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4311_3cba5a28aa_small June 15, 2012 by Paige Yowell

Washington, D.C. Startup Act 2.0, a bill introduced last month by a group of U.S. Senators that included Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, aims to make success come easier to entrepreneurs, allow businesses to recruit bright minds from all over the world and retain foreign college graduates who want to start businesses in the U.S. The original Startup Act, introduced in December of 2011, didn't garner enough votes to pass due to concerns about loosening immigration laws. The second version of the bill is cosponsored by a group of several Republican and Democratic senators. Here are a few of the provisions of the bill designed … read more

August 11, 2009 by Jeff Slobotski

Omaha From our friends at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce comes a new study result highlighting a few states in the Silicon Prairie... The study, “Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States for 2009: Rebuilding American’s Economic ... read more

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