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- Small Business Focus: Top Tips to Prepare Your Business for the Holidays 2019
Posted on 10/30/19 by Tara Palacios
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- Is your business ready for the holiday season? Your friends at BizLaunch have compiled four key tips to help help your business be successful when things get most distracting.
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- Arlington, Marine Corps Marathon Celebrate 50 Years of Arlington Fitness
Posted on 10/28/19 by Cara O'Donnell
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- Fitness lovers LOVE Arlington – and to celebrate, Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) and Arlington County officials unveiled a temporary Virginia “LOVE” sign to celebrate “50 Years of Love” and fitness in Arlington County.
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- BizLaunch: Creating a Prepared Business Community
Posted on 10/25/19 by Alex Held
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- Understanding that 90% of small businesses will fail within a year of a disaster unless they are able to resume operations within five days, the BizLaunch team hosted a Brunch & Business on How to Navigate Disastrous Moments in Business. If you missed the event, don't miss out on the key takeaways and resources covered in this blog post.
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- Arlington, Alexandria Support Principles for Inclusive Growth
Posted on 10/09/19 by Cara O'Donnell
- Nearly a year after the joint effort from Arlington and Alexandria that led to the winning Amazon bid for HQ2, the neighboring communities are showing no signs of slowing their collaborative efforts.
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- Small Biz Focus: How to Navigate Disastrous Moments in Business
Posted on 10/09/19 by Tara Palacios
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- Entrepreneurs are busy trying to manage and grow their business — not trying to figure out what to do when and if something bad happens. That's why the next Brunch & Business will focus on teaching entrepreneurs how to minimize the impact of a disaster by developing a proactive plan.
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- Nominate Your Small Business for Amazon's New Small Business Awards
Posted on 09/24/19 by Alex Held
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- Amazon recently announced that they are accepting nominations for their new small business awards. These awards, which were designed to celebrate inspiring and unique American small businesses selling in Amazon’s stores, will be recognizing small businesses in three categories: Small Business of the Year, Woman – Owned Small Business of the Year and Small Business Owner Under 30 of the Year.
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- Return on Creativity: Art is Good for Business
Posted on 09/23/19 by Susan Soroko
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- Differentiating your business may not be a matter of research and development. Turns out it's more art than science.
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- Ten Northern Virginia jurisdictions band together to form Northern VA Economic Development Alliance
Posted on 09/19/19 by Cara O'Donnell
- In a move to formalize the regional partnerships and collaborations throughout Northern Virginia’s economic development organizations, a total of 10 jurisdictions from Northern Virginia, including Arlington, are now banding together to form the Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance.
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- Listen: AED Interim Director Alex Iams on Arlington's business community
Posted on 09/18/19 by Cara O'Donnell
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- AED Interim Director Alex Iams was the guest on September's Ballston Connect podcast, where he discussed the current economic development situation for Arlington, some trends in the industry and what he envisions for the community post-Amazon.
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- BbG Fitness and Total Wellness Challenge
Posted on 08/28/19 by Guest Author
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- In this month’s
BizLaunch Featured Business Series,
we hear from Ginny Wright, an Arlington-based small business owner. Ginny has worked closely with BizLaunch and SCORE for over 15 years.
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- 34 Arlington Companies Named to the Inc 5000
Posted on 08/15/19 by Sarah Van Velsor
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- Inc. magazine named 34 Arlington companies to its annual list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing companies., the Inc. 5000, while five were part of the exclusive Inc. 500.
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- Biz Talk: Acquisitions in Arlington's Cybersecurity Space
Posted on 08/14/19 by Sindy Yeh
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- In the past few months, we’ve noticed a trend among Arlington’s security technology companies. Several innovative, fast-growing Arlington companies in the cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and data analytics fields are being acquired by larger companies.
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- Return on Creativity: Return on the Future
Posted on 08/13/19 by Susan Soroko
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- What will the future consumer experience? Let’s see how you feel.
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- Dark Star Park Celebrates 35th Anniversary
Posted on 08/02/19 by Cara O'Donnell
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- It’s been 35 years since Dark Star Park in Rosslyn became one of the first major examples of integrated public art in the nation and effectively began Arlington’s public art program, and this year, Arlington Public Art celebrated the anniversary in style.
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- A Look Back: The Last Five Years of Arlington Economic Development
Posted on 07/24/19 by Christina Winn
- Five years ago, the Arlington Economic Development Business Investment team set out to reduce Arlington County’s vacancy rate and diversify the economy.
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- Arlington's Commercial Vacancy Rate Drops
Posted on 07/18/19 by Cara O'Donnell
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- It's been a little more than four years since Arlington's commercial vacancy rate hit its historic high of 21%, and now, AED's efforts to promote and provide resources for businesses looking to move or expand operations in Arlington are paying off.
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- Small Business Focus: Arlington's Grant Opportunities for Area Nonprofits
Posted on 07/17/19 by Tara Palacios
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- Arlington County works with several nonprofit organizations through our Community Development Fund each year to ensure a maximum reach for nonprofit providers is varied and reflects the needs of our community. Register now to attend BizLaunch Nonprofit NOFA Information Session FY2021 on July 23 at Arlington Economic Development to learn how to apply.
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- Volunteers Needed for Emergency Exercise July 19
Posted on 07/12/19 by Arlington County
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- Help Arlington County be prepared for a public health emergency! The County is seeking volunteers to participate in Capital Fortitude, a full-scale emergency exercise designed to evaluate the National Capital Region’s ability to dispense medication quickly in response to an anthrax attack.
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- Arlington, Amazon deal help Virginia claim Top State for Business, 2019
Posted on 07/10/19 by AED Director Victor Hoskins
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- Virginia has been announced as CNBC’s choice for “Top State for Business” in 2019. It’s the fourth time the Commonwealth has taken the top honors, which studies all 50 states based on 10 different categories of business competitiveness. And of course, Arlington’s nationally-watched deal for Amazon HQ2 was cited as a big reason for the win.
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- Small Business Focus: Seven Simple Tips to Network Like A Pro
Posted on 06/26/19 by Tara Palacios
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- Need more business? Summer is the perfect time to review your networking plan. In this blog, Tara provides seven simple tips to help you network like a pro for the remainder of the year.
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