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Are You Hiding Behind Your Business Name?

YoungUpstarts

Even if you aren’t a corporation or an LLC, your state government may have rules about what business name you can use. Also, you’ll want a business bank account in your trade name, to keep your business finances separate from your personal – your tax accountant and the IRS will love you for it. Are you hiding behind your website?

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

We assume it will be a 2-3 day discussion, but may be much longer, because of the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government overall. Dickinson: 3 amendments likely to be offered: 1) Financing 2) Schumer, at request of financial services sector, is thinking of bringing an amendment to the floor re: business method patents.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. Those topics don’t come up every single day.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. Those topics don’t come up every single day.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

Robert and I talked about how it's working, the science of pseudoviruses and reporter genes, how his father's example in science and business set him on his path, and how to bridge the gap between science and finance. He went to the same school I did, Georgia Tech, and studied electrical engineering. Robert Rhinehart : I did.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Promotions, Opportunities and Gratitude for 2019

Austin Startup

Gratitude Outgoing Chief Operating Officer Georgia Thomsen Georgia Thomsen will be moving on from the Chief Operating Officer position that she has held for the past four years. Georgia joined as our 8th employee and now our team is almost 10 times that size?—?mostly Georgia let me be crazy and helped everyone else stay sane.

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