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Rules targeting financial criminals will require new filings for startups and small businesses

GeekWire

Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Startup and small business owners take note: if your company has 20 or fewer full-time employees and gross annual sales of less than $5 million, there’s a new federal filing requirement that you need to know about. Insignia of the U.S.

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Howard Schultz funding online learning program for small businesses using CreativeLive platform

GeekWire

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is launching a free online learning program designed to help small businesses gain the necessary skills to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The causes are many: the need for learning and community, the lack of capital and social networks, the systemic failures that lead many to not even try.

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Lisa Brown, Washington state Dept. of Commerce director, will step down after 4 years 

GeekWire

He noted that she helped steer the state through the COVID-19 pandemic, administering funding for local governments, tribes, small businesses and nonprofits, youth development groups, people seeking housing and rent assistance, and others. Jay Inslee, who appointed Brown in Feb. “Our state is better for her leadership.”

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Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now

The Verge

There are a range of organizations that are providing activists with bail bonds and legal help, or that are helping small businesses and other community resources that have been adversely affected. National Bail Fund Network. You can also donate directly to the Network. What follows is only a limited list.

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

CTOvision

Clifton), CyberTrack: Automated Attack Attribution across Large-Scale Networks in Real Time , Dr. Xinyuan Wang, $50,000, Cybersecurity. Since 1985, CIT, a nonprofit corporation, has been a driver of innovation and entrepreneurship. CyberRock Inc. About the Center for Innovative Technology, www.cit.org.

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To fight the pandemic, a Brooklyn restaurant turned to tacos

The Verge

We’re a very small business, and unfortunately small businesses had very little help.”. “It Support networks among the Mexican and Latin American immigrant community, like the one created by Jalapeño King and Mixteca, could help counteract the void left by the government. We are still surviving.

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Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

Vox

Amazon has always presented its Marketplace, where outside businesses sell products through Amazon’s platform, as one of its biggest success stories: mutually beneficial to Amazon, sellers, and customers alike. It’s exploiting its monopoly power over these small businesses to pocket a huge and growing cut of their revenue.”.

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