January 24, 2015October 21, 2019 // Entrepreneur News & Observer: “Triangle Punching Above its Weight as Tech Hub” The News and Observer went in-depth on CEDâs entrepreneurial hub benchmarking research today, noting how the Triangle is keeping pace with other national hubs like Austin, Chicago, Denver/Boulder, Seattle, and Atlanta. CED president Joan Siefert Rose commented on how the research gives the Triangle community much-needed context on how they stack up: âWe always hear about, where is the billion-dollar company?â Rose said. âWell, guess what? None of these markets had a billion-dollar IPO. ⊠We have growing markets, and yet the level of maturity to get to billion-dollar IPOs, none of us have it.â Read the entire article, here.