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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Raleigh, North Carolina. Malmö, Sweden.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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[US] [Event] Launch Tennessee’s Southland Conference To Highlight South’s Top 50 Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

California’s Silicon Valley and New York tend to hog the headlines as America’s most lauded hotbeds of innovation, but Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) wants to prove that the country’s South also features plenty of innovative startups that can challenge for dominance in the global marketplace.

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The Pros and Cons of IT Outsourcing: Globally, Nationally and Locally

ReadWriteStart

Turns out that many factors can make global outsourcing more difficult and expensive than it appears to be at first glance. In places like Georgia, North Carolina and Arkansas, skilled tech workers can be found for a fraction of what you’d pay in Silicon Valley or New York, according to Rural Sourcing Inc.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

So I reached a point in my career as a CMO for global high tech companies where I wanted to make a change and start a company that would apply all the marketing lessons I had learned to helping small local businesses. I had seen enough of large global companies and envied the way they had established their presence and their brand.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

Although I was studying physics, I would pick up the Financial Times every day and start reading the business section about Silicon Valley. Thanks to Mike Swigunski, Global Career ! #10- Growing up in rural North Carolina’s Piedmont region, I knew hunger, cold, sweat and tears from parental abandonment and poverty.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland. In Silicon Valley, they say there is no bubble, just gas pains at the birth of a brave new world. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?