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Jessica Scorpio struggled for years to get her company, Getaround, off the ground, largely due to one massive roadblock. Getaround is a car-sharing marketplace on which car owners can rent their vehicles to anyone else in the program.

Jessica Scorpio struggled for years to get her company, Getaround, off the ground, largely due to one massive roadblock. Getaround is a car-sharing marketplace on which car owners can rent their vehicles to anyone else in the program

Some of the most interesting revitalization work in Savannah is coming not from the traditional--and often unsuccessful--saviors of decayed neighborhoods. It’s coming from design students, who are earnestly trying to find ways to work with local residents without igniting suspicion of outsiders wielding big ideas. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big

Corporations, states and Uncle Sam offer loads of free help to women-owned businesses.

Home to a burgeoning concentration of tech start-ups and incubators, Detroit's "Webward Avenue" is not just a street--it's also a movement. Can it transform Detroit

(Yes, really.) For a start-up boom, a city needs an explosion of tech talent. Nicole Carter breaks down Detroit's entrepreneurial education system

The serial tech entrepreneur has made a career out of taking slightly bizarre behaviors and turning them into start-ups. His latest: a task-on-demand app. Justin Kan has made a career out of taking slightly bizarre behaviors and turning then into tech start-ups

Forget flash mobs. This new kind of group supports local shops

Entrepreneurs play a bigger role in the health of their cities -- and reap more from their success -- than you might suspect. Location, location, location! We’ve all heard that, for many small businesses, one of the keys to success lies in landing the right real estate

Drybar closes a $16 million investment to help with expansion while its biggest competitor marches into its territory.

Here are 5 reasons your city makes a big difference to the success of your business. We all hear about the critical role that businesses play in the competitiveness and economic growth of our cities.

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Sure, it would be neat if an app could help me find a local pickup game in my neighborhood, but is that something residents of New York City actually need?

When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly. With a little help from what's called the Internet of Things, engineers are transforming cities from passive conduits for water into dynamic systems that store and manage it like the tissues of desert animals.

You're far from VCs and surrounded by people who don't like risks. Then again, the potential to be a big fish in a small pond is huge. Launching a tech start-up outside the VC-obsessed Silicon Valley and New York City comes with a catch-22.