{"id":9569,"date":"2016-10-05T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2016-10-05T18:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T22:06:30","slug":"a-small-town-in-texas-beats-san-francisco-on-this-key-metric-for-startups-marketwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/a-small-town-in-texas-beats-san-francisco-on-this-key-metric-for-startups-marketwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"A small town in Texas beats San Francisco on this key metric for startups &#8211; MarketWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>I bet I know at least partly why. West Texas Investors Club, is based in the area. Mike &#8220;Rooster&#8221; McConaughey and company have been creating all kinds of new startup jobs in a tiny area, so the percentage of jobs that are with startups is like double Silicon Valley&#8230;which has millions of jobs, compared to tiny Midland. Go Rooster and Butch!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buff.ly\/2cTVzkW\">http:\/\/buff.ly\/2cTVzkW<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet I know at least partly why. West Texas Investors Club, is based in the area. Mike &#8220;Rooster&#8221; McConaughey and company have been creating all kinds of new startup jobs in a tiny area, so the percentage of jobs that are with startups is like double Silicon Valley&#8230;which has millions of jobs, compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-9569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12919,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/high-tech-how-marijuana-legalization-breeds-innovation\/","url_meta":{"origin":9569,"position":0},"title":"High Tech: How Marijuana Legalization Breeds Innovation","date":"March 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Every new industry is an opportunity for innovation, and as the cannabis industry gets out from under the shadow of demonization, new weed-related startups will create thousands of jobs and billions in revenues. 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