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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. Or, as a bigger fund, you could hire a placement agent--someone who specializes in helping you raise a fund. tanning salon/seed fund combo.

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How Startups Can Benefit From Cloud Accounting

YoungUpstarts

This means you can have all of the information at your fingertips whether you’re at the office or on vacation in Fiji. Cloud providers invest a lot in ensuring their service is able to provide the highest level of security and the most up-to-date technology to ensure the safe-keeping of your vital information.

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What living in different countries has taught me about life (and work)

Austin Startup

From running around Manhattan in 2008 selling to restaurants while the world economy was in tatters, to the first hire of a startup based out of Estonia, to my current role in Austin, Texas it sure has been a windy road. Looking at my career thus far, it has not followed a textbook game plan by any means.