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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

As the name would suggest, the nightly fee includes a hearty, home-cooked meal the next morning. Without the green light from the zoning commission, you will not be able to move forward. Business name and/or DBA registration. The state of the B&B industry: In the United States alone, the B&B industry is a $3.4

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How to Expand Your Cannabis Business Across State Lines

Up and Running

For the first time ever, you’ll order up an 1/8th of Gelato by Cookies, in Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, or even Detroit, and it’ll actually be the very same fire you fell in love with back in Cali. . The mentality of getting in and cashing out on the “green rush” is somewhat of a blinding force within the cannabis industry today.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. PayPal – people will use their insecure AOL and Yahoo email addresses to pay each other real money, backed by a non-bank with a cute name run by 20-somethings. We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes. Instagram – filters!

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Jonathon Triest of Ludlow Ventures: “VC Done Right” (and in Detroit)

Hunter Walker

You meet interesting people backstage at conferences and in 2013 that included Jonathon Triest who started Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures. I crowdsourced a logo, named the firm Ludlow after the street I grew up on as a kid, and made myself some business cards. HW: Sooooo Detroit VC scene. I was smitten. No turning back.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Infographics. Management. Electric cars.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time it was called the green movement. And a person I hired named Belinda Johnson, she was my general counsel, then she became my COO, now my board member. 500,000 to Detroit. You have to think about the user journeys, but its impact on the broader world. And when I got to RISD, there was this new movement happening.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Sydney Gressel : My name is Sydney Gressel, and I'm a nurse at UCSF in the Benioff Children's Hospital in the pediatric emergency department. Ryan Sarver : My name is Ryan Sarver. You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. Sydney Gressel : One of my favorite meditation teachers is a man named Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.