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Startups Have New Options for Millions of Dollars in 'Seed' Cash
August 20, 2013 | San Jose Mercury News
Will Davis and Evan Baehr, co-founders of an Austin, Texas, tech company called Outbox, saw how tight the venture capital business has gotten when they went looking for money a few months back. When they'd first raised funds two years ago, Silicon Valley investors had been eager to deal. Then Facebook's IPO flop popped that bubble. But aspiring Zucks are in luck: Entrepreneurs have a growing number of alternatives
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Creative Firms Have Designs on Detroit's Downtown
August 20, 2013 | Detroit News
As Detroit reinvents itself, a wave of creative companies — graphic design and film production studios, ad agencies and PR firms — is setting up shop downtown, bringing fresh ideas and a colorful perspective to a city that’s lacked such a wealth of artistic enterprises for a long time. “The creative class is the engine that brings rebirth to the places that need it,” said Tim Smith, CEO of Skidmore.
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Columbus as a Tech Magnet Has Strong Draw
August 25, 2013 | Columbus Dispatch
It took more than Battelle. It took more than CompuServe. It took time and the lure of money and a helping hand. But, undeniably, Columbus is quietly becoming a tech-company magnet. Just a decade ago, “If you were an entrepreneur, you had to figure it out on your own,” said Victor Thorne, managing director of strategic development at Columbus 2020, this area’s economic-development agency.
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