The 10 Best Cities For Small Businesses
An A for overall friendliness to business, up from B+ in 2013. An A+ for licensing and an B+ for zoning.
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Music city earns an A for overall friendliness to business, up from a B in 2012, but earns just a C for ease of hiring.
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An A for overall friendliness to business, down from A+ in 2013. A+ for zoning and B+ for ease of hiring.
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Dallas' next door neighbor also rates an A+ for overall friendliness to business, up from its A grade in 2013. And while it scores an A+ in tax code, it only scores a D+ for ease of hiring.
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A+ for overall friendliness to business, up from an A in 2013. An A+ for tax code, but just a C for networking and training programs, which the survey finds is of significant importance to small business owners.
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Cardinal country rates an A+ for overall friendliness to business, another A+ for zoning, and a respectable B+ for training and networking programs.
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The Texas capital scores an A+ for overall friendliness to business in the Thumbtack survey. Also an A+ for employment, labor and hiring in general, though an A- for ease of hiring specifically.
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Texas continues its strong showing in the survey with Houston's A+ for overall friendliness to business. It also gets an A+ for zoning and an A- for training and networking programs.
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Despite a C for ease of hiring, Boise still rates an A+ for overall friendliness to business and an A+ for ease of starting a business.
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Colorado Springs apparently was once known as the “city of millionaires” because of the gold-mining riches some found there. At least that’s what the Internet says. The city could now be called Small Business Central, as it scores an A+ for overall friendliness to business along with 7 A-pluses and 3 A’s in Thumbtack’s survey categories.
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