Opportunity knocks for inner-city business

[Justin6882]

This is a pretty neat article discussing how small business will play a huge roll in bringing back American inner cities. Mentions downtown Raleigh as home to Peopleclick...

An inner-city location is working well for Peopleclick, an IT company that picked downtown Raleigh, N.C., instead of suburban Research Triangle Park as its headquarters.

bizjournals article

[DanRNC]

Interesting article. Hopefully more small tech companies will follow PeopleClick although I think Durham is giving Raleigh a run for their money as far as attracting these small companies downtown.

[urbanesq]

Peopleclick is in our building-- there's a ton of them down there. You can tell it's an IT company because they all wear jeans and sandals.

Not to be overly technical, because it's a good story, but I'd hardly call them a small company. Isn't the SBA definition of "small business" under 100 employees?

[Justin6882]

Per the article...

Note: Time period is 1995-2002; small businesses are firms with fewer than 500 employees

[urbanesq]

^^fair enough.