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Founding a Hardware Start-Up Is Getting Easier

Harvard Business Review

venture-capital investment was for hardware start-ups last year, but that represents a big increase from 1992–2011, when the figure was less than 1% , says the Wall Street Journal. Only 3% of U.S. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Even in this contentious election year, all sides agree on one issue: The loss of American manufacturing jobs over the past decade has been a disaster for the U.S. It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago.

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