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With a bus and a checkbook, Steve Case tries to remap American entrepreneurship
April 4, 2015 /
Case has spent much of the past year mounting a grass-roots campaign to highlight and accelerate the growth of start-up communities in pockets of the country not generally known — at least, not anymore — for producing tomorrow’s next big company. Dubbed the Rise of the Rest tour, Case and a small team have zigzagged across Middle America, holding business pitch competitions in nine cities and leaving behind more than $1 million in funding.
"There are interesting things happening in these cities," he said, "and by visiting, we just wanted to throw a little kerosene on the fire and take things to the next level."
By J.D. Harrison
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