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How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

Give your company a name. Name your trusted inner circle of company leaders (or just yourself). Because of its popularity, Delaware is also statistically a popular state for investors to finance businesses. This sounds great, but doing business in another state means additional paperwork. Give your business a name.

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What Startups Need to Know About Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

They use the Business Model (or Mission Model ) Canvas to keep track of their key hypotheses and then rapidly test them by talking to customers and iterating their Minimal Viable Products. Diagram Your Business Model. The best way to start is by drawing a business model canvas. In the U.S.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

Yet amidst all the partisan cheerleading and name-calling, there has been some discussion of substance. Now all eyes are on the SEC as it adopts regulations to implement the new law with the hope that it won’t get tied up in red tape. One particular four-letter word has been used pervasively by candidates of all stripes: Jobs.

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Why Investors are Loving Austin as an Innovation Hub!

Austin Startup

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. With the sheer number of startups, talent and investment funds within Austin or moving to the city, it is no surprise that the number of individuals relocating to the area continues to increase.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers.

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Where Does Most Business Growth Really Come From (Clue: It’s Not Startups)?

YoungUpstarts

by Walker Deibel , Managing Director of Centra and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game “ If I asked you to name a business success story, what would you think of? Indeed, all startups today aim to be the “Uber of [enter your industry here],” right?

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers.