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Exploring Tax Strategies For Small Businesses: Insights Inspired By Troy Renkemeyer’s Experiences

The Startup Magazine

Tailoring tax strategies to the specific structure of your business is fundamental to minimizing liabilities and maximizing returns, necessitating a nuanced understanding of the tax code and its application to each type of business entity.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features.

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How To Turn Your Social Media Traffic Into e-Commerce Revenue

YoungUpstarts

Studies show that shoppers’ purchasing decisions are largely influenced by information found on Social media platforms inform of reviews, comments and feedback, particularly from their own friends. However, the real value for an e-commerce business or any other business comes when social media traffic is converted into revenue.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Some food banks saw demand 3-4x normal, just as their volunteer base shrunk due to worries about COVID-19 infection. I was in the group due to my involvement (with Brent Summers) in launching GiveLocal, a site where customers could support their favorite restaurants through COVID lockdowns by buying gift cards.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community. You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model. Minimize one-time sales in your business model.

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Surviving Chargeback Fraud — How to Keep Your Business Safe

Up and Running

It’s been a challenging year, and small businesses face different difficulties, from having to shut due to Covid-19 to the struggles of securing Government loans to stay afloat. You made the sale, accounted for the revenue already, only to be forced to give back the money and even pay a fee on top of it all.