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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. Oklahoma City, OK. Ranked third by WalletHub, Oklahoma City has also been found to be a great city for STEM professionals, entrepreneurial women, and small tech businesses. Lincoln, NE.

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More New Builders Events! Tattered Cover Bookstore (and more!)

VC Adventure

First, we’re taking over the Instagram account for Commonplace Books in Oklahoma City for the entire day today (4/27/21, but the archive will remain there if you’re reading this later). We’ll be telling the stories and introducing some of the entrepreneurs working in Oklahoma City that we write about in the book.

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State of Creativity Forum is an Innovation Accelerant

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I’ve been involved* these past two years with a creativity conference in Oklahoma, now called the State of Creativity Forum. Even the governor, Mary Fallin, was there to support the notion that creativity and innovation is how Oklahoma moves forward. It’s all taking place November 13th in Oklahoma City.

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TechStars Patriot Boot Camp Is Happening This Week

Feld Thoughts

About 75 veterans who are active or aspiring entrepreneurs have already been accepted and will be attending. But of course the biggest thanks are due to these entrepreneurs themselves, for their service to our country. Miyasaki, Oklahoma State University. from July 18-20. Matt Talbot, GoSpotCheck. Matt Thompson, TroopSwap.

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An Entrepreneur’s Moving Guide: 10 Best U.S. States To Consider

The Startup Magazine

A successful entrepreneur’s life is full of new opportunities and discoveries, financial growth, and of course, the many challenges of the business world. Of course, if you’re an entrepreneur who’s just started on your journey, dreaming of reaching all of these, you need to put in a lot of work before you can enjoy success.

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Entrepreneurs, Commit Not These 7 Deadly Sins

YoungUpstarts

There’s a lot of focus these days on teaching entrepreneurs how to do startups right : Validate the market before you build a prototype. The truth is, there are “wrong” mistakes that entrepreneurs can make early in the game, mistakes that will impact a startup’s ability to attract capital investment later on. Conserve cash.

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Twitter Link Roundup #188 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Richard Branson on Business Lessons From Parenting | Entrepreneur – [link]. Six Whopping Lies Told About Entrepreneurs … Sometimes By Entrepreneurs Themselves | Forbes – [link]. Oklahoma Surgery Center makes surgery pricing transparent to customers – [link]. Startup Investing Trends – [link].