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

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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Your city doesn’t have a startup community? Start one!

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. Everywhere I look I’m amazed at the companies I find in really unexpected places,” says Nate Olson, a specialist in entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and co-founder of 1MillionCups.

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Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

But nothing Ive read so far really does justice to what I witnessed in Colorado and Nevada. Yet, I believe it was Obamas superior agility that led to a decisive 12-point margin in Arapahoe County, CO: I want to say thanks to everyone on the campaign, from the candidate on down to the paid staff and volunteers that I got to work with.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co. Countries such as Canada have also adopted aggressive payroll tax holidays for engineering roles, effectively reducing the cost of employing an engineer by about 50%.