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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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State of Creativity Forum is an Innovation Accelerant

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I’ve been involved* these past two years with a creativity conference in Oklahoma, now called the State of Creativity Forum. Even the governor, Mary Fallin, was there to support the notion that creativity and innovation is how Oklahoma moves forward. It’s all taking place November 13th in 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. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The state flag of Oklahoma combines symbolism from the Native American Osage and Choctaw peoples, prominent in the area. Nashville, Tennessee.

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If You Can’t Explain What You Do In A Paragraph, You’ve Got A Problem

Feld Thoughts

I was in Oklahoma City earlier this week with the entrepreneurs at the Blueprint for Business accelerator (it’s a member of the Global Accelerator Network ).

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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. As with the woman in my network, I thought offering her lunch was the reciprocity, but the problem is, I decided that.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

With the sting of losses so fresh, much of the angel activity dried up in the early 2000s, but it restarted with the launch of Central Texas Angel Network in 2006 and Capital Factory opening its doors in 2009. Local funding networks have a direct impact on the amount of total funding that goes into a region.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Do you tax a business traveler from Texas who orders TurboTax on his WiFi at Starbucks in Cherry Creek or a tourist from Oklahoma who does so from his SmartPhone while sitting on the chairlift at Vail? How can you tax those things, and would it even be worth it to try? Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5,