Steve Case, cofounder of America Online and Revolution and New York
Times bestselling author of The Third Wave, shows how entrepreneurs
across the country are building groundbreaking companies, renewing
communities, and creating new jobs-in the process reimagining the
American landscape and bringing people together around a shared
future. In 2014, Steve Case launched Revolution's Rise of the Rest,
an initiative to accelerate the growth of tech startups across the
country. Rise of the Rest is based on a simple idea: cities can be
renewed and rise again if they develop a vibrant startup culture. A
visionary entrepreneur himself, Case believes that great
entrepreneurs can be found anywhere, and can thrive with the proper
support and investment. In fact, they're key to the American DNA.
After all, America itself was a startup. It struggled to get going
and almost didn't make it. Today it's the leader of the free world,
in part because it has the world's largest economy-a testament to
several generations of pioneering entrepreneurs. But America needs
help keeping its promises, as it is harder today for innovators who
live outside the major tech hubs. For most of the past decade,
seventy-five percent of venture capital has gone to just three
states-California, New York, and Massachusetts-while the
forty-seven states making up the rest of the country have been
forced to share the remaining twenty-five percent. And it's even
harder for some people no matter where they live. Less than ten
percent of venture capital currently goes to female founders, and
less than one percent to Black founders. Since new
companies-startups-are responsible for net new job creation, it is
essential that entrepreneurs everywhere have the opportunity to
start and scale companies. Rise of the Rest is about leveling the
playing field for everybody, and in the process creating
opportunity and jobs for the people and places that have been left
behind. This book tells that story and provides a hopeful
perspective on the future of America. In The Rise of the Rest: How
Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American
Dream, Case takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the
startup communities that are transforming cities nationwide. Rise
of the Rest's signature road trips, on a big red tour bus, have
created significant local and national buzz and spotlighted
communities large and small that have committed to a new
tech-enabled future. Along the way, Case introduces readers to
dozens of entrepreneurs whose inspirational stories of struggle and
achievement match the most iconic examples of American invention.
To date, Case has traveled to forty-three cities on his Rise of the
Rest bus tour and has been featured on 60 Minutes, and in The New
York Times, USA TODAY, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal.
With dedicated venture funds, backed by an iconic group of
investors, executives, and entrepreneurs including Jeff Bezos, Eric
Schmidt, Meg Whitman, John Doerr, Sara Blakely, and Ray Dalio, Rise
of the Rest also invests in the most promising high-growth startups
located anywhere in the US outside of Silicon Valley, New York
City, and Boston. The fund has invested in more than 175 companies
across more than eighty cities, including: Phoenix, Chattanooga,
Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Louisville, Baltimore, Columbus, St.
Louis, Green Bay, Madison, Buffalo, Kansas City, Minneapolis,
Cincinnati, Miami, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Atlanta,
Pittsburgh, Nashville, Indianapolis, New Orleans, and dozens of
others.
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