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7 Secrets To Help The Self-Employed Reduce Their Tax Bill

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Ashcraft, Director of Tax Compliance, Liberty Tax Service. Taxes can be complicated for most of us, but for the self-employed, they can get especially tricky. You need to know your business status, such as sole proprietor/independent contractor instead of an employee. For example, is your business really a business and not a hobby (Clue: Did it make a profit?).

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7 Useful Web Design Tips For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Effective web design involves creating a practical and aesthetically pleasing site. Here are 7 useful tips to keep in mind.

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Do you need data engineering before data science?

Version One Ventures

Last week, I shared some lessons learned from a Domino Data Science Pop-up that I attended a month ago. There were some very important discussions surrounding the world of data science today. One thread explored the differences between data science and data engineering. I’ll admit that I was completely unaware of the engineering behind data science when we first launched Insight Data Science back in 2012.

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Buying A Business? Clean Up Your Credit

YoungUpstarts

Your financial stability is based on your credit history. Your credit report information is used by scoring companies to provide your credit score. The latter plays a crucial role in determining the amount you should pay for a loan, whether you can get a loan at all, and your insurance rates. If you’re interested in opening a credit repair merchant account, consider turning to eMerchantBroker , the #1 high risk payment processor in the US.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Venture Deals 3rd Edition Available via Kindle Matchbook

Feld Thoughts

If you have purchased the hardcopy edition of Venture Deals 3rd Edition, you can now buy the Kindle version also for $2.99 via the Amazon Kindle Matchbook program. Jason and I have been asking our publisher (Wiley) for this for a while and we are psyched they’ve agreed to it. It came about after a number of you asked us if we were going to do this, so thanks to y’all for pushing us on it.

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6 Quick Marketing Tips For A Shoestring Budget

YFS Magazine

Every business needs a marketing plan. Thankfully, there are plenty of creative and cost-effective ways to reach customers and get your business noticed.

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If not convertible notes/SAFEs/term loans… then what?

Austin Startup

I love this picture. As far as I know, all credit for its existence is due here. Digital ink has been spilled across the interwebs these past two weeks on the issues with different types of venture financings. To briefly recap: 3/12 : Fred Wilson discussed why he dislikes convertible notes and SAFEs, and how priced equity rounds make more sense at the seed level. 3/20 : danprimack provided detail on Wal-mart/Jet.com’s acquisition of ModCloth, and how substituting (rather than supplementing) deb

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Complete XRM Buys Fanatic Software

SiliconHills

Fanatic Software, based in Cedar Park, now belongs to Complete XRM. The Salt Lake City-based Complete XRM did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Fanatic Software, founded in 1997, develops mobile and Mac applications. Its flagship product is the Pocket Informant Mac, iOS and Android productivity apps. It has more than four million […] The post Complete XRM Buys Fanatic Software appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Use Facebook Ads to Drive Sustainable Traffic & Boost Sales

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Use Facebook Ads to Drive Sustainable Traffic & Boost Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Regardless of your business model, incorporating Facebook ads into your marketing funnel can be a dependable way to drive customers to your site and, ultimately, boost sales. The concept is simple enough: You target prospective buyers on Facebook with an ad.

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