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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

According to eWeek , India-based tech firms support more than 280,000 jobs in the United states, concentrated primarily in California, Michigan, Texas, and Illinois. Following a boost in holiday retail sales, the service industry has experienced a fast pace of growth in late 2011 and early 2012. Treasury during the last five years.

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[Interview] Zack Creed, Oakville Golf Instructor On Entrepreneurship, Career Transitions

YoungUpstarts

Senior Open Championship in 2011 and for the 2012 BMW (Fedex playoff), as well as play with celebrities, politicians, and other professional athletes. While working at The Hawthorns Golf & Country Club in Fishers, Indiana, Zack qualified for and played in the 2012 and 2013 Indiana Open tournaments.

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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. Only in California! The process will repeat itself, quarter by quarter – new students, new University entrepreneurship teaching teams. And do it in 8 weeks. Team EngineKites.

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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

Startup Professionals Musings

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. California and NY dominate for number of seed deals. California is the clear #1 for seed investment activity followed by strong #2 New York. Healthcare is not far behind.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Five College Startups That Help Others

YoungUpstarts

The company was originally started in March of 2010 by a Californian high school student who now attends the University of California, Berkeley. Givebag was also founded by Brian Schroth and other college students in Southern California. For example, if you buy a green bottle of water then you would support their environmental cause.

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How to Open a Marijuana Dispensary

Up and Running

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. If you’re in California, he also recommends reading Proposition 215 and Proposition 420.