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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. With its concentrated mix of start-ups, established businesses, and venture capital, Boulder has all of the elements to fuel sustainable economic growth. Indianapolis, IN. Las Vegas, NV. San Jose, CA.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 Deflationary Economics now favors us.

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Grocery’s True Competition

YoungUpstarts

Take a look at these two ways the grocery industry can come together to compete against these hidden competitors: Tap venture capital investors to help with innovation. If the grocery industry leverages venture capital-backed companies, they will be able to introduce cutting-edge services just as quickly as Amazon.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. 20 years ago could you have imagined ExactTarget becoming a multi-billion company in Indianapolis?

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

It’s one that many venture capital–funded startups deploy. For example, it’s financially feasible to build a competing motor speedway in Indianapolis. For a network effect to take hold, the rate of growth for costs must stay constant as user growth accelerates. Image source ). The network effect is a powerful moat.