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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Making this switch will allow companies and employees to save up to $12,000 per employee per year, while offering a better employee health benefit program for recruiting and retention purposes.

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Open Letter to a New Austinite

Austin Startup

This growth has fueled Austin’s economic maturation and increasingly-enviable national profile, but it has also fueled widespread gentrification, a decline in local business retention, income disparity and real estate zoning challenges that are as noticeable as burnt orange hats and t-shirts.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. #2 – To Reinvent Myself After a Tragedy. Image Credit: Bess Heitner. I wish I had done this years ago.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

There are multiple points of value from the Trailheads program (lower support costs, higher retention, faster time to value for clients etc.) I pay monthly subscriptions for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker and National Geographic. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Press is something you should do once you know your activation / retention metrics are good. It all depends on where you’re at.