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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Austin in particular is a technological and cultural hub.

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Rural Broadband Necessary for Rural Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

What he missed is a Lack of Rural Technology Infrastructure. Case cites “advancements in technology” as one reason flyover areas are having, and will have more, start-ups. Well, yes, but it’s not a given they’ll get access to that technology. It’s not universal. It’s not universal.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. Bigfoot Capital.

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Innovation, like eggs, is cheaper in the country

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Our government allocated part of the 2.9 Philo Farnsworth, the Idaho farm boy, helped invent TV. It’s a private company solving a problem –nothing like a win-win free market solution to beat wasteful government spending eh? The technology is wireless, and, it’s broadband. It’s not.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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Is the Campus and Oasis or Not: WSJ Unclear

Campus Entrepreneurship

Floyd, president of the area’s largest employer, Washington State University, which is eight miles from the region’s second-largest employer, the University of Idaho. This is a bigger government footprint, proportionally, than in Virginia’s Fairfax and Arlington counties, long considered ground zero for Washington, D.C.,

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Whats on your technology toolbelt? more in Small Business. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. All Rights Reserved.