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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent. Personal relationships do count.

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When Planning A Startup, A Top Priority Is Location

Startup Professionals Musings

Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent. Personal relationships do count.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

While these activities shape and build culture, they don’t win wars, and rarely deliver shippable or deployable products. It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints.

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4 Key Questions To Identify Your Ideal Startup Site

Startup Professionals Musings

Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by almost 65%. Personal relationships do count.

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Elemind: Wearable AI offers ‘electric medicine’ via brain stimulation

ReadWriteStart

Elemind has dubbed the approach “electric medicine”, created through partnerships with multiple leading research institutions from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College London, Harvard Medical School and the University of California at Berkeley.

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The Pitfalls Of State And Local Taxation For Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

Our product is delivered electronically; sales tax doesn’t apply to us.”. “We Alabama, South Dakota, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Vermont and Wyoming have all adopted economic nexus rules effective during 2017 or prior with regard to sales and use tax. The sale of software isn’t subject to sales tax.”. North Dakota , 504 U.S.

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. The six-week immersive program offers four tracks: software development, marketing, sales and business development, and product design. But there is more to it than that.

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