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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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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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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). Who are the best startup consultants in Silicon Valley?… Rhymes with a Type of Pasta.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners. After more than eight years?—?they’ve

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Q3 2012 VC Fundraising Data and Conclusions

ithacaVC

. - If one considers NEA a Silicon Valley firm (I know they are headquartered in Baltimore but they have a very large and successful west coast practice), the top five funds raised are in San Francisco and represented 55% of the capital raised. The average size of fund raised in 3Q12 was $94M, although the median was $160M.

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Let Nature take its Course

The Entrepreneurial Mind

We have a new seed fund here in Nashville called JumpStart Foundry. And this did eventually lead to real economic growth with the few dot.com's that actually had sustainable business models (that means "profits" for those of you in Silicon Valley). We are hosting the meetings of this group at Belmont University.

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19 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

I additionally want to expand Cinqe into Silicon Valley and welcome new clients within and surrounding that area. We just hired more people in our Los Angeles office and just opened Nashville, so we’re excited to grow the team and look forward to larger rooms when we really need to meet as a company and put our heads together.