Steve Case thinks ‘Rise of the Rest’ is gaining...

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AOL co-founder and billionaire Steve Case has been hammering home one idea for the last few years — that the future of tech and startups rests outside of the traditional Silicon Valley ecosystem and in the fertile plains of America’s heartland. Now, with less than a month until his fifth “Rise of the Rest” tour, he sees that idea gaining traction. “What we are doing with Rise of the Rest is now starting to break through,” Case told me. “People are paying more attention to what is…