YOU'VE GOT MAIL: AOL co-founder toured startups across the nation — here's what he learned
AOL co-founder Stever Case discusses his new book 'The Rise of the Rest' highlighting America's new startup hubs on 'The Claman Countdownhas traversed the U.S. on bus tours visiting cities outside the traditional tech-centered hubs in search of innovators and entrepreneurs to back through his D.C.-based investment firm, Revolution.
He found a lot of them. So many that some other big names in business joined his mission, and he has written a book about the experience titled "The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are building the new American dream."Revolution launched two $150M Rise of the Rest Seed Funds to invest in seed stage companies between the coasts .
Case says the pandemic served as an accelerant to what he sees as a tipping point in terms of how people think about remote work and flexibility, and at the same time, venture capitalists realized they could have pitch meetings with entrepreneurs outside their own backyards. Steve Case awarding funds to a startup in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a"Rise of the Rest" bus tour.
This new era of people being able to work from anywhere also has the potential to end the "brain drain" that occurs when skilled workers or entrepreneurs feel they need to leave their communities to be a part of a startup – which are essential for
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