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

Up and Running

If you know that you will need a large amount of outside financing to start your business, you may want to consider Lincoln, Nebraska. If you are interested in starting a business in Lincoln, check out these resources: Starting a Business in Nebraska. Nebraska One-Stop Business. Community Development Resources Nebraska.

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[Review] Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets

YoungUpstarts

Known for sticking to long-term rather than short-term investments, Buffett prefers to address the fundamentals rather than adopt technical analyses of businesses (he poo poos much of the investment banking community). Quoting from the book: “.if

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Open to All: Scholarships for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

We’re interested not only in bringing folks to San Francisco, but also in helping Lean Startup communities take root beyond Silicon Valley. Individuals can apply, but the scholarship application form is designed for a community leader to bring in a group from a geographic area or from an incubator/accelerator program.

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College Is Like A Sandbox

Feld Thoughts

All of them were really lit up about entrepreneurship, were trying lots of stuff, had tons of questions, and challenged us to give them our views and feedback on what Ann Arbor needed to do to create a great entrepreneurial community. At the end of the day we met with all the members in TechArb.

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VolunteerSpot Raises $1.5M Financing

Austin Startup

The company creates online volunteer tools designed to help busy moms, teachers and nonprofit leaders easily mobilize and coordinate volunteers in their communities.

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

It's similar to the way LinkedIn started with Reid Hoffman and the network of Silicon Valley VC's that initially populated the service or the network of developers who were following Joel Spolsky and began the Stack Overflow community. If it doesn’t scale, you’ll wind up with Nebraska soccer moms adding Champion tube socks from Walmart.com.

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

It's similar to the way LinkedIn started with Reid Hoffman and the network of Silicon Valley VC's that initially populated the service or the network of developers who were following Joel Spolsky and began the Stack Overflow community. Is that a good thing? Can you design around it? Do you want to?