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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

YoungUpstarts

The Federal R&D credit amounts to roughly 5% of the wages, materials, and outside contractor expenses in research activities related to product and software development, including: Product conceptualization and development. Software development and testing — including embedded, SaaS, PaaS, APIs, etc. Developing software.

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What Are The Hallmarks of a Successful Nonprofit?

Board Effect

Patrick Rooney, a professor of economics and philanthropic studies at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, told the Chronicle, “Uncertainty is the enemy of investment in the capitalistic sector, but it’s also the enemy of investment in the philanthropic sector.”

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How to Navigate the New Era of Customer Expectations

Duct Tape Marketing

When you know way more about your operations and the customer knows, the bigger that gap is, the more customer anxiety grows and the more anxiety grows, the more frustration builds and the more frustration builds, they're less likely to give you money. So Drift is one of the largest providers of chatbot software in the world.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

ReadWriteStart

JBara Software , a SaaS-based customer retention tool. One of the applicants that didn't make the initial cut and is re-applying is Intellitek Systems in Fort Wayne, Indiana; operating at break even with five employees selling SMB ERP packaged software. Gremln.com , a social media consolidation and analytics tool.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

I got fired from a software sales job, started a systems integrator called MicroSolutions. In the mid-90s, late '94, early '95 my buddy and I were trying to figure out the best way to listen to Indiana basketball and we had to have a speakerphone where we had one set up in Bloomington, Indiana, one in Dallas, Texas.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Operations. Accounting and Billing Software. Production Software. Software and Hardware. Circulation/Audience Development. Art/Creative/Design. Finance/Accounting. Business Development. Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Marketing/Communications/PR. Production/Printing/Manufacturing. Companys Focus. Association Publishing.

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

online.wsj.com

Computer Software. 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. Computer & Software Services. Software. -