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How to Be Ready for What’s Next

Duct Tape Marketing

Search for your unique .site Questions I ask Chuck Swoboda: What do you mean by innovation should solve a problem? Which route should you take innovation or invention? How do you convince people innovation is a good thing when it means change and they resist naturally? You too can get your very own .site site domain for as low as $1.99.

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Executive Transition Toolkit: Documenting a Successful Executive Search

Board Effect

Research from North Carolina State University found some nonprofit executives leave for “voluntary retirement,” but almost three-quarters depart for other reasons. The Board’s Role in Executive Search. Search Spotlight. You’re not off the hook, however, if your CEO or executive director was born after the boom.

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How to Choose a Business Location

Up and Running

Things that could impact your search for a business location. A simple Google search should turn up a zoning map of your area as well. Here’s an example permit for the city of Winston-Salem in North Carolina. When you search for a local business in Google (e.g. Give it a try. Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon.

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LLC Costs and Fees You Need to Know as a Small Business Owner

Up and Running

Business name search. Next, check that the name is available by doing a name search with your Secretary of State. percent in North Carolina to 11.5 How much you’ll pay depends on the state where you form your LLC and whether you hire a professional to help you. And be sure you follow any naming rules your state requires.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

— Wayne set his sights on entrepreneurship when he was a teen, working in the tobacco fields of North Carolina: I remember working in the tobacco field one morning. North Carolina is big basketball country, a big basketball world like ACC, Duke, UNC. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. It was maybe 100 degrees.

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The Importance of Trademarking

Up and Running

Why run a trademark search? A trademark search is incredibly important, because if you’re looking to trademark a slogan, word, or logo that’s already in use by someone else, you could be sued for trademark infringement. You can conduct a registered trademark search here.

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

Because the Internet has such a long memory and documents from the distant past can be found with ease, a search the “The Berkus Method” today will yield any number of conflicting valuation criteria and element amounts culled from the many subsequent publications of the method over the ensuing years. The Method should allow for this.