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Denver a top 10 U.S. city for entrepreneurs, startups, says report

In January the Denver Business Journal reported that 2017 was a banner year for startups in Colorado, with venture capitalists investing $1.1 billion in startups.
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Denver's one of the top 10 cities in the country for entrepreneurs and startups, according to a new report.

Business.org, a website that provides research, product reviews and recommendations to business owners, said it surveyed 300 U.S.cities and ranked the top 40, according to "their start-up friendliness, as well as financial environments and demographic cultures."

Denver was ranked No. 10 in the country.

Business.org said its criteria included: the percentage of young adult residents; the percentage of residents with higher education; the local employment rate; housing costs; startup growth rates; and included data from the Kauffman Index’s 2017 Growth Entrepreneurship report.

Read more at the Denver Business Journal: https://bit.ly/2ufbCYu

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