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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. With its moderate climate and the renowned Research Triangle of Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham, it is not surprising that North Carolina is one of the fastest growing states in the country.

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The National Day of Civic Hacking

Feld Thoughts

The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society. On Saturday, NREL engineers will join the local civic hackers too.

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The Storm-Chasing Geologist Whos Fixing SalesTec

Hearpreneur

He approached me one day when I was visiting him at home (I was still working at my day job in San Francisco as a mobile engineer for Climate Corp). After that point, I quit my job in early 2016 to take the venture full-time, and have grown the company since to have 2 offices, in Raleigh and NYC. I was just trying to help my dad out.

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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

YoungUpstarts

A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind. Marks is the Founder and Managing Partner of High Rock Partners , a boutique Strategic and M&A advisory firm in Raleigh, NC, and the lead author of” Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “

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Startup Lessons Learned

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Students and Professors Try Open Innovation | Nature Publishing Group

Campus Entrepreneurship

Chris Wilmer, a PhD student in chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, solved a challenge that involved the lack of access to clean water in poor villages of developing countries. Later Jimenez explains, Scientists who moonlight as solvers can use novel means to explore long-standing problems.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Luckily while I was teaching classes at headquarters, Zilog’s field application engineers (the technical engineers working alongside our salesmen) would work side-by-side with our large customers as they designed their systems with our chips. The VP of Sales gave me a funny look and just moved on with the agenda. VP of Sales?