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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Their recommendations drew on insights gleaned from over 242 !

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Investing In Rural Startups: Green Card Targeted Employment Areas (TEAs)

The Startup Magazine

Hawaii, California, Florida, Texas, Washington, and Minnesota place specific areas under the TEA designation. For example, Hawaii states that the Island of Hawaii, the Island of Kauai, the Island of Oahu, and the Islands of Maui, Lanai, and Molokai qualify in non-metropolitan areas.

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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. These include Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah. The Size of Your Business Might Matter.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." And you don't even need the government to help you there. What did China do?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. California. California. Live Chat Recap. All Rights Reserved.

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What eCommerce Startups Need to Know About Online Sales Tax

Up and Running

Follow internet business tax laws to stay compliant with applicable government agencies, like the IRS and your state. Basically, your business is the middle-man between consumers and the government. Hawaii also does not charge sales tax, but they have a General Excise Tax (GET) that is applied to all sales. The end user (i.e.,

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.