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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

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With low operation costs and a large banking sector, Sioux Falls is receiving national attention as a great place to start a business. Oklahoma City, OK. Ranked third by WalletHub, Oklahoma City has also been found to be a great city for STEM professionals, entrepreneurial women, and small tech businesses. SCORE Oklahoma City.

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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

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Name your favorite musical; odds are these guys wrote it. The coming-together of these two musical virtuosos resulted in a 16-year partnership that produced instant classics like Oklahoma! What we can learn from them: There is no such thing as a self-made man. Rogers and Hammerstein.

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

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The Flaming Lips and Economic Development

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

As many of you know I’ve participated in the annual State of Creativity Forum in Oklahoma for several years. It’s in just a few weeks, so register, and make plans now to arrive in Oklahoma City for the March 31st one day event. Oklahoma City has turned the corner on talent exporting, let me explain.

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A VC Puts On His Equity Crowdfunding Hat

YoungUpstarts

Equity crowdfunding is likely to work more effectively for startups that require single rounds of thousands and plan to operate as a growing concern, rather than those requiring multiple rounds of millions in startup capital with goals of being acquired or going public via IPO. SEC definitions and rules. Disclosures. Legal advice and fees.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. at Oklahoma State University and his MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Dr. Altounian earned his Ph.D.

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Small Business and Startups: Prepare For the Worst

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The point is that every business should take the time to think through how an emergency could affect your business and what you would need to do to keep operations going. Critical to any disaster plan is the COOP, or Continuity of Operations Plan. Your region may have specific types of disasters that are more likely than others.