{"id":106,"date":"2010-12-03T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=106"},"modified":"2010-12-03T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:49:07","slug":"why-you-should-start-a-company-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Start a Company in&#8230; Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #f3f3f3\" color=\"#474747\">Laura Rich, from Fast Company, has been doing a virtual road trip of sorts to the nation&#8217;s technology hubs, asking people in those communities to explain what makes the places tick. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #f3f3f3\" color=\"#474747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" alt=\"Seattle\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2691\/4303428251_3f1d06e79c.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"302\" \/><\/font><font style=\"background-color: #f3f3f3\" color=\"#474747\">     <br \/>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/article\/why-you-should-start-company-seattle\">her article<\/a> about Seattle she describes a number of reasons why this city is no longer only the backyard of Microsoft, but a location that has an \u201cecosystem churning with energy\u201d \u2013 access to capital, talent, frontier spirit, and a great community that benefits from the presence and investments of Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, Clearwire, Expedia, Nintendo US, now the biotech and many new technology startups\u2026.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #f3f3f3\" color=\"#474747\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #f3f3f3\" color=\"#474747\">PS if they tell you that it always rains in Seattle, it is definitely not that bad; but then\u2026 no surprises Seattle has a big role in the Cloud Computing! <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. Laura Rich, from Fast Company, has been doing a virtual road trip of sorts to the nation&#8217;s technology hubs, asking people in those communities to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=106\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,8,24,25,26],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-landing","tag-it","tag-localization","tag-seattle","tag-startups","tag-technology-hubs","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}