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How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable

The Startup Magazine

Now, according to the Sustainability Management School , by the year 2030, it is expected that as many as 700 million people may end up having to move due to scarcity of water where they live if the current climate change issues continue. In some cities, such as Sacramento, this is already the case and has been for years.

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SXSW Startups: Fantag

Austin Startup

We then added and monetized Fantag Manager, which gave users a cloud platform for managing all their video, as well as more advanced features such as adding monetization options, creating additional highlights, and generating highlight reels. Fantag is based in Sacramento. What are the next steps for Fantag? Sleeping more!

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Principles For Low-Budget Marketing Strategies Every Startup Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Even placing a lemonade stand under the inclement sun of Sacramento at 2:00 pm, just after the finish line of a marathon, is understanding a target necessities, for example. But you don’t necessarily need a big bank account for creating a successful project. They have a direct relationship with the brand.

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Champing At The Bit: Can You Pay Your Workers In Bitcoin?

YoungUpstarts

There is no middleman between parties exchanging the currency, unlike regular forms of payment that are backed and controlled by a central government authority or a bank. Ebbink is Of Counsel in the firm’s Sacramento, Calif. Its appeal is that it is completely decentralized. Benjamin M.

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Pitching America’s mayors

Austin Startup

Second place: RoadBotics ($5,000) Pittsburgh’s RoadBotics helps cities to monitor and manage one of the most important and expensive pieces of infrastructure: roads. This allows cities to be proactive instead of reactive as they manage their roadways.

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When Open Space Isn’t

Venture Chronicles

Their plight perfectly illustrates the broader issue of state parks and recreation facilities in the pecking order of budget priorities, but it also serves as a cautionary tale of how bureaucrats and politicians in California have successfully executed on a public policy campaign to put us all on the government teet.