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Rusty Tweed Explores How Sustainability is Impacting the Construction Industry

The Startup Magazine

The push is spurred by a growing body of evidence linking green building characteristic with the ability to attract tenants and increase rental incomes and property sales prices. Risk mitigation – governments all around the work have set regulatory requirements for buildings such as a ban on inefficient buildings and mandatory disclosures.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use. Today UEC Electronics has increased its workforce more than tenfold, from that original 10 to now 115, and is considered a key government contractor.

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Good riddance to non-competes

OnlyOnce

Normally, I’m in favor of small government and fewer regulations, but this is one where I think the government has a legitimate interest in setting up guardrails to a free market. We started off at Return Path years ago with a standard and fairly benign non-compete because they were standard.

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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

This initiative is starting with a $45 million pilot program that encourages collaboration between the government and industry for more support of new innovation in manufacturing and growth for the economy. Recent months have seen impressive auto sales figures, and that momentum is expected to continue for some time. Auto industry.

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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

Up and Running

A study co-sponsored by Crawford International and HR.com in Palo Alto, California in 2006 found that “companies that create adaptive corporate cultures outperform companies with non-adaptive cultures by a factor of 900 to 1 as measured by long term net income and stock price growth.” Are sales growing or shrinking?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. It seemed that back then the US government recognized the importance of attracting the best and brightest from around the world. The world’s best brains are on sale. He was fortunate.

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Bizshark Helps You Search For Business Contacts (Or Sales Leads)

YoungUpstarts

If you’re not aware, Pasedena, California-based online business search platform Bizshark ( www.bizshark.com ) has a business contact search platform that helps business-to-business (B2B) sales professionals, small businesses, freelancers, journalists and others who are looking for a way to create and manage business relationships.

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