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Why I finally left the Bay Area to work at a Midwest startup
After spending eight amazing years in the Bay Area, my wife and I decided to move back to Minnesota to…
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Chicago’s G2 Crowd, a Yelp for business software, raises $55 million (updated)
G2 Crowd, a peer-to-peer review site for business apps and software, today announced that it has raised a $55 million…
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Dropbox competitor Egnyte gets $75 million from Goldman Sachs
Five years after it last raised venture capital financing, enterprise cloud storage company Egnyte announced today that it has raised…
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Heartland Tech Weekly: What the rise of remote work means for second-tier startup hubs
The article in question was a feature on InVision, a seven-year-old software company whose 700 employees all work remotely. The Bay Area…
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VCs await regulatory clarity on Opportunity Zones, the latest tactic to draw capital to the Heartland
It’s an oft-cited statistic that 75 percent of venture capital in the U.S. goes to just three states: New York,…
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Improving tech education doesn’t start with tech
Automation is stripping away jobs from entire industries in the United States — and the pace of job loss is…
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Columbus’ Root now valued at $1 billion for its mobile data-driven car insurance
The Midwest can now call itself home to another member of the unicorn club. Columbus, Ohio car insurance startup Root…
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AI and automation in the heartland: What it means for talent (VB Live)
There are two Americas. The first, the rich America of the coasts, is where the majority of venture capital has…
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