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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

As the Tax Foundation notes, for example, some states have no traditional corporate income tax (like Texas, Nevada and Colorado), while Alaska collects a whopping $993 per capita. However, face-to-face meetings and negotiations are often critical to securing the financial backing startups need to grow. About the Author.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

Strategy Driven

With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. But the example of First RepublicBank reminds us that infusing government into any market-based transactions can change the outcome for better and for worse. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin.”

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. There are examples of universities forging ahead. But still sitting on the sidelines? They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry.

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

For example, in the Philadelphia area market there is a law firm that does TV ads, places billboards all over the region, and spends a few million dollars on Adwords a year. Frank at Sagapixel told me about a conversation he had with Eric Diaz, a prominent real estate attorney in Philadelphia. Yes – a few MILLION dollars.