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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

If the tourist tours of start-ups are any indication, the area’s nickname as the “ Hollywood of Technology ” is wholly appropriate. This, along with over 800 million dollars raised by Utah-based companies that year ranked Utah as the seventh highest in the country, an impressive achievement for a state with just three million people.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. appeared first on Bplans Blog. Here in the U.S. The organization is designed so that it can function generally as an LLC would, while legally accepting foundation grants because of the organization’s socially beneficial goals.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

If the tourist tours of start-ups are any indication, the area’s nickname as the “ Hollywood of Technology ” is wholly appropriate. This, along with over 800 million dollars raised by Utah-based companies that year ranked Utah as the seventh highest in the country, an impressive achievement for a state with just three million people.

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Quickly Unpacking SAP’s $8B Acquisition Of Qualtrics

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There are plenty of well-deserved articles by Axios and Forbes and tweets of praise for Qualtrics (must read Utah-based VC Bryce Roberts’ storm here ), which you can and should read. Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO.

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Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

YoungUpstarts

Jana now has over 70 full-time employees, most of them based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Jana says, “For me it is very rewarding to know that the situation I dreamed of for myself is being provided for so many moms in Utah who would not have a job if they were not working here.”. The revenue in 2012 was $16.4

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

If the tourist tours of start-ups are any indication, the area’s nickname as the “ Hollywood of Technology ” is wholly appropriate. This, along with over 800 million dollars raised by Utah-based companies that year ranked Utah as the seventh highest in the country, an impressive achievement for a state with just three million people.

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Universities Making Money from Licensing Technology | Inside Higher Ed

Campus Entrepreneurship

Good piece by Sam Petulla highlighting the recent Association of University Technology Managers survey on technology commercialization at select universities in America. Technology transfer offices still garner a lot of attention and resources, but did they play a role in Facebook, Google, H-P, Under Armour, Gatorade, and Groupon?

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