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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. For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Austin in particular is a technological and cultural hub.

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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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The National Day of Civic Hacking

Feld Thoughts

To accelerate that program, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have created a national event to leverage technology and open data to strengthen our democracy in the United States. Government government hackathon open data rally' The open data movement is great for business, but is also great for us as citizens.

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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. Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. What about Austin is drawing people in and keeping them here?

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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. .