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Before You Buy a Hotel Business, Answer These 4 Questions

Up and Running

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. Some hotel chains are leveraging IBM analytics technology to collect transactional and customer data into a central repository.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. Poort (Rescale): Business school is probably more useful for those not founding a company. Tom Eisenmann.

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

Up and Running

This is why ancillary marijuana businesses are doing so well—they aren’t burdened with all the red tape and high taxes. From hydroponics and cultivation products to professional training and education, consultancies, media companies, the plethora of new technologies—the list is endless, and so are the opportunities.

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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. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM. blog internships. This is a great blog,this website provides very useful tips.we Thanks Jeff blog internships. December 29, 2009 9:11 AM. Great job, Professor Bennet!

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. For business owners and investors alike, crisis and change create opportunities. Millennials haven’t had to adapt to new technologies. At the end of June, U.S.

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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

If you're in the technology business, that's like sacred ground. But my original background was in technology. They were trying to figure out how to monetize a lot of the technology that they had. Could they make businesses out of it? Right now, we have the technology to do it. Weren't you an intern at PARC?