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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

These include Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri (all businesses except construction), Tennessee (if not construction, coal mining, or trades), West Virginia (if agriculture), In Florida, if you have an agricultural business and have six (6) or more employees and twelve (12) or more seasonal employees , you must carry workers’ compensation insurance.

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Announcing our investment in SilviaTerra, a precision forestry startup

Version One Ventures

He received forestry training at Mississippi State and a graduate degree at the Yale School of Forestry. The story starts with CEO Zack Parisa who grew up in the woods of northern Alabama. Since childhood, Zack knew that he wanted to spend his life among the trees. We co-led the $4.4M Also, SilviaTerra is hiring !

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

She is an author and founding partner of Y Combinator, which Lovd.com (W21) was lucky enough to be a part of as well as 3,500 other companies including Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox and many others. He launched his company with his business partner, Josh Sherrell, right before the pandemic hit in 2020. 27- John Burk.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eight universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , and later this year University of Southern California and Columbia University. Hacking for Journalism at Stanford.

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

online.wsj.com

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Mississippi. Mississippi. the previous year. Comcast Corp., Massachusetts.

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners. At various points his Special Forces career took him to countries in Southeast Asia where counterinsurgency was not just academics.

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Smartsynch raises $20 Million (Jackson, Mississippi)

Jason Ball

Valley Partners, Endeavor Capital Management, GulfSouth Capital,?Southern Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment led a $20 million round of?series series E financing for SmartSynch. Other round investors included Siemens Venture Capital, Beacon Group, and OPG Ventures, Innovation?Valley Southern Farm Bureau, and Battelle Ventures.