Dean Newton

The United States of Venture Capital - Where Money Goes

While start-ups in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York receive the bulk of venture capital, and the most media attention, the money is actually spread around the country further than you might think.

Using data from Dow Jones VentureSource and software from Tableau, we dumped onto a U.S. map the nearly 1,500 venture-capital funding deals — worth more than $14 billion — that took place in the first six months of the year.

Check out the map on the “Interactive Graphics” tab of this post (or click the picture). You’ll see that start-ups in 40 states were recipients of venture capital — even Hawaii.

Map here: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/08/04/interactive-map-the-united-states-of-venture-capital/

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Americans and Texting - Some Shocking Usage Numbers from PEW

Several publications have reported that 31% of US adults prefer to be contacted via text message. In fact, this question was asked of cell phone owners who use text messaging, and 31% of these text messaging users prefer to be contacted via text when someone needs to reach them.

Some 83% of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73%) send and receive text messages. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project asked those texters in a survey how they prefer to be contacted on their cell phone and 31% said they preferred texts to talking on the phone, while 53% said they preferred a voice call to a text message. Another 14% said the contact method they prefer depends on the situation.

Heavy text users are much more likely to prefer texting to talking. Some 55% of those who exchange more than 50 messages a day say they would rather get a text than a voice call.

Young adults are the most avid texters by a wide margin. Cell owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day—that works out to more than 3,200 texts per month—and the typical or median cell owner in this age group sends or receives 50 messages per day (or 1500 messages per month).

more: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Cell-Phone-Texting-2011.aspx?src=prc-headline

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