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How the COVID-Preneur Led to a Micro Business Renaissance

Austin Startup

ZenBusiness helps entrepreneurs form an LLC, as well as provides access to tools for banking and insurance, invoicing and payments, accounting and taxes, and website development. photography and design) Polling the Customers ZenBusiness polled roughly 500 customers to look at a host of factors relating to their businesses.

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Boston Startup School Graduates To Institute With New York Expansion

ReadWriteStart

A new school designed to teach people the necessary skills to work within the chaos that are startups is coming to New York. Known as the Boston Startup School , the company is now rebranding itself as the Startup Institute and expanding its first class to New York City starting in June.

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[Infographic] What Does It Cost To Run A Startup?

YoungUpstarts

This infographic from Staff.com shows the great disparities in the costs of starting up – getting an office and hiring two web developers and one designer – across Zurich, Sydney, New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Mumbai and Manila: [ Staff.com – Connecting Great Companies with Global Talent ].

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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[Competition] Expand My Brand

YoungUpstarts

Touted as the first-ever startup competition for marketing technology companies where the brands and customers have the final say in the winner, EXPANDMYBRAND is looking for five lucky emerging social technology startups who will get to pitch to a panel of representatives from top brands such as Starbucks, Nike, Macy’s and Gap as well as social (..)

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I started my career working at a large law firm in New York. It was everything I could want as a twenty-something cutting their teeth in a new profession. I was living in New York for a few years and saw the rise of clear aligner businesses. 26- Develop safe and versatile workwear. 5- Pursue a mission.

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Turn Your Web Design Talent Into Freelance Success

YoungUpstarts

Dan Bochichio has been developing websites for over 15 years and is the co-founder of Bocain Designs , a web development company in upstate New York. Just keep in mind that effectively managing your business is just as important as your design skills.

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