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4 American Cities That Want Your Business

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As local governments work to transform their regulatory environments into ones that promote and nurture the establishment and growth of small businesses, it’s becoming easier to measure and rank their efforts. Manchester, New Hampshire. Note: These are selections based on my personal opinion. What cities made the cut?

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Leveraging Nonprofit Strategic Partnerships

Board Effect

Nonprofit boards can utilize strategic partnerships to scale, strengthen their programs, streamline operations, and increase their influence.?. Without the benefit of strategic partnerships, many nonprofits find it challenging and painstakingly slow to scale their operations. example of a strategic partnership ?in

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Board Self-Evaluation Sample

Board Effect

Board self-evaluations help to shape governance principles. By contrast, the evaluation process should be rigorous enough to test the board’s composition, dynamics, structure and operations. Governance that guides public companies often becomes best practices for all other organizations.

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What eCommerce Startups Need to Know About Online Sales Tax

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Follow internet business tax laws to stay compliant with applicable government agencies, like the IRS and your state. Basically, your business is the middle-man between consumers and the government. There are five states that do not charge sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon. The end user (i.e.,

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

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April 2, 2013: Thumbtack.com , in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, today released the second-annual Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey showing that Utah, Alabama, New Hampshire, Idaho and Texas rated as the top-five friendliest states for small business. Trainer – Salt Lake City, UT.

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Why Nuance Is Giving It Away

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Bloomberg Government. Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And for iPhone devel-opers in particular, there were few other options. Google ( GOOG ) , for instance, makes high-quality voice recognition software available to appmakers for free, but it only supports apps built for its Android operating system. Bloomberg.com.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

I trust her to hear out the community, gather all the data, and, unlike our current Towering Ineptitude, actually make a decision—one that she believes is right for New York, not just politically popular. That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. New Yorkers are hard. Kathryn is exceedingly practical.

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