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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. This welcoming attitude has led to a number of Bitcoin-related businesses popping up in North Carolina. And last year, the first Bitcoin ATM was installed in Charlotte.

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

YoungUpstarts

Think of financing an acquisition as an exercise with two parts that work in concert: 1) structuring a desired deal with a suitable target and 2) obtaining the funding. Think about the whole capital structure and the impact to the various layers of financing. Structuring the Desired Deal. 1+1=2 is still a positive outcome.

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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. When we expanded our health-care business from Raleigh into Charlotte, N.C., I personally learned this lesson the hard way.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Trading and finance. North Carolina, Raleigh. Because big companies can have so many products released, it would be impossible for all of the products to be tested individually. This is where statistics come into play and make a role for a statistician career. They are used in order to speed up this process. California, San Francisco.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Raleigh, North Carolina. city for young families are all triggers for the flock of technology companies and university graduates to Raleigh. Over the past two decades, Raleigh has experienced the third-highest job growth and second-highest population increase in the country. research parks pioneering in IT and biotechnology.

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Duke’s Shoeboxed Gets $1.4M in Funding

Campus Entrepreneurship

million in financing. The next Internet Summit is in November in Raleigh, NC. Duke University born Shoeboxed (an online service for managing receipts) was profiled in the WSJ as a must have for entrepreneurs recently. The company, created by Taylor Mingos while an undergrad at Duke, has also raised $1.4 has raised $1.43

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After getting laid off from a job back in 2008, I decided I would put all my passions together and become a personal finance journalist. The company has also grown from one Atlanta-based office to four offices in Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, and Detroit. After several rejections, a friend told me that you could actually just start a blog.