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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

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In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us. The best part was that it was a blind review.

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Nonprofit Embezzlement Cases: Examples to Learn From

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68% of for-profit and governmental organizations instituted a review of internal controls by management as compared with 44% of nonprofits. losses due to corporate abuse and accounting fraud. The nonprofit consists of a network of charter schools the senior advisor founded in 2005. technology-related embezzlement schemes ?such

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Save Money With Tech Tax Incentives

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Case in point: your company’s technology. From Internet connectivity to mobile devices, tech systems can represent a boon for your business’s tax filings. When one thinks of technology, we often conjure thoughts of electronics that fill a building, not the building itself. Deductions gleaned from efficient office spaces.

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Beware of Ballers on a Budget

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I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. It got me thinking about the tech industry. Work on budgets, submit RFPs, answer customers support calls, work the bug-tracking software, and trying to meet the next sprint release schedule. A few years ago I headed out to China for a few weeks on a tech tour.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

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This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. As a technologist he felt the US was “ground zero&# for technology innovation.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.