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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

These include Arkansas, Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. In a handful of states, if you have three (3) or more employees you must carry workers’ compensation insurance.

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March 3-6, Birmingham, AL: Alternative Investing Conference

David Teten

Smith, President & General Counsel, GrayShell Consulting; Member, Pacific Pension Institute’s Board of Directors; Member, Governing Board of The Robert Toigo Foundation; Former Trustee, LACERS; Former Board Member Council of Institutional Investors. My Partner John Frankel and I are both speaking.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together. Principal Investigator: Nilanjan Banerjee University of Arkansas. The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps combines the best of what the U.S.

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

online.wsj.com

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. the previous year. Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

You are now free to marry the soon to be released Apple Tablet in California, New York, Arkansas, Ohio, Maine and Vermont. The rest of you will just have to go to one of these events to try to find human life partners: Monday, January 25th 6:00PM The Future of Music: with Lyor Cohen, CEO Rec. Tuesday, January 26th.

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Shut Up and Invest? Investors Weighing in on Politics

This is going to be BIG.

It’s an entirely fair question—and the risk is that limited partners, founders, or other VCs might not want to work with me because I’m vocal about my political views. As a solo General Partner, my firm is me—and there isn’t a difference between investor Charlie and personal Charlie. Limited partners judge my investment acumen.