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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Many small-business owners, who often pay taxes at the individual level, appreciate the fact the state has no personal income tax.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Many small-business owners, who often pay taxes at the individual level, appreciate the fact the state has no personal income tax.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Many small-business owners, who often pay taxes at the individual level, appreciate the fact the state has no personal income tax.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We Programs are offered in both online, in-person, and hybrid format with cohorts of leadership teams for an average of 10 companies.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

The Cartoon Network is known as much for outrageous marketing as it is for outrageous content. In 2007 one of Cartoon Network’s marketing firms launched a new campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a show featuring characters represented as fast-food containers, including one called Frylock and another named Meatwad.

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Is the House Crowdfunding Bill Being Killed in the Senate?

Scott Edward Walker

House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook. May Startups Raise Funds via Crowdfunding?

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.