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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. Right now, we’re running sessions in Raleigh and Asheville, in addition to Charlotte and Atlanta. So that begs the question, what happens when you open up in a 3rd city? We already have!

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Austin’s secret sauce… it’s the WHY

Austin Startup

Planting roots I was recently talking with someone who moved here from Silicon Valley and he pointed out something that really resonated with me. Silicon Valley is a transitional home for many who are not born there and don’t retire there. It’s a place where people go when they aspire for more. Why did Austin win out?

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Weekend Reading on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.”

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The Storm-Chasing Geologist Whos Fixing SalesTec

Hearpreneur

But his interests turned when he returned home from Silicon Valley in 2015, and saw his field sales manager father wasting hours making sense of the data between a hundred Excel sheets. After that point, I quit my job in early 2016 to take the venture full-time, and have grown the company since to have 2 offices, in Raleigh and NYC.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN

Austin Startup

10: Silicon Valley Bank?—?New 23: Raleigh, NC Sept. 9: Silicon Valley, CA Oct. RSVP here Sept. 6: Houston, TX?—? RSVP here Sept. New York City, NY Sept. 10: Techstars New York?—?New New York City, NY?—? RSVP here Sept. 11: Startup Week?—?Washington Washington D.C. 18: Startup Week?—?Denver, Denver, CO?—?

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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. 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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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. The bill had come due.