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Digital Health Becoming a Reality

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I got responses back for DailyBurn, The Daily Plate and LoseIt (quick aside: on Twitter Bryce Roberts had send me the link to LoseIt but I couldn’t remember the name so I searched Twitter. Then I found out that Dave McClure had already invested along with many others in a Silicon Valley seed round even though the company is in Alabama.

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Are You Hiding Behind Your Business Name?

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Even if you aren’t a corporation or an LLC, your state government may have rules about what business name you can use. If your name is John Smith and you run a business called Smith House Painters , then you’re using a business alias (also known as a “trade name”). Why Have a Business Name? Why Must I Register?

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Your No Fear Career

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For example, I left my Midwest hometown of Cleveland, Ohio to go to the Deep South and attend the University of Alabama. I made a name for myself at Turner Networks as a Media Marketing Specialist on the team that launched TNT and turned CNN into “The World’s News Leader.” The things I do are fearless on another level.

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It’s Back & Better Than Ever! Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator

View from Seed

Higher: Birmingham, Alabama . Instead, the sole goal of the program is results , namely: Demonstrably advancing a startup towards true product-market fit. This model has produced a wide array of geographic diversity at a national scale, which we are aiming to replicate in the upcoming cohort. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington.

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5 Tips To Find Diverse Candidates That Make Dollars And Sense

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companies are named John (5.3%) than there are CEOs who are women (4.1%); there is not even a single solitary openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company; and Career Builder found that only 35% of women feel confident that compensation is dispensed equitably between the genders. Play the long game.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

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When asked to name a time when his business struggled the most, Keith Ferguson quickly points to the economic recession. In the waste management sector, unemployment in 2009 and 2010 hit 10.5 and 11 percent , respectively—double what it was in 2008, and triple what it was in 2005.

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

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