Middle Tennessee's health care dominance makes it harder for companies in other industries to land local investments from institutional investors. In this Nashville Business Journal article, Chris Sloan notes that a key step for attracting investors to non-health care companies would be the sale or public offering of local technology firms in the next couple of years.
"We have a lot of really interesting non-health care companies that are in middle stages who are going to start exiting," Mr. Sloan said. "That's going to be a big [momentum] builder."
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