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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

In 2009 alone, the entertainment software industry added close to $5 billion to the U.S. This industry is responsible for creating a number of green jobs that are supporting not just the green economy, but the U.S. Experts point out that investment in green jobs lowers unemployment while also improving the U.S.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. View this post on Instagram mahabis selfie // we love this awesome set of unboxing photos by @mwgreenwood also with the gotland green soles! American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

There were a lot of the first spreadsheets, and the first different software applications. Of course, then we had these long dot matrix printers with the green bar paper, and it would just spew out row after row. There’s no way we’ll ever use a web browser for software. We’ll do office in a browser.”

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How To Buy Back Your Time And Reclaim Your Freedom

Duct Tape Marketing

So that's a hundred grand, I divide that number, whatever it is for anybody by 2000, you know, in this case that works out to about $50 an hour, 2000 is because that's the amount of hours an average person that takes vacation and weekends off will work, right? (08:49): And none of the other stuff. John Jantsch (24:01): Awesome.

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These are the British Businesses Adopting Green and Sustainable Practices

The Startup Magazine

It appears as though consumer demand is motivating businesses to become more sustainable which is reinforced by government green tax breaks for energy-efficient SMEs. www.arcolatheatre.com/about/green. This was the start of the Green Arcola project, which began in 2007, that today has become a whole new enterprise of its own.

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. Green power reduces the energy efficiency advantage of trains and the hyperloop. There’s always been a sweet spot in my heart for flying cars.