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Progress of Bitcoin in North Carolina

The Startup Magazine

The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The Bitcoin trading platform Coinbase has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of North Carolina’s progress. Coinbase is a digital currency exchange that allows users to buy and sell bitcoins.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012. Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? Was it hard to raise the fund?

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Make School is Rethinking College to Diversify the Tech Workforce

SiliconHills

Jeremy Rossmann, co-founder of Make School, a computer science and software engineering school, based in San Francisco is disrupting higher education. Rossmann founded Make School in 2012 with his high school friend, Ashu Desai. Rossmann dropped out of MIT and […].

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

Both Sides of the Table

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. larger than the San Francisco Bay Area, whom we also love :)) and also the Northern capital of Latin America. But this post is about the broader context of LA.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco.

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The 4 Best Cities In America For Startups

YoungUpstarts

San Francisco is already well publicized. Since 2012, the city has had an average growth of 21% in the business sector, with 2015 showing growth of 38% alone. With luck, we might even make some money doing it. There is just one problem – you can’t do it alone. And the tech industry is currently a hot choice for many investors.

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