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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. Small businesses are top-of-mind for lawmakers nationwide, but too often their needs are more a matter of conjecture rather than actual evidence,” says Sander Daniels, co-founder of Thumbtack.com. San Francisco, Calif.)

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5 Tips To Find Diverse Candidates That Make Dollars And Sense

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Whether you champion this issue or are forced to go along to get along, it is critical to learn how to effectively hire diverse candidates because bad hires — regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation – will sink the ship.

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

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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Announcing our investment in SilviaTerra, a precision forestry startup

Version One Ventures

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 Also, SilviaTerra is hiring ! And most importantly for us as investors, SilviaTerra is founded by mission-driven entrepreneurs.

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