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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Foundation was created in 1997 by tech pioneers, Jean and Steve Case.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. What is Fuel50?

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Health Care Reform

Tech Coast Venture Network

In later years (2014-2018) insurance becomes mandatory, middle and lower income people will get subsidies to pay for insurance and other changes will take place. Due to higher taxes and more regulations on business, economic growth will likely be somewhat lower than it would have otherwise been.

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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014.

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Health Care Reform - What It Can Mean for Small Business

Tech Coast Venture Network

But it has proven something of a challenge to understand exactly what its impact will be for individual businesses — especially in light of the fact that many of its provisions won't take effect until 2014 or later, and could even change between now and their effective dates. It depends on the size of the company.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

Due to Rapid City’s off-the-beaten-path location and small size — it’s tucked among the Great Plains, about 25 miles from Mount Rushmore, with a population of approximately 74,000 — the destination doesn’t typically enter the conversation for ICPC, which draws about 1,400 attendees. “The The last couple of years, it was in Warsaw, St.

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