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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

Still relatively young compared to many well-known nonprofits, Crisis Text Line is an example of a successful nonprofit that saw a real need and used the available technology and resources to shape their solution. Demand for Digital Transformation Tolerance for out-of-date technology is running low for all audiences.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app.

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A Boom Time for Education Start-Ups | Chronicle of Higher Education | #Edtech #hackedu

Campus Entrepreneurship

Nick DeSantis of the Chronicle of Higher Education writes about the incredible surge in investing in education technology start-ups. The boom really took off in 2009, when venture capitalists pushed $150-million more into education-technology firms than they did in the previous year, even as the economy sank into recession.

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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

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