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Startup Accelerator/Funding Opportunity: AEP’s IlluminationLAB

The Startup Magazine

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting American Electric Power in the launch of its IlluminationLAB global innovation program for technology entrepreneurs. Companies, entrepreneurs and startups from around the globe are encouraged to apply. Source: AEP.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Passion for sport and entertainment industry. My dad was a serial entrepreneur and had a business in the home security industry. 22-Attract back young entrepreneurs. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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5 Biggest Mistakes in Healthcare Staffing by Susanne Mariga, CPA

Mike Michalowicz

These are individuals who are truly steering the pack with their excellence in operations, experience, and revolutionary ideas. Scot Thompson warns that Healthcare Staffing Firms operate in a complex everchanging multistate regulated environment and the failure to maintain that compliance can be detrimental.

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How To Start An LLC

YoungUpstarts

However, getting there can prove confusing for first-time entrepreneurs. In Ohio, for example, business owners must include the LLC name and address, the signature of the LLC’s registered agent (the person liable of the company) and the dissolution date. Create and File an Operating Agreement. by Rebecca Bernstein. Accounting.

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LaunchHouse Launches Startup Accelerator Program

YoungUpstarts

Shaker Heights, Ohio-based business incubator LaunchHouse is inviting ten technology startup teams from around the world to participate in a 12-week startup accelerator program. If selected, the teams will be required to relocate to Cleveland, Ohio and operate from LaunchHouse ‘s business incubator space for those 12 weeks.

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

Unfortunately, to many would-be entrepreneurs, getting past the dreaming phase and into the doing phase seems insurmountable — especially in a shaky economy where quitting your day job seems foolhardy and funding seems scarcer than, well, pay raises and affordable health insurance. Many a great entrepreneur has been derailed by burnout.

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Maximizing Profits in the Healthcare Staffing Industry by Susanne Mariga

Mike Michalowicz

He recommends that Staffing entrepreneurs be honest with themselves and with the people they hire. As a practicing CPA, I have seen many entrepreneurs so eager about getting a sale that they are willing to undercut their prices to a point that there is very little to show for it.

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