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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

Utah businesses benefit from low corporate taxes, business friendly regulations and energy costs 29 percent lower than the national average. Additionally, the tech startup community has grown so quickly that Utah has a new nickname: The Silicon Slopes. North Carolina. Uniquely, one third of the workforce is bilingual.

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Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce

Austin Startup

The company frequently works with non-profit organizations to provide safe, interactive training to community members looking to launch or advance their careers. They also work closely with the Home Builders Institute (HBI)’s nationwide workforce development program.

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Stop Fighting What You Don’t Love And Outsource The Nonessential

YoungUpstarts

Outsourcing allows me to protect that community. If there’s a snowstorm in North Carolina that knocks out FedEx or UPS deliveries for several days (which actually happened last month), I can just transfer orders to our production facility in Los Angeles. Outsourcing helps things run smoothly. Outsourcing saves money.

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Floods, Water Quality in Central Texas/NC/FL and Crowdfunding A Solution.

Austin Startup

‘Never Waste A Crisis’ Stages of Varuna Development In the last few months flood related water quality issues have ravaged Austin (more below), North Carolina , Florida , and many other states/countries outside the US. The EPA classifies 52,000 community water systems and 21,400 not-for-profit non-community water systems.

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“Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) But Will Define Media This Decade

Hunter Walker

Second, that community is the most powerful retention mechanism available to game developers, because you see, these “soldiers” were players in an online WWII multiplayer simulation. had really emphasized how much play was about community. First, that most people have no idea what real Mexican food tastes like. each month).

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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

Up and Running

By measuring various metrics like business survival rate, the prevalence of investors, and labor cost, they were able to determine which cities offer the best outlook for new ventures. With low operation costs and a large banking sector, Sioux Falls is receiving national attention as a great place to start a business.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He got his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, and BSc at Auburn University in 1980. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.