Columbus
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Mid-Sized Cities Provide Better Startup Launchpads Than Large Metros
“When you're in a smaller, small to mid-sized city, the city gets behind it in a different way. You know, you can really try things and also fail a lot, and people still stick with you. And I have noticed that in big cities, everybody's trying new things. Every…”
Jeni's Ice Cream Would Have Failed If Launched In Brooklyn
“It would be impossible to do what we do at Jenny's. All of our money would have been in, you know, rent, and paying people, and all the things that you have to do in Brooklyn that would be different from Columbus. And here we can put it all in the ice cream, a…”
Co-founder Bill Oesterle funded Angie's List's first year via friends
“He said, like, why don't you move to Columbus and we can start a business. I'll raise a little bit of money from, you know, friends and enough to get you through the first year, but I want you to commit for a year.”
Angie's List launched in 1995 with a $19 call-in membership
“19 dollars. So 19 bucks for the year. We were a magazine and a call-in service. So during the day, you'd call in, and you could ask me for the name of a plumber or an electrician, and then in the evening, I would go out door-to-door and also ask for reviews.”
Britton Bauer: First venture was fully funded by partner's parents
“I had a friend, and so she and I were messing around with this together, and she was able to get all of it from her parents.”