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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Nashville

ReadWriteStart

But we'll kick things off with Nashville. The home of country music," Nashville is known for its large music and tourist industry (although the area's largest employer is actually the health-care sector). Incubating and Training for Startups and Small Businesses.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Best startup city rankings have reflected this truth for a long time. Austin, TX. Boulder, CO.

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Live From the Startup Bus – Snufulupugus Pivot (Post #2)

Up and Running

On StartupBus a team of strangers, traveling at 60mph, have about 72 hours to conceive, build, and launch a startup. We’re on the Startup Bus – Its name is Fred. There’s two guys with that description, come to think of it, but this guy I’m talking about is on his 3 rd startup bus! Chicago Startup Guy.

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“I’ll see in 2022 if I can turn The SF Minute into an actual business that’s somewhat sustainable”

Hunter Walker

Tech reporters with actual startup company experience are exactly what we need!!! There’s another company called 6 AM City that started publishing newsletters for second and third-tier cities in the southeast (think Raleigh, Asheville, and Nashville), and after raising $5 million recently, they’ve been expanding fast across the country.

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Bringing Values into Vision

The Entrepreneurial Mind

is a Nashville-based startup that is integrating the founders' commitment to the environment and the community into the mission of their company. Many entrepreneurs talk about integrating their values into the vision for a new business. But some take it one step further and actually build a business model based on their values.

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[US] [Event] Launch Tennessee’s Southland Conference To Highlight South’s Top 50 Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

California’s Silicon Valley and New York tend to hog the headlines as America’s most lauded hotbeds of innovation, but Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) wants to prove that the country’s South also features plenty of innovative startups that can challenge for dominance in the global marketplace.

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Six Tips For Startups Outside Of Traditional VC Hubs

YoungUpstarts

For m­any years, conventional wisdom held that a promising startup needed to be located in a traditional venture capital hub like Silicon Valley, San Francisco or New York to be successful. Conferences like 36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival in Nashville, Tenn., For example, if you are a health care startup, try to consider the J.P.

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