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Entrepreneurship Flowers Far Away from Silicon Valley
- mindcrime 14y agoThere's just a little bit of entrepreneurship going on in North Carolina as well.[1][2][3] Despite the (mostly invalid, out-of-date, and or plain wrong) stereotypes about the South, the RTP area is becoming quite a little hotbed of entrepreneurial activity. With 3 significant research universities (UNC-CH, NCSU, Duke) located within a few miles of each other, and a workforce augmented by people who moved here to work for IBM, Cisco, EMC, GlaxoSmithKline, etc., etc., there is some serious talent available here. Historically, what was missing here was the "entrepreneurial culture" and convenient access to seed stage capital. The first of those two factors has been changing rapidly in the past couple of years, and the second - while still a problem - has been somewhat mitigated by the emergence of Triangle Startup Factory[4] and at least one new angel group in the area. And David and Jason from Southern Capitol Ventures are always working to help entrepreneurs in this area in connecting with other investors, including ones from outside of NC. They're doing a seed stage funding related event[5] at the end of this month, for example. So, yeah, definitely add NC to the list of "not silicon valley" places where entrepreneurship is blooming. [1]: http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/startup+directory/8880 http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/startup+direct... [2]: http://www.triangltechtalk.com http://www.triangltechtalk.com [3]: http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/11300999/ http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/... [4]: http://www.trianglestartupfactory.com http://www.trianglestartupfactory.com [5]: http://eseriesjuly.eventbrite.com/ http://eseriesjuly.eventbrite.com/