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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. Idaho may be known for potatoes, but it should also be known as a stellar place to start a business. Government is a large employer—given the state’s proximity to Washington, D.C.—and

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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. These include Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah. The Size of Your Business Might Matter.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. His description: “We announced a new $500 million fund in Q1 of 2019, in our 10th year. to 3.0x.”. .”

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Rural Broadband Necessary for Rural Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Rural areas have been neglected by both commercial companies and the government. I don’t want this to be a government service, but any port in the storm. Local governments are smart enough to insist on getting cable access in the village, but they often neglect the farmers just one mile out of town.

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Innovation, like eggs, is cheaper in the country

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Our government allocated part of the 2.9 Philo Farnsworth, the Idaho farm boy, helped invent TV. It’s a private company solving a problem –nothing like a win-win free market solution to beat wasteful government spending eh? It’s not. Millions of rural Americans have no, or quite poor, web access.

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Is the Campus and Oasis or Not: WSJ Unclear

Campus Entrepreneurship

Floyd, president of the area’s largest employer, Washington State University, which is eight miles from the region’s second-largest employer, the University of Idaho. This is a bigger government footprint, proportionally, than in Virginia’s Fairfax and Arlington counties, long considered ground zero for Washington, D.C.,

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