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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

Up and Running

It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” With any startup, investment capital is crucial to getting your business plan off the ground.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

are going to add this story to our blog via our IT guy at [link] we have a audience in las vegas that will read your article. I've learned more in the three months working with a real-life entrepreneur on a new venture than in all 5 years of Community College and my BA. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM. blog internships.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Swiftrank

crowdSPRING Blog

I was intrigued to find a well-established website for a city like Las Vegas up for a logo re-design on crowdSPRING so I emailed Sue Heilbronner, the CMO of Swiftrank Global and President of Swiftrank North America, the buyer for the project. I can hear the slot machines calling my name… Okay, back to reality, sorry!

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread. Could they make businesses out of it? People here started talking about things.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

The 2000 collapse followed a period of manic investing when entrepreneurs with off-the-wall ideas and ridiculous or nonexistent business plans sought and received funding from ill-informed investors blinded by the magical aura of the Internet or just simple greed. Beale Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share What They’re Thankful For

Hearpreneur

8- Community. A community is all around us comprised of diverse people who are all looking for the same thing: to belong to a community of people. As an entreprenuer I have found the deeper sense of community and find the face of community in many forms and in many places. 22- Our Small Business Community.