A Pandemic Playbook for 2021
Photo: Getty Images. Illustration: Inc. Magazine Heading into 2020, the startup scene never seemed more vibrant in places outside of the coastal investment hubs of Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Colorado, for instance, attracted $2.5 billion in funding in 2019. Then the wheels came off the startup bus because of the pandemic, as businesses everywhere struggled to adjust. For Rise of the Rest (ROTR), the middle-of-America seed stage investment fund created by AOL co-founder Steve Case, there was an actual bus involved. Since 2014, ROTR, part of Case's Revolution investment...