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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups. Myth #2: All startups are technology companies.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. B corp, or Benefit Corporation.

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6 Things to Consider Before Entering a Market

Up and Running

” My printing, promotion, and marketing company offers a real-life example: We had customers who had to coordinate printing, promotional products, distribution, and fulfillment to thousands of their retail locations. They were making multiple phone calls and dealing with hundreds of emails.

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What is an L3C?

Up and Running

Currently, you can form an L3C in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, and in the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Pros of The L3C Structure.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

Or Monroe, Montana? But you’re also mistaken: There is no Monroe, Montana. It costs less than $100 per year to run a website, and—unlike the print publishing era—no reputable editor or printing costs stand in the way of immediate, uncensored, worldwide distribution. How much do you know about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?

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Technology versus market risk in angel investments - Startups and.

Tim Keane

.   I talked to a company recently that had market risk in the educational business but also had a distribution agreement with a big player.   Greg Gianforte at RightNow Technologies in Bozeman, Montana (recently sold to Oracle) is a famous proponent of bootstrapping for this exact reason.

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

ConversionXL

If you follow American football with any regularity you’ve surely heard of Joe Montana & Dan Marino. Joe Montana won four titles in his career. San Francisco 49ers Coach Bill Walsh said of the two quarterbacks (of which he coached Montana). “Joe Montana was a product of the system. image source.