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How to Deal With Insurance Companies after Being in a Boat Accident

The Startup Magazine

In Tennessee, boating has become increasingly popular, and with the great demand come rising insurance rates. Tennessee also has a shoreline that stretches more than 11,000 miles and is considered a mecca for boating and fishing enthusiasts. It’s the reason why many boat owners are encouraged to have boat insurance.

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Nonprofit Organizations: How They Work and What They Do

Board Effect

Nonprofit organizations exist in most communities and governments, businesses, and citizens support them in various ways for the overall benefit of the communities they serve. Nonprofit organizations are organized groups of people that form for the purpose of providing goods and services state and federal governments cannot do on their own.

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Creating an Amendment to Nonprofit Bylaws

Board Effect

Good governance practices demand that nonprofit boards review and make amendments to their bylaws annually to ensure sound leadership. Operating a nonprofit organization is similar to running a for-profit corporation in many ways. Or you could specify that the nonprofit has no members if that’s the case.).

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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. If you’re a freelancer operating as an independent contractor, by default your company name is your personal name. But most entrepreneurs want to operate under a business alias. Why Have a Business Name?

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You need these must-have clauses in your freelance contracts

The Next Web

You should have your client’s name, legal business name (if they are operating under a business), their physical address (if they have office space), their billing address (if not the same as physical), at least one but ideally two different contact numbers, and an email address. This is what I like to call the starter information.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I was actually operating without a name for the first 3 months until one day a client told me that I gave him the kick in the ass he needed. NSN Lookup was a high-volume search phrase for National Stock Numbers used by Governments and there was a low difficulty score in achieving a high ranking in Google Search Results.

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

online.wsj.com

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based New Hampshire.