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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

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These include Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri (all businesses except construction), Tennessee (if not construction, coal mining, or trades), West Virginia (if agriculture), In Florida, if you have an agricultural business and have six (6) or more employees and twelve (12) or more seasonal employees , you must carry workers’ compensation insurance.

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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

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Many of the loans currently being made are going out to businesses of all sizes, including small businesses that are in a position to boost growth in the economy. According to eWeek , India-based tech firms support more than 280,000 jobs in the United states, concentrated primarily in California, Michigan, Texas, and Illinois.

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Startups and Small Business: 5 Things We Really Need From Politicians

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We hear a great deal of talk from the Presidential campaigns about what small businesses and startups really need to succeed. Every small business has its own distinct needs and it’s own unique problems. Many politicians blame business tax rates for our stagnating unemployment figures and overall economic malaise.

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

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Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Small Business » Subscriber Content Read Preview. Loading… Careers.

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Teenpreneurs: Lessons In Entrepreneurship Start Young

YoungUpstarts

Starting as young as middle school, experiential learning rooted in real world business scenarios is helping to shape the entrepreneurs of the future. Small businesses “employ more than 50 percent of the private workforce, generate more than half of the nation’s gross domestic product and are the principal source of new jobs in the U.S.

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An Entrepreneur – Not Just a Man (and Woman) with a Plan

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The best of them are led by deeply ambitious men and women walking the talk of American business. Now very importantly, not all small business people are entrepreneurs. In some ways, those that do so in the contexts of bigger business, philanthropy, and government are even more impressive than our obvious entrepreneurs.

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

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It’s a bit dated but still useful especially since Austin, Texas made the list for being one of the most friendly places for small businesses! Small Businesses Rate Utah and Alabama Friendliest States, California and Illinois Among Least Friendly. San Francisco, Calif.)