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Announcing our investment in SilviaTerra, a precision forestry startup

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With that said, forest management is critical but options for landowners have been limited. As the saying goes, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” He received forestry training at Mississippi State and a graduate degree at the Yale School of Forestry. Also, SilviaTerra is hiring !

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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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Each SBDC offers slightly different services, but a typical SBDC will have free and confidential business advising, business management classes, and entrepreneurial workshops. They can also help startups think through things like how to grow and when to hire their first employee. Confidential business advising, workshops, and classes.

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

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Management. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Mississippi. Mississippi. Manage Email Preferences. Manage Email Preferences. » More. Real Estate. » More. » More.

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How to Fund a Startup

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And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. At Viaweb we managed to raise $2.5

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

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Helmed by husband-and-wife team Stuart (Director of Sales and Marketing) and Emily (Managing Director, Board Chair, and Chief Ice Cream Inventor) Philips, during 2015 and 2016 Red Wagon is preparing for a big “regional-national” leap in production and distribution—in part by taking advantage of a new public investing program. “We

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. So, the numbers in San Francisco are very different than what we're seeing in other parts of the country. Sydney Gressel : Yeah. Ryan Sarver : Yeah.