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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We also wanted to get our Spanish speaking skills from conversational to fluent. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. We’d backpacked through Argentine Patagonia a few years prior, and during that time heard great things about Buenos Aires.

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On The Road Again

Feld Thoughts

I had dinner with my brother Daniel and my cousin Kenny (who lives here) last night at the original Ted’s Montana’s Grill that’s on the corner of Luckie Street and Ted Turner Drive. The conversation was intense and wonderful. We sat in the booth next to the one Ted frequents.

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Now Is The Time To Prepare Your Business For A Natural Disaster

YoungUpstarts

Simultaneously, people in Oregon, Montana and Idaho are dealing with forest fires brought on by the driest conditions these states have seen in decades. Once you do get through to them, you should have a long and honest conversation with them about what exactly your business does and does not do on a daily basis.

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The Real Story Of America Is About Small

VC Adventure

Now, with his wife, Claire, he owns a guide company in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. Claire Cheff calls their guide business a calling; it was founded almost 100 years ago by Mark Cheff’s grandparents, a Montana cowboy and a Salish outdoorswoman. Cheff has been a smokejumper, and owned a construction company.

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Unlocking Your Company’s Growth Engine w/ Conversion Rate Optimization w/ Sean Ellis

ConversionXL

I’m Sean Ellis & I’d like to tell you how Conversion Rate Optimization played a critical role as the growth engine for the companies I’ve worked with. Conversion is a process not an event” – Bryan Eisenberg. Joe Montana won four titles in his career. “Joe Montana was a product of the system.

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Guns and Preventable Suicides

Diego Basch

I’m not going to claim expertise in the subject, most of what I know comes from conversations with my father ; he was a psychiatrist who treated suicidal patients for decades. On one extreme we see states like Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. Others are not so planned. Perhaps they are not spontaneous, but they are more preventable.

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What eCommerce Startups Need to Know About Online Sales Tax

Up and Running

It can be helpful to have a conversation with a tax or accounting professional to help you make sure that you understand your full tax obligations, but here are the different business taxes you might need to know about: Estimated taxes. There are five states that do not charge sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.