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Making a Difference Through Your Career

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As long as the location has a stable internet connection, you could continue with your career while making a positive contribution to those in need. Other up-and-coming (and more affordable) cities for tech careers include Raleigh, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas. Live Where You Want to Make a Change. Guide Young Minds.

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Weekend Reading on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

It also ends just as the rise of the Internet begins, so it’s the long arc of Silicon Valley is not overshadowed by the last twenty years. The next book I read was Screw the Valley: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America’s New Tech Startup Culture.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Raleigh, North Carolina. city for young families are all triggers for the flock of technology companies and university graduates to Raleigh.

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Duke’s Shoeboxed Gets $1.4M in Funding

Campus Entrepreneurship

Shoeboxed was a demo company at TechMedia’s Internet Summit in 2009. The next Internet Summit is in November in Raleigh, NC. Shoeboxed has both free and paid services. The company’s investors include Bethesda, MD-based Novak Biddle Venture Partners.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Students and Professors Try Open Innovation | Nature Publishing Group

Campus Entrepreneurship

InnoCentive, an organization based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that uses the Internet to link ‘seekers’ — client companies struggling with pressing scientific or business problems — with ‘solvers’ — more than 250,000 problem-cracking minds around the globe, InnoCentive claims.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share their Favorite Quotes

Hearpreneur

He told me that “Google and Apple were built by amateurs and Titanic was built professionals” (A quote he got from internet). There is an opportunity to build the best real estate company in Raleigh, NC and this quote keeps me going, even when there is no light at the end of the tunnel. 7 – A Fish on Land.