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

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., Austin, TX.

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CEO Behind Multi-Million Dollar Escape Room Business

Hearpreneur

He opened the first of many PanIQ Escape Rooms in Hollywood, California, and today, they have locations in San Jose, Phoenix, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and many more. How did you come up with your business name? I normally spend weeks on finding the best name for my companies. I don’t have one.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.”

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). The firm, (did I mention that the name rhymes with a type of pasta?) We are in Nashville which is not tech friendly.

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New Microfund Launched

The Entrepreneurial Mind

There is a new source of start-up capital in Nashville. Traditional venture capital funds require investments to be at least $1-5 million in size. This amount of capital is often much more than an entrepreneur can effectively utilize at the very early-stage of concept development.