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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Idaho may be known for potatoes, but it should also be known as a stellar place to start a business. The state is geographically huge and boasts a diverse and growing population.

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Is the Campus and Oasis or Not: WSJ Unclear

Campus Entrepreneurship

Floyd, president of the area’s largest employer, Washington State University, which is eight miles from the region’s second-largest employer, the University of Idaho. taps UI engineering students for help developing its line of motorcycle accessories. Nowhere else in the U.S. GoNano Technologies Inc.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Additionally, in Colorado and elsewhere, there is a shortage of students entering STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. So I feel I have pretty good mix of horse sense and formal education.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

ReadWriteStart

To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year. This would do two things: contain the complexity of the systems Taariq has to work with right out of the gate, and help him go to market through the sales and marketing team of the analytics software vendors providing the core engine.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

He lives in a small town in Idaho, so he can find out from Census.gov how many families live in his town. You have visits that you assume through organic search engine optimization. He can find out what the demographic of those families is and he can find out how many of them make a certain amount of money.

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Mash-Ups for Innovation, a How To Guide

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

While steering a tractor, he looked back over his newly plowed field and noticed how the lines were traced by the plow in his Idaho potato field. It’s your intention and it starts your intuition engine. The idea of a scanned, or traced field on a cathode ray tube came to him when he was plowing a field.

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

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