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

Up and Running

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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Preventing Stupid: 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask

YoungUpstarts

In western Oklahoma there are many companies depending on oil production for their livelihood. Failure due to ignorance regarding your business can strike either the management side or the operations side of a business. Catastrophes are the natural and man-made disasters that originate outside your business and hinder your goals.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

When we set-up our next business our first decision was to operate with a remote workforce. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Sokolovsky also operated an on-demand food delivery startup based in Berkeley, before entering eCommerce logistics.

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

YoungUpstarts

The coming-together of these two musical virtuosos resulted in a 16-year partnership that produced instant classics like Oklahoma! Name your favorite musical; odds are these guys wrote it. State Fair , South Pacific , The King and I , and The Sound of Music. It’s also the only team that doesn’t officially exist.

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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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Taking A Chance On Life

YoungUpstarts

After years owning and operating my own companies, I found myself at age sixty-four in a senior executive position with a manufacturing and distribution company, doing work I liked and making a contribution. By age 25 he had founded an insurance agency that became one of the largest in Oklahoma.

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Small Business and Startups: Prepare For the Worst

crowdSPRING Blog

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.