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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups. Myth #2: All startups are technology companies.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. B corp, or Benefit Corporation.

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6 Things to Consider Before Entering a Market

Up and Running

” My printing, promotion, and marketing company offers a real-life example: We had customers who had to coordinate printing, promotional products, distribution, and fulfillment to thousands of their retail locations. They were making multiple phone calls and dealing with hundreds of emails.

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

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What is an L3C?

Up and Running

Currently, you can form an L3C in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, and in the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Pros of The L3C Structure.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

Or Monroe, Montana? But you’re also mistaken: There is no Monroe, Montana. It costs less than $100 per year to run a website, and—unlike the print publishing era—no reputable editor or printing costs stand in the way of immediate, uncensored, worldwide distribution. How much do you know about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?

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Hey Klout, One-dimensional Reputation Is Meaningless.

Diego Basch

how influential is Robert Scoble in Distributed Systems? Clearly Barack Obama is more influential in Politics than Brian Schweitzer (governor of Montana). Is he more or less influential than Paul Graham for this topic? Obviously the answer changes if we’re talking about startup advice, although it’s still nuanced.