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5 Reasons to Wear a Seatbelt While Traveling

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For example, seat belt laws in Utah require all passengers to buckle up, with children below eight years old seated in a car seat. The shoulder and lap belt help distribute force instead of focusing it on one area. For businesses that have employee cars or commercial fleets, employee safety training can help deliver the message.

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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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Neff Headwear Makes Headway In Fashion And Culture

YoungUpstarts

Neff later moved to Utah to attend college at Brigham Young University , where his entrepreneurial adventure really took off. The company’s numbers speak for themselves – since December 2009, Neff Headwear ‘s expanded its distribution from 1,000 doors in 35 countries to approximately 3,500 doors in over 40 nations.

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How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

Utah is often cited as having excellent online applications and forms. Finally, they will outline the next two steps we’ll discuss below: board meetings and distribution of shares. . After those two, out-of-state popularity declines, though some other states are worth noting.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

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Utah Angels (Utah County). The distribution of groups in the survey includes a relatively representative sampling of angel groups across the US and Canada. CommonAngels (Boston). Average: 2.96. Median: 2.75. Number: 30. Three groups chose to provide only the overall median valuation.

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Mapping The Haystack Portfolio Across The United States

Haystack

Over the past year, and especially over the last few days, the Bay Area tech Twitter echo chamber has been tweeting about the advent of remote, or distributed, or satellite teams for their companies across the country and the world. Today, I am excited to share some data on the Haystack portfolio as it relates to geography.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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