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How Startups Can Prepare For Their First Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

They spend a lot of time, effort and resources on developing a business plan, and even more time and effort on raising capital, finding the right people and developing strategic partners. California and Massachusetts have state minimum taxes, whereas states such as Alabama and Tennessee impose franchise tax based on capital/equity.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Within the community, residents get access to co-ops, mentoring, courses, and always-on access to the incubator. Innovation Depot.

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How to Add “Championship Caliber” to Your Business

Growthink Blog

Did you catch the end of the Alabama-Georgia College Football Championship game on Monday? The game provided an awesome wisdom for business executives and entrepreneurs seeking to progress their organizations from good to championship caliber. It was incredible (unless, of course, you’re a Georgia fan). On the next practice.

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Go Live With The Whales

YoungUpstarts

These were illuminating moments he likely would not have had if he had stayed at his desk in Alabama. There’s a business opportunity for someone who is reading this, and that is exactly what I am talking about. He also discovered that he could sell his company’s ideas on the subject to the Chilean and Argentinean metal roof industry.

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Michigan Small Biz Giveaway … and Why Not Your State and Mine Too?

Up and Running

Unlike most of the major MBA business plan competitions, this is apparently real money, not investment for equity, not in-kind services. They also have prizes for students, and even a $5,000 prize for the best tweet related to business plans. I’m impressed. Not bad — if you’re in Michigan.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 10 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The two founders are attorneys in Mobile, Alabama, who found themselves wearing the same ties over and over again, and wanted to find a way to expand their wardrobe. They had three stages to their plan. The first was to franchise their model, selling a captain a $35,000 boat and a business plan to replicate Corks Away for $175,000.

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Freshmen Entrepreneurs at Samford University | Student Entrepreneur

Campus Entrepreneurship

We redesigned BUSA 100 with this in mind, and we are now one of the few business schools in the country where students can take an entrepreneurship course and compete in their own division of a business plan competition during their freshman year. The bigger issue is getting entrepreneurship out of the business school.

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