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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. Right now, we’re running sessions in Raleigh and Asheville, in addition to Charlotte and Atlanta. So that begs the question, what happens when you open up in a 3rd city? We already have!

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“I’ll see in 2022 if I can turn The SF Minute into an actual business that’s somewhat sustainable”

Hunter Walker

I recently had the chance to ask Five Questions of Nick Bastone , its founder and main author. So when The SF Minute started, I was really excited and it’s been a fun collection of serious and not-so-serious SF stories, links and weekend events calendars. Here they are! Hunter Walk: Ok, I read SF Minute every weekday.

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5 Cities for Ambitious Women in Business in 2020 and Beyond

Austin Startup

Raleigh, North Carolina Following closely in second is North Carolina’s Raleigh, thanks to a solid all-round performance. Raleigh’s economic growth (56% in the 2010s) has been noticed by the wider population. With a greater economy brings more job opportunities in the future. city over the next ten years.

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The Storm-Chasing Geologist Whos Fixing SalesTec

Hearpreneur

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. If you’re someone that tends to have a bit of an ego, you surely won’t have one after becoming a founder. 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

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services. by Kenneth H.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Research Triangle

ReadWriteStart

But the concentration of tech research and development extends beyond the bounds of just the research park itself, and the surrounding Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary, North Carolina metro areas are commonly labeled together as the Research Triangle, or "The Triangle.".