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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte. It was there that I was placed with a roommate named Raj Choudhury , a skinny British kid who was immediately the most interesting person I had ever met. Raj, thanks for everything. Love you, buddy.

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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

Up and Running

South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development: Start Your Business. Small Business Development Center Michigan. Oklahoma Small Business Development Center. Nebraska Department of Economic Development: Starting a Business. Community Development Resources Nebraska. Charlotte, NC. StartGarden.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

My name is Richard Simms and, I am a Cofounder of Tech Talent South. Our mission at TTS is to develop more tech talent in the South through beginner-focused programs teaching web development and computer programming. We actually met taking some web development classes in Chicago. Who are you and what do you do?

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6 Ways To Improve The Checkout Experience

YoungUpstarts

Disable auto-correct for name fields and provide numeric keyboards for phone and credit card information. Use field-level analytics to track in which fields (name field, address field 1, address field 2, etc.) Design and Navigation. Mobile customers expect a checkout experience that is user-friendly and seamless. customers drop off.

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Entrepreneur Builds on Technology Platform to Power the Barbershop Industry

Hearpreneur

I got a job as a software developer at Wells Fargo, and a few months later moved to Charlotte, NC. Now these are problems that have persisted throughout the industry over the years, but now that I had developed the technical skills necessary I saw an opportunity to bring change to an antiquated industry.

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Best Locations In The US For A Tech Startup

YoungUpstarts

If you believe that your idea is worth the effort of putting together a business plan and going through the development and funding process, you may have a potentially lucrative tech startup. The South Florida region is not typically known as a technological center; nonetheless, this is where IBM developed its early PC prototypes.

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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

There are three principal ways to develop a mobile solution: native code, hybrid mobile app, mobile Web app. Developing an application in HTML5 is a way to leverage code across multiple platforms , rather than having to write the entire application from scratch for each platform. Advertisement.