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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

Additionally, the tech startup community has grown so quickly that Utah has a new nickname: The Silicon Slopes. For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Austin in particular is a technological and cultural hub.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.) I looked around the room thinking I’d see the faces of the engineers in the ESL M-4 vault, but these were different people. The bill had come due. VP of Sales? Wait a minute.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. I’m incredibly excited that every day I have the opportunity to use my tech background to make it easier and more affordable for the 35 million Americans with hearing loss to receive high quality, audiologist-backed hearing care. So, I started doing that.