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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. Personal relationships do count.

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When Planning A Startup, A Top Priority Is Location

Startup Professionals Musings

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. Personal relationships do count.

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4 Key Questions To Identify Your Ideal Startup Site

Startup Professionals Musings

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. Personal relationships do count.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. Personal relationships do count.

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How To Find The Best City For Your Type Of Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

I had some limited knowledge about search engine marketing, but knew nothing about marketing in a more general sense. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. We’d never had anyone pay us for a product or a service.

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