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Silicon Prairie now prime startup territory

Origianl post by Joe McKendrick via smartplanet Earlier this month, we reported on the emergence of Kansas City’s “Startup Village,” spurred by the Google Fiber broadband project. However, there may be more at work than Google’s intervention: there are many other tech hotspots are springing up across the US Midwest, from Iowa to Nebraska. As observed by The New […]

Angels earn their wings

Original post by Josh Pichler via CINCINAT.com Twelve years ago, the Queen City Angels were five guys who would meet at restaurants to talk about investing in local startups and who, group chairman Tony Shipley jokes, hadn’t gotten the memo that the dot-com bubble was about to burst. Now three funds and 54 diverse companies later, the validation-stage […]

Be Confident in the People you Hire

Be Confident in the People you Hire

Original post by s.co The job market is certainly rough right now and it is important for employers to ensure that they are hiring well-rounded and qualified candidates. Today’s featured startup, JobEscrow, is recruiting insurance for employers. With JobEscrow, employers list their jobs and recruiters take the task of finding the perfect person to match the position […]

Simon Says: Tour the Top 10 Startup Cities in the U.S.

Original post by Marissa Feinberg via FORBES Simon Walker is in the middle of whirring about the top 10 startup cities in America in order to answer every entrepreneurs’ burning-est question:Where is the grass greenest? Even the most brilliant ideas and talented teams need rich, fertile ground to grow. So what city has the best coworking spaces? […]