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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more. So don’t let location hold you back, but you need to go in with your eyes open.

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When Planning A Startup, A Top Priority Is Location

Startup Professionals Musings

Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more. So don’t let location hold you back, but you need to go in with your eyes open.

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California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado

VC Adventure

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011.

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4 Key Questions To Identify Your Ideal Startup Site

Startup Professionals Musings

Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by almost 65%. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more. So don’t let location hold you back, but you need to go in with your eyes open.

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Elemind: Wearable AI offers ‘electric medicine’ via brain stimulation

ReadWriteStart

Elemind has dubbed the approach “electric medicine”, created through partnerships with multiple leading research institutions from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College London, Harvard Medical School and the University of California at Berkeley.

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The Pitfalls Of State And Local Taxation For Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

For example, the state of California asserts that a company with gross receipts within the state of $561,951 or more for tax year 2017 may be subject to income tax based on economic presence. North Dakota , 504 U.S. 298 (1992), which requires “substantial nexus” in the form of property or people to impose sales tax on out-of-state sellers.

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How Startups Can Prepare For Their First Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

California and Massachusetts have state minimum taxes, whereas states such as Alabama and Tennessee impose franchise tax based on capital/equity. For example, a company registered to do business in California needs to timely file the Statement of Information with the Secretary of State.