Best place to live in the U.S.? Raleigh ranks 14th, study finds
A new analysis of more than 2,300 U.S. cities ranked Raleigh the 14th best place to live. Where do other NC cities stack up?
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Asheville
Asheville, Charlotte, Wilmington among top 15 cities for tech talent growth; Triangle is No. 34
An analysis from LinkedIn finds that Asheville ranks among the top 7 metros in the U.S. for growth of tech talent since 2019. The Triangle is 34th.
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Configo Health to relocate to Asheville, raises $2M for growth in Western NC
Configo Health will relocate to Asheville, following the analytics benchmarking company’s $2 million fundraising round, with plans for growth.
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Study: Raleigh ranks 12th, Durham 25th, among 1,000+ cities as a best place to live
Raleigh is ranked among the top cities in America, according to a new study that ranked Raleigh at #12 of more than 1,000 qualifying cities. Asheville came in ranked 19th, and Durham ranked 25th.
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Asheville looks to balance competing interests on Airbnb front
Like other cities across the country with a strong tourism flavor, Asheville is now coming to grips with the relatively new phenomenon of Airbnb and other short-term rental, sharing-economy platforms.
Read MoreThe Collider unveils educational series to support western NC startups
Previewing The Collider’s summer lunch and learn series, designed to equip Asheville and Western North Carolina climate startups with business development insights and resources.
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Groups aim to remake Asheville as ‘The Climate City,’ plan climate-related events
Asheville could become known as “The Climate City” if organizers of two upcoming events are successful in their strategy.
Read MoreAsheville Salesforce Innovator’s Journey, from Bootstrapping to Pitching ‘Sharks’
First-time pitches to investors are rightly famous for inducing jitters. These pitches usually take place early in the startup journey, but that wasn’t the case for Tal Frankfurt, an Asheville founder presenting his latest startup at the 2016 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco earlier this month. The new venture,...
Read MoreTriangle Startup: Five Years Into a 20-Year Plan
Just over five years ago, I held the first official (as in not a test run) ExitEvent Startup Social. A year after that, I started writing content three times a week under the ExitEvent byline. A year after that, I was negotiating my own exit from ExitEvent, assured that ExitEvent’s future would be bright. Today, nearly three years after that exit, I’m pretty thrilled with how far the Triangle startup scene has come. Four years ago I was asking how Raleigh was going to play with Durham. Three years ago I was asking if Chapel Hill was ever...
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