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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – A new report from Crunchbase finds that North Carolina is the state with the second-highest increase, on a percentage basis, in venture capital invested in startup companies, behind Michigan, between 2016 and 2020. According to the data from Crunchbase, North Carolina firms brought in $4.1 billion in 2020, compared to $800 million in 2016, which is nearly a 410 percent increase. Of course, Epic Games raised $1.5 billion in 2020 in one mega-round, and AvidXchange raise...

How to Find Tomorrows Silicon Valleys Mon, May 24 Sun, May 23 Thu, May 20 Wed, May 19 PREVIOUSNEXT Monday, May 24, 2021 I had only recently moved back to my home state of Georgia this year when I met them: the Silicon Valley transplants. The three of them were an unlikely trio of former tech workers who had moved from Berkeley, California, to Atlanta after their startup was acquired. They brought with them a desire to build an intentional community here . . . where the tea is sw...

An abrupt landing to a turbulent trip comes with a familiar message: Buying into the content business is hard.

In AT&T’s WarnerMedia spinoff, a Hollywood outsider again learns a tough lesson Steven Zeitchik © Ronald Martinez/Getty Images A man walks with an umbrella outside of AT&T corporate headquarters in Dallas. The executive from outside Hollywood had a strong reason his company should pay billions to acquire an entertainment giant. Popular Searches Distribution and content, he said, “have been developing simultaneously — they are like wheels of the same car.” The exe...

John Stankey, CEO of AT&T, was talking about the success of Godzilla vs. Kong monster movies last month, taking the box office and taking viewers to t

Utah Business Recyclops announces the closing of a $3 million seed investment led by Lerer Hippeau and The Clorox Company. Other key investors include Utah-based Kickstart and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, part of AOL founder and prolific investor Steve Case’s DC-based venture capital firm Revolution that invests in seed and early-stage companies. Recyclops’ mission is to make recycling accessible and sustainable for all by bringing it to areas where it doesn’t cur...

New DEED commissioner and former Google executive wants to encourage innovation in Minnesota Steve Groves goals include encouraging innovation and addressing economic inequalities.  March 24, 2019 — 2:21pm Text size Copy shortlink: Steve Grove is a collaborative kind of guy. Even the Minnesota state tattoo on his rib cage was a group effort. His dad, brother and brother-in-law sport the same one. "I never thought Id get a tattoo. B...

You can be drawn to this Virginia producer by the view or the tasting room, or you can come simply for the wine Updated 12:22 AM; Today 12:13 AM Early Mountain Vineyards in Madison, Virginia, is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays. Its a little more than a three-hour drive from Harrisburg. Facebook Share Early Mountain Vineyards has become one of the must-see wineries in a state where there is an increasing number of them. Located in Madison, Virginia, the winery is a lit...

Economy, finance, and budgets Even as vaccination increases across the United States and an end to the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic seems in sight, the economic, fiscal, political, and geographic fallout from the virus cannot be overstated: a massive public health crisis that left more than half a million Americans dead, an economic catastrophe that caused record unemployment and small-business closures, and a seismic political event that surely helped tip the presidential election. The pan...

May 5, 2021 at 9:25AM Remember Quora? It is a question-and-answer website that exploded in popularity in the 2010s -- thanks to its high-profile users, including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL. Quoras founders envisioned a human-powered knowledge engine, where users could type in any question and get a high-quality answer from an expert.  At first, Quora grew at an astounding rate. It was so popular that Alphabets Google and Facebook ...