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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. The government supports small business owners with popular incentive programs and offers many training and networking programs. Government is a large employer—given the state’s proximity to Washington, D.C.—and

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce, connecting local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. We announced three new investments this quarter: We led DemandStar ’s $2 million seed round. You can read more about why we’re excited in our announcement post.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Statistics have been vital to the way our governments have provided their citizens with information on the pandemic. They make the rules that govern everything we do day to day. It may come as no surprise that the most common employer of statistics students is usually the government. North Carolina, Raleigh. New Jersey.

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The National Day of Civic Hacking

Feld Thoughts

The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society. Government government hackathon open data rally'

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Austin’s secret sauce… it’s the WHY

Austin Startup

Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. After an exhaustive search, they narrowed it down to three finalist cities: Austin, Boston and Raleigh. There will be some big winners who attract more and higher quality talent than others. Everyone comes for different reasons.

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Weekend Reading on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

Timothy Sprinkle interviewed me early in his process and then set off on an almost one year trip across the US where he spent real time in Detroit, New York, Las Vegas, Austin, Kansas City, Raleigh-Durham, and Boulder.

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See. Click. Fund.

Bryce Dot VC

Yesterday, the City Council in Raleigh North Carolina voted down a proposal to begin testing a new service designed by one of our portfolio companies, SeeClickFix. The opportunity for this new service emerged out of SeeClickFix’s core business- reporting and routing non-emergency problems to city government officials for repair. .