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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

Up and Running

If you are a female entrepreneur, pay extra attention to Grand Rapids, which WalletHub ranks as the second best city to start a business in. If you know that you will need a large amount of outside financing to start your business, you may want to consider Lincoln, Nebraska. Nebraska One-Stop Business. SCORE Sioux Falls.

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[Review] Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets

YoungUpstarts

Written in a simple, storytelling fashion interspersed with little stories and anecdotes from Buffett’s management style, the book seems more suited for entrepreneurs and new managers than experienced leaders although some of its precepts are timeless. Delegate Authority (and Choose the Best Employees). Quoting from the book: “.if

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Legal Protection: 5 Things to Consider Before Opening a Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

States such as Nebraska, New York and Arizona have such rules in place. Any wise entrepreneur understands the importance of insuring their workers. Most states require business owners that have more than 5 employees to ensure their workers in a multitude of ways. Understand the Importance of Ensuring Your Workers.

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Trusting Your Gut Can Be A Dangerous Move. Here’s Why…

Mike Michalowicz

There are more success stories than I can count that rely on entrepreneurs who trusted their instincts and profited handsomely. The president of the company decides to forego the urban center of New York City in favor of the grass roots appeal of a small town in Nebraska. For the record, I’m a big fan of trusting your gut.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. And the entrepreneurs are moving there too. Austin Ventures was a great VC firm but entrepreneurs only had one place to turn for funding and it was hard to attract capital from outside Texas.

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

online.wsj.com

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

In many of these cases, the funds or the accelerators want to put in $100,000 to $500,000 in select ventures but are having a hard time finding mature entrepreneurs to support. Announce one or two $100,000 prizes that only those entrepreneurs who have gone through and completed at least 60 hours of 1M/1M curriculum would be eligible for.