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Strategy Roundtable: Spotlight On Jacksonville, Florida

ReadWriteStart

150 people came together, and 17 businesses were formed. An additional 50 were on the wait-list, an evidence of the energy and enthusiasm that is bubbling in Florida right now. And small businesses would be more than happy to pay good money for such immediately actionable leads.

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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

And then, of course, other business owners stay aloof from customers for a different, more instinctual reason: In a digital age dominated by email and computer screens, they simply don’t know how to interact with customers face-to-face and avoid doing so at all costs. Do you wait days before responding to emails?

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Do any of these super angles reside in South Florida? Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination). 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar. Social Good Is as Easy as Texting 3 Ways Small Businesses are Investing. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Do any of these super angles reside in South Florida? Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination). 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar. Social Good Is as Easy as Texting 3 Ways Small Businesses are Investing. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Home-Based Businesses – A Look Back In Time To 1985 And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

Sure, some of the major corporations were all over it and had them already, but many small businesses didn’t. At the time, I had started a word processing business from home, so when I typed up a document for a client, and I made a mistake that couldn’t be fixed with white-out, I redid the entire document. I’m in Florida.)

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

YoungUpstarts

Here are 8 tips for developing an effective natural disaster preparedness plan for your business: 1. If you live in Florida, you may not need to prepare for a snow storm. 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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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

Taxfyle is an innovative consumer, small business and enterprise SaaS accounting-tech company. Richard: I was bitten by a shark on my chest while lobstering in the Florida Keys. Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor.

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