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Preventing Stupid: 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask

YoungUpstarts

In western Oklahoma there are many companies depending on oil production for their livelihood. Failure due to ignorance regarding your business can strike either the management side or the operations side of a business. Catastrophes are the natural and man-made disasters that originate outside your business and hinder your goals.

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

Up and Running

With low operation costs and a large banking sector, Sioux Falls is receiving national attention as a great place to start a business. 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. SCORE Oklahoma City.

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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

YoungUpstarts

The coming-together of these two musical virtuosos resulted in a 16-year partnership that produced instant classics like Oklahoma! Name your favorite musical; odds are these guys wrote it. State Fair , South Pacific , The King and I , and The Sound of Music. It’s also the only team that doesn’t officially exist.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based Massachusetts.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

When we set-up our next business our first decision was to operate with a remote workforce. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Sokolovsky also operated an on-demand food delivery startup based in Berkeley, before entering eCommerce logistics.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

at Oklahoma State University and his MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In his career, Stephen has started, operated, and successfully sold two companies and also spent nine years at Austin Ventures, where he was a General Partner. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing.