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Am I Properly Insured as a Business Owner?

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In addition, if your business operates in California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, or Rhode Island, you are required to carry disability insurance. Your state’s department of insurance can help you find a broker, and you can also ask around for referrals from local businesses, or on social media.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. B2B: Business Media. Consumer Media. E-Media Summit -->. Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

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In contrast, small business owners gave Hawaii, Maine and Rhode Island an ā€œF,ā€ while California and Illinois rounded out the bottom five, both earning a ā€œDā€ grade. The relative ease of running a business where I live is a direct reflection of the way our city and state operate and enforce the rules.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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I wasnā€™t trendy or frilly, but I was good at my job ā€” pitching stories to the media ā€” so they tolerated my lack of fancy. And really in PR, the best media coverage starts with the basic pitch. When I launched my social media consultancy in 2010, I knew I wanted to incorporate my name. Why NRGized Media?

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

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Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Rhode Island. Management.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: YANA

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The first is the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. Cost-savings, huge talent pool, timeliness, ease of useā€¦who doesnā€™t want these things when operating a business! What’s the single best small biz resource that you’ve found (magazine, website, blog, etc.)?

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. You can't really operate. You're one of the largest private companies in the world and then the walls come crashing down.