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Cities with the Lowest (and Highest) Startup Costs - Headway Capital | Blog

The costs of running a business can really add up, but where you run your business can make a big difference too. SmartAsset did a study of 80 cities to determine which had the highest and lowest ...

AMERICA’S BEST CITIES FOR GLOBAL TRADE | Global Trade Magazine

Another year, another list of the Top U.S. Cities for Global Trade. If there’s one thing that strikes us about this list over the past couple of years is that the reach of the global economy has ...

What You Can Do When The Venture Capitalists Say No

Will the VCs say NO? VCs say no about 99 times more often than they say yes since VCs fund only about one of 100 business plans they get. It’s also important to note that VCs don’t read a ...

America's High-Tech STEM Crisis - by Arthur Herman

America is in a race for high-tech supremacy with China. The question is, whether we will have enough future engineers and scientists to secure our lead in that race; or whether, for the first time, ...

9 lessons female founders learned while trying to raise funding

“The most succinct way I can describe it is: I have noticed that men receive what I call a ‘presumption of competence’ that women don’t get.” That’s what one female founder told us in a ...

Exclusive Report: Hundreds of Female Founders Speak Out on Ambition, Politics, and #MeToo | Inc.com

Starting any fast-growing business is difficult. Starting one while female, as the flood of headlines about sexism and VC funding shortfalls illustrates, can seem nearly impossible. To fully ...

Tips From The Practicalities of an Entrepreneurial Life for Your Help

Entrepreneurs are made, not born. Entrepreneurship requires all-encompassing skills and abilities that other occupations do not even touch upon. Engineers draft plans for a new project, then pass ...

SpaceX Plans to Fly Humans Around the Moon in 2023 - Scientific American

A Japanese billionaire and a coterie of artists will visit the moon as early as 2023, becoming the first private citizens ever to fly beyond low Earth orbit, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced ...

Hidden entrepreneurs: What crowdfunding reveals about startups in metro America

Entrepreneurship—and the creative ingenuity often associated with it—is critical to regional economies. Yet, America’s startup rate has been in long-term decline, and pockets of business ...

Tour of Johnson and Johnson's startup incubator JLabs NYC - Business Insider

Johnson & Johnson Innovation's Manhattan outpost of its startup incubator, JLabs, is the new kid on the NYC-health-tech block. First opened in June, JLabs host startups looking for a space to ...

China vs the US: China has better public transport, food, e-commerce - Business Insider

I'm not sure what I expected before visiting China. Whenever I spoke to people who had visited the country before, the dominant reaction — whether the person was white, Chinese-American, or ...

Coffee, chocolate, and red wine in your diet could increase your lifespan - Business Insider

It's hard to keep up with what diets are supposedly good for you. Research has shown, time and again, that a plant-based diet is best for your body and brain. But studies that zero in on certain ...

The Top 150 Company Cultures in America

We all want to love where we work -- and want our employees to be as excited to be there as we are. But not every entrepreneur knows how to make their workplace enjoyable -- and investing in a ...

11 Ways To Find And Build Your Perfect Advisory Board

As a growing startup, it's wise to accept help and advice from others who have been in your shoes. One way to surround yourself with these experts is to create a formal advisory board for your ...

The Yin And Yang Of Entrepreneurship

Sometimes an accident and a shortcut can add up to a hit product. In 1952, Don Stookey, a chemist at the Corning Incorporated, was experimenting with a new glass formula. To test it, he put a ...

Yet another new patent bill seeks to bolster inventor protections

Adding to the many new patent bills introduced in the House of Representatives over the summer and covered in this space, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has put forward a measure of his own designed ...

Best Places to Live in America: MONEY Magazine 2018 Ranking | Money

As millennials age, it’s not a question of whether they will settle down. It’s a question of where. After all, the generation long chided as eternal renters is finally buying houses of its own. ...

7 Keys To Selecting A Startup Idea That Works For You - Startup Professionals Musings

A common request I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is for an assessment of their latest idea. I don’t even try to assess things at the idea level, since I can’t read minds. I can assess ...

How Can You Know If A Crowdfunding Page Is Legit? « WCCO | CBS Minnesota

Christiane Cordero reports on how GoFundMe displays a list of verified campaigns for natural disasters like Hurricane Florence (2:32). WCCO 4 News – Sept. 17, 2018 Image: ...

Surrendering to Rising Seas - Scientific American

MONIQUE COLEMAN’S BASEMENT was still wet with saltwater when the rallying began. Just days after Superstorm Sandy churned into the mid-Atlantic region, pushing a record-breaking surge into ...

Animated Map: 2,400 Years of European History

The history of Europe is breathtakingly complex. While there are rare exceptions like Andorra and Portugal, which have had remarkably static borders for hundreds of years, jurisdiction over portions ...

How to Be Invisible Online -- Without Going Off the Grid (Infographic)

Companies and organizations are getting their hands on our data and using it for a number of reasons we don’t even know about. Luckily, there are a number of things you can do to minimize your ...

Rockwool: Three Truths And A Lie About The Economic Development Game

When the Danish insulation company Rockwool announced its plan to construct a factory that will continually spew tons of toxic emissions across the lush, historic Shenandoah Valley, the residents of ...

Here’s What a One-Bedroom Apartment Costs in 50 Major Cities | Money

It typically costs less to own a home than to rent one in most cities. So if homeownership is out of reach for you — or just doesn’t appeal to you — you can still find affordable ...

19 Incredibly cool crowdfunding projects we’ve seen so far in 2018

Hundreds and hundreds of crowdfunding programs come across our desk every year and hundreds fail. But, many are successful. Whether it’s due to grit and great marketing or truly remarkable ...

Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint in Meetings. His Replacement Is Brilliant | Inc.com

In his 2018 annual letter, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos repeated his rule that PowerPoint is banned in executive meetings. What Bezos replaced it with provides even more valuable insight for ...

Big Bank Invites Cities to Compete for $500 Million in Community Development Funds – Next City

Cities and banks can mostly agree on at least one point: there should be more dollars spent on or invested in community development. But how those dollars find their way to those purposes? That’s ...

Hurricane Florence: Floating homes to withstand Category 4 hurricanes

As Hurricane Florence makes it way across the Carolinas, millions of coastal residents have reason to be concerned about the structural integrity of their homes. Already, nearly 300,000 homes and ...

The 50 best suburbs in America, ranked - Business Insider

In a series titled "The Death of Suburbia," Business Insider previously explored the declining state of American suburbs. Reporters found millennials are doing everything they can to avoid suburban ...

This Map Shows the States Where Millennials Can Afford Homes | Money

Still think millennials can’t buy homes? You might just be looking in the wrong places. After all, those under the age of 38 now make up the largest share of all home buyers, according to the ...

How to Tell If You’re Delegating Too Much — and What to Do About It

Everyone knows leaders should delegate to ensure that they are working on the right projects and deliverables. But if you find yourself frequently miscommunicating with your team on deliverables, ...

Venture Capital Investment Market Share, Growth by Top Company, Geographical Region, Application, Driver, Trends and Forecast from 2018-2023 – Our Market Research

Venture Capital Investment Market report is to help the user understand the market in terms of its classification, segmentation, market potential, influential trends, and the challenges that the ...

New academy to send Singapore students overseas for internships at start-ups, Singapore News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

SINGAPORE - To groom future innovators with a global view, a new academy has been set up to send Singapore students abroad for internships at start-ups or companies that undertake entrepreneurship ...