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What's RTP?

• strife25 15y ago
  Research Triangle Park It's the area where Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, NC are.
• deleted 15y ago
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• mindcrime 15y ago
  Strictly speaking, RTP[1] is a small area (mostly) in Durham County, NC, where a research park is located, where a lot of major technology and pharma companies, and tons of small companies, have R&D and/or manufacturing operations. Colloquially, people use "RTP" as shorthand for "The Triangle"[2] which is generally considered an area roughly defined by a triangle of lines connecting Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Or, depending on your take, connecting Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and NC State University. RTP (or "The Triangle") is a tech hub in the Southeast region, and is becoming quite a startup hotbed. But one of the limitations of this area is lack of access to early stage capital. Of all the things that hurt entrepreneurs in this area, that's probably the single most encountered problem. :-( [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle