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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The United States is not uniform in its friendliness toward small businesses, and some states make operating a business easier than others. The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. Government is a large employer—given the state’s proximity to Washington, D.C.—and

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. 30% have been operated by females, 70% have been operated by males. 40% have been operated by “visible minorities”, 60% have been operated by “non-visible minorities”. The average cash balance is $191,164. Growth support.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models.

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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? WISP’s are not that new, but up until now most of them are mom and pop operations.

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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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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

entrepreMusings

April 2, 2013: Thumbtack.com , in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, today released the second-annual Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey showing that Utah, Alabama, New Hampshire, Idaho and Texas rated as the top-five friendliest states for small business. Trainer – Salt Lake City, UT.