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Innovate Mississippi puts $50,000 behind the homework
Vc · Education

Innovate Mississippi puts $50,000 behind the homework

A statewide nonprofit pairs startup coaching with capital and local connections. Its wager: founders can build an investable business without first leaving Mississippi.

startup-accelerator · mississippiRead →
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The Focus Group Sells the Gulf Coast to Itself - Then to Everyone Else
Media · Enterprise

The Focus Group Sells the Gulf Coast to Itself - Then to Everyone Else

From shrimp selfies on digital billboards to a census spot voiced by Morgan Freeman, this Biloxi agency has learned that regional knowledge becomes valuable when it can make somebody act.

advertising-agency · integrated-marketingRead →
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The $78 Bet That Learned to Speak Pentagon
Media · Enterprise

The $78 Bet That Learned to Speak Pentagon

A Mississippi agency started with a tax refund, challenged a state's caricature, and found a durable niche explaining complicated things to skeptical people.

public-relations · brand-strategyRead →
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The Mississippi Telco That Ran Google's Fiber Playbook - And Kept the Whole State
Enterprise · Consumer · Hardware

The Mississippi Telco That Ran Google's Fiber Playbook - And Kept the Whole State

How a Gulf Coast cellular start-up became the biggest privately held wireless carrier in America - by making towns compete to get fiber first, then wiring the rest of the state anyway.

c-spire · fiber-internetRead →