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Alternatives to Silicon Valley - Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters - USA
Alternatives to Silicon Valley - Startup Hubs and Innovation Clusters in the USA. A collection of resources about startup hubs and innovation clusters across the USA, highlighting alternatives to Silicon Valley and exploring emerging ecosystems fostering entrepreneurship and innovation
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What’s Up with Austin? - David Perell
Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live. Since I moved to town, a bunch of people have asked me, “What’s up with Austin?” This ...
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Innovation Hubs - Past, Present & Future — Investor Amnesia
*This article was originally published in collaboration with Compound as part of their new content initiative: "The Archive".* As Samuel Morse’s te...
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The formula behind San Francisco’s startup success – TechCrunch
Why has San Francisco’s startup scene generated so many hugely valuable companies over the past decade?
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What Makes a Rural Creative Hub: Innovation and the Arts - CityLab
A growing body of research shows that innovative businesses are common in rural areas, and rural innovation gets a boost from the arts.
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The Extreme Geographic Inequality of High-Tech Venture Capital - CityLab
The rest aren’t rising, and spatial inequality is getting worse.
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How Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review Built a Silicon Valley Empire
Stanford Politics - Read Andrew Granato's cover story for the November 2017 issue of Stanford Politics Magazine.
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Is Seattle the next Silicon Valley? - BBC News
Seattle is home to some of the biggest names in tech, including Amazon and Microsoft. The vibrant and laid back seaport town is also the locatio...
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College Towns Are Beginning to Emerge as U.S. Startup Hubs || CityLab
Established tech hubs continue to lead, but startup hubs are emerging in new, smaller places. The catch: Startup financing overall is on the wane.
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Doubling Down on Innovation in Indy: Announcing Techstars SportsTech Accelerator, Powered by Indy - Techstars
Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, and the SportsTech founding partners Next Level Fund, Indiana Sports Corp, NCAA ...
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These cities are finishing strong as Amazon narrows down choice for new headquarters || CNBC
While it is impossible to get into the heads of the planners at Amazon, especially Chairman and CEO Jeff Bezos, a new CNBC analysis of the retailer...
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Startup Communities Revisited — a summary of Brad Feld's book - by Ian Hathaway
It is a brief summary of Brad's book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, meant to be a refresher for those fam...
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How Big Tech Swallowed Seattle || Bloomberg
Two tech titans made billions and remade the city. Is it any better off?
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Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley - The Economist
The new geography of innovation “LIKE Florence in the Renaissance.” That is a common description of what it is like to live in Silicon Valley. A...
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Urban Vibrancy Lures High-Growth Companies—Even to Places That Aren't Strictly Urban
A new study finds that high-growth companies flock to neighborhoods that are more mixed-use and transit-accessible, whether in urban centers or sub...
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6 Rules for Better, More Inclusive Economic Development in Cities - CityLab
Urban leaders need to kick the incentive habit and take a more inclusive approach to growing local economies.
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These American Cities Are Losing the Most Brainpower — Bloomberg
Hanford, California, No. 1 on Bloomberg Brain Drain Index Boulder, Colorado, again tops Brain Concentration Index
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Nashville’s Star Rises as Midsize Cities Break Into Winners and Losers - The New York Times
Nashville and others are thriving thanks to a mix of luck, astute political choices and well-timed investments, while cities like Birmingham, Ala.,...
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These Are the 50 Best Places in America for Starting a Business - 2018 - Inc
Where should you go to start your next business, expand your company, or find the best job candidates? Here's your guidebook to the most dynamic ci...
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America's Fastest- and Slowest-Growing Cities
Looking at the population and job growth of large cities proper, rather than their metro areas, uncovers some surprises.
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Brad Feld: 5 lessons for building entrepreneurial ecosystems
Refresh Miami hosted Brad Feld. author, VC, community builder and co-founder of TechStars, for a fireside chat at TheVentureCity. Members of Miami...
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Coronavirus Will End the Golden Age for College Towns - Bloomberg Opinion
These engines of regional growth will struggle with state funding cuts, fewer foreign students and destroyed household finances.
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Hiring for Tech Jobs has Increased More than 100% in These Midwestern Cities
The Midwest may not be known for its thriving tech startup scene. But jobs data show tons of Midwestern tech companies are hiring, making the regio...
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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Raleigh: History of the Research Triangle - North Carolina
Learn about the Research Triangle from Bob Geolas, President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, who explains what the t...
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