, Michigan home.

Mango is excited to be involved in Challenge Detroit, an effort aimed at attracting and retaining young, innovative talent in our home town! Out of over 900 applicants, 30 young professionals will be chosen to live, work, socialize and give back in the city of Detroit.

We are excited to welcome a lucky candidate to the Mango team in September!

Check out this innovative program that is bringing young, eager, energetic and innovative talent to Detroit:

You can see the candidates and learn more about this program at ChallengeDetroit.org.

Honored Guests at the Mango Grove

We were thrilled to welcome a distinguished delegation of students and professors from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for an inside look at a growing software company in metro Detroit.

Mango Languages CEO Jason Teshuba spoke on the relationship between the technological progress being made in metro Detroit and that in Israel:

“People don’t think of metro Detroit as a center for technology and digital entrepreneurship, but we’re seeing it happen more and more as companies like Mango grow and expand. Much of our success mirrors what’s happening in Israel, in large part because of the incredible work done at the Technion. We hope that this cultural exchange continues to strengthen the bonds between those pushing the boundaries of technology around the world.”

The students; Marina Toger (architecture) and Guy Bershansky (engineering and medicine), along with Professor Zalman Palmor (the Technion’s deputy executive vice president for academic affairs); also shared their experiences about the value of their world-class educations and the vital role public universities can play as incubators for technology and business.

Start Up Weekend – Detroit

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of speaking to young entrepreneurs at Start Up Weekend in Detroit.   There were about 20 potential business ideas that were pitched on the first day, and the field was narrowed down to about 8 ideas through a voting process.  A group was formed for each of the selected ideas with the goal of creating a business plan to take the idea to the next level.   To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much because there was such a short period of time for the whole idea to be fleshed out and presented.  However there were two groups I talked to in more detail…I was very impressed and thought the groups and the ideas had some real potential.

Start Up Weekend is a fairly new event in Detroit, I can see this becoming much larger in the next few years.  It’s exactly what Michigan needs right now!

Oh Canada

Working for a company in the Detroit area means we are neighbors with Canada.  We can look across the Detroit River and see Windsor (it is actually south Detroit – if you know the song, which is weird).

I remember as a little girl going across the bridge or through the tunnel and being able to spend my money on candy and get way more for my buck due to the exchange rate.  Going to Canada is a big part of our culture because it is so accessible.  We actually drive through Canada to get to New York.   Every year we share our Independence Day with Windsor and have an awesome spectacle of fire works!

We love Canada. It is a geographically vast and ethnically diverse country.  Canadian culture has also been greatly influenced by immigration from all over the world.  The Vancouver Olympics are certainly a great way to see how welcoming they are.

Canada’s two official languages are English and French.  Both have equal status in federal courts, Parliament, and in all federal institutions.

According to Wikipedia: English and French are the mother tongues of 59.7% and 23.2% of the population respectively, and the languages most spoken at home by 68.3% and 22.3% of the population respectively.  98.5% of Canadians speak English or French (67.5% speak English only, 13.3% speak French only, and 17.7% speak both).

Although more than 85% of French-speaking Canadians live in Quebec (French is the official language there), there are substantial Francophone populations in Ontario, Alberta, and southern Manitoba. Ontario has the largest French-speaking population outside Quebec.

Have you been to Canada? Share your experience?

Why We Call Detroit Home – Time Magazine Blog Post

Recently we were honored to be in Time Magazine on their Detroit Blog. This year Time has dedicated staff and article space to Detroit. They have a reporter living here for a year to see what this city is really about. We are excited to have them here as they will see Detroit for more than the sensationalized murders, run down factories and tough times. We wanted to share our view of this wonderful city and Time let us. Click here to read our version of the Detroit story.

Mango in the News!

We were highlighted on the evening local news last night. Detroit has seen a lot of hits lately and we are so excited to be located in this vibrant region.

Click here to take a look at the clip.

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