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

Up and Running

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. Furthermore, Oklahoma City is one of the fastest growing U.S. Furthermore, Oklahoma City is one of the fastest growing U.S. SCORE Oklahoma City.

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The Best Places to Start a Business in 2015

Up and Running

Thanks to low corporate taxes, plentiful networking opportunities, and the low cost of living, we have to agree. Recent developments – including an influx of new college grads and the well-deserved (if you ask me) popularity of a TV show based in the city and bearing the same name as the city – have also made it cool again.

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How Best To Negotiate Your Time And The Time Of Others

YoungUpstarts

During this period, I called up anyone and everyone in my network and said, “Hey, can I take you to lunch? But one person in my network, a very powerful woman within the community, wouldn’t respond to my request. Once I knew that, I was able to send her a few resources and the name of a public speaking coach I knew well.

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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 affordable, the content is superb, and it’s a great networking opportunity. 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.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. Austin had one of the smaller networks of the nine metros examined and had a proportional share of venture funding as predicted by Metcalfe’s Law.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. In fact, I absolutely assumed that he was white because the only Braden I had ever known was a terrible Mets reliever from Oklahoma who was not a person of color.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Dallas (North) is the ninth largest city and was recently named the number one commercial real estate market in the US. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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