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How Startups Can Prepare For Their First Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

Millias and Warren Chung of OUM & Co. Successful entrepreneurs start with a vision. Once an entrepreneur has their books and records aligned, they cannot forget about the one thing that is certain in life – taxes! Millias is the managing partner and co-founder of OUM & Co. by Chris S.

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How and Why the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator is Different

View from Seed

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

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Small Businesses Rate Utah and Alabama Friendliest States, California and Illinois Among Least Friendly. The Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey is the only survey to obtain data from an extensive, nationwide universe of job creators and entrepreneurs in order to determine the most business-friendly locations.

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

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An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc.,

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How to Make Profits Serve a Purpose With Your Startup

Up and Running

The University of Alabama at Birmingham points to the healthcare industry as being ripe for disruption through technology. You’ll have an advantage with this round because your idea aims to actually help people (it’s not an “Uber for hamsters,” as one entrepreneur I spoke to joked). How to avoid post-accelerator funding failure.

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Announcing our investment in SilviaTerra, a precision forestry startup

Version One Ventures

And most importantly for us as investors, SilviaTerra is founded by mission-driven entrepreneurs. The story starts with CEO Zack Parisa who grew up in the woods of northern Alabama. Zack co-founded SilviaTerra with Yale computer science student Max Nova in 2010. We co-led the $4.4M

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