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The Simplicity Cure: Why True Employee Engagement Lies In The Little Things

YoungUpstarts

He just broke our Nashua, New Hampshire, store’s all-time sales record. After graduating from Tufts University, he joined the family business and spent the next eighteen years helping to grow it to new heights. I just want to tell you that your husband and dad is incredible! Guys, that is tremendous!

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. However, those angels constitute only about 4% of the estimated 7.1 million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I grew up on a dairy farm in rural New Hampshire. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Using the word assertive exemplifies that and we added media to explain clearly what kind of company that we were. Thanks to Daniel Foley, Assertive Media ! #25- 25- After the family farm. Photo Credit: Link Moser.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. On Monday, we are going back to the New Hampshire Mountains for what I think will be our 8th quarterly team offsite. That was a couple years ago. OUR INDUSTRY.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

New England Investment Network. This is an online platform connecting entrepreneurs based in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, with Angel investors worldwide. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. New England Investment Network. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

She was a cultural critic at the New York Times and writing about YouTube in a way that no one else was. About its communities, content niches, the aesthetic of the first wave of user content. HW: As a kid, you had the geographic serendipity to grow up in Hanover, New Hampshire, one of the first towns wired to the Internet.