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Entrepreneurs

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When a Company Invests in an ‘Underdog City’

  • James Fallows
  • February 25, 2021
The story of how a company that started in one of these places is now involving people and businesses in another—and why that matters in the next stage of equitable American recovery.
Bitwise sit in an auditorium with their hands raised.
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A Company That Helps You Find Job B

  • James Fallows
  • April 30, 2020
The tech-training and incubator company Bitwise, based in Fresno in California’s agricultural Central Valley, has been an important test case for the proposition that new, valuable, job-creating and wealth-expanding businesses…
An event in the long-abandoned Elks Lodge in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, now an office center and civic space.
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Sparking a Small-Town Business Ecosystem

  • James Fallows
  • April 27, 2020
The national-level response to the coronavirus pandemic descends from tragedy into catastrophe. The black granite slabs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington display the names of more than 58,000…
Jake Soberal and Irma Olquin, co-founders and co-CEOs of Bitwise Industries in Fresno, which announced a big expansion today (Courtesy of Bitwise Industries)
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Bitwise Goes Big

  • James Fallows
  • June 19, 2019
Fresno tech startup, Bitwise gets $27 million in funding to expand its operations.
Joel Deuterman, founder and CEO of Velocity Network, outside downtown Erie’s now-abandoned Rothrock Building, which he bought and will make his company's headquarters.
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Erie and America

  • James Fallows
  • August 26, 2016
The challenges of Rust Belt America are real, and well-known. What's less familiar is the response some mid-sized cities are making.
The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, part of the university-research complex that has supported a tech surge in what was once America's steel city (Wikimedia)
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How to Create a Tech Startup Scene If You’re Not in Silicon Valley

  • John Tierney
  • December 23, 2014
Pittsburgh's success provides important and surprising clues.
A different kind of underground wealth is the source of a new business in West Virginia.
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  • Entrepreneurs

Artisanal Salt From an Ancient Sea

  • James Fallows
  • December 5, 2014
Fair warning: I am not going to try to strap any Larger Policy Significance onto this report. It was just one of the more interesting things we’ve seen on our…
Evaporation rooms in J.Q. Dickinson artisan-salt works in Malden, West Virginia (Photos Bob Coffield)
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  • Entrepreneurs

Another Look at Salt-Harvesting in West Virginia

  • James Fallows
  • December 5, 2014
Combine ancient ingredients with a modern sensibility, and a new business takes form.
Wendy Downs holds a Market Bag, Moop's first product—and still one of its big sellers. (John Tierney)
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The Story of Moop: How an Unlikely Company Came to Be

  • John Tierney
  • November 14, 2014
A Pittsburgh woman managed to build a successful bag company from a failed effort to make a dress.
Stop sign with the word rape spray painted on it.
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The iPhone Case That Can Call the Police

  • John Tierney
  • November 11, 2014
A startup in Pittsburgh has designed a smartphone case and app to deter assault and help catch the attackers.
Plastic bottles at a collection site in Haiti (Thread)
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The Company That Turns Plastic Bottles Into Fabric and Jobs

  • John Tierney
  • November 7, 2014
A startup in Pittsburgh shows what a social enterprise is capable of.
Parliament Chocolate's wares.
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Ice Cream, Chocolate, Coffee, and Beer

  • Deborah Fallows
  • January 7, 2014
Take ingredients and blend, for small-town synergy.

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