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How this liberal arts college became a hothouse for startups

Move over Silicon Valley. The new startup nexus is...northern Vermont?

12/17/2015 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

How this liberal arts college became a hothouse for startups

Clip: 12/17/2015 | 8m 18s

Move over Silicon Valley. The new startup nexus is...northern Vermont?

Middlebury College, a liberal arts school in northern Vermont with just 2,500 students, has become an unlikely hothouse for cultivating entrepreneurs. Does using college to start a business help support the larger liberal arts mission? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

12/17/2015 | Rating NR

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