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Progress of Bitcoin in North Carolina

The Startup Magazine

For example, BitPay, one of the largest cryptocurrency payment processors in the world, is headquartered in Raleigh. Cryptocurrency has helped to attract businesses and entrepreneurs to the state and has also helped to boost the state’s economy. And last year, the first Bitcoin ATM was installed in Charlotte.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. Did you grow up thinking you’d be an entrepreneur? Right now, we’re running sessions in Raleigh and Asheville, in addition to Charlotte and Atlanta. We already have!

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Business Modeling is Process, not an Event

The Entrepreneurial Mind

While a business plan may be important to secure financing, a business model is what will guide the entrepreneur through the inevitable trial and error of finding the best fit in the market. Changes that result from forces such as technology advancement, demographic trends and new customer preferences can all require adjustments.

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Austin’s secret sauce… it’s the WHY

Austin Startup

Rendering of the amphitheater at the new Waterloo Park opening soon in downtown Austin, at the convergence of our technology, medical school and arts districts. After an exhaustive search, they narrowed it down to three finalist cities: Austin, Boston and Raleigh. What about Austin is drawing people in and keeping them here?

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands. Pune, India?.

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Students and Professors Try Open Innovation | Nature Publishing Group

Campus Entrepreneurship

The bank would lend phones to a local entrepreneur in a poor village, who would pay back the loan by charging others in the village to use a phone. Later Jimenez explains, Scientists who moonlight as solvers can use novel means to explore long-standing problems. It was a profitable and self-sustaining model. Check out StartUp Mason.

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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.) Burnout can turn productive employees into emotional zombies and destroy careers. Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public.