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Pilot Raises $60 Million To Help SMBs Modernize Finances

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And, Pilot helps SMBs get tax credits they might have missed out on, according to the release, including a research and development payroll credit that can go up to $250,000. Our first job out of college was owning a business in Boston,” Pilot Co-Founder and CEO Waseem Daher said in the release.

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Forget Retirement Planning — Millennials Want Student Debt Help From Employers

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As a financial services firm, this was really concerning to us,” Hanson told The Boston Globe. “We For fresh-out-of-college millennials saddled with debt, it’s unwise to turn down financial assistance from any direction. In fact, companies might not even have to throw up big bucks to attract those millennial geniuses.

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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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That’s the only way the business can ultimately continue to create value for its customers, create jobs for people, serve the ecosystem in which it operates and provide tax revenues. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. Now, getting back to where we started with Amazon.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

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Companies such as Betterment (disclosure, Anthemis is an investor & I am a customer) make investing in a diversified portfolio of ETFs easy and provide additional services such as automated rebalancing and tax optimisation. On the other end of the scale (Alpha), access to alternative assets has become easier with the JOBS act.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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The “traditional M&A” was often driven by a desire to boost EPS (earnings per share), with companies seeking to combine assets with a similar business, merging with a business in a lower-tax jurisdiction, or looking to gain desirable assets owned by other businesses. get the full REPORT.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Taxes and other measures put in place years earlier were even rolled back. I was traveling at the time, so that shopping experience worked really well for me.