The Guardian
Graduate careers: The dangers of becoming an entrepreneur
The Guardian
"I wasn't realistic enough about the startup costs and I tried expanding too soon," he says. Going solo is increasingly attractive to graduates as competition for decent jobs intensifies. Britain, says David Cameron, is entering the age of the ...

Pros and Cons Regarding Fifth Street's New Debt
Seeking Alpha
On April 7, 2011, mid-range Business Development Company (or "BDC") Fifth Street Finance (FSC) announced the private placement of $150mn of Convertible Senior Notes. The coupon is 5.375%, and the maturity is five years out in 2016. ...

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$5M new cap for Pathway Lending Energy Efficiency Loans
Business Clarksville
The program is available to any business seeking to reduce energy consumption of its Tennessee facilities through efficiency-improving projects. To be eligible for a loan, a business must have a complete third-party energy audit, assessment or vendor ...

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Treasuries Extend Third Weekly Decline as Inflation Bets Rise
BusinessWeek
Six- and three-month yields have fallen this week as the Treasury cut to $5 billion from $200 billion the amount of outstanding Supplementary Financing Program bills it sells on behalf of the Fed in a program set up in 2008 to support the financial ...

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US HOT STOCKS: Viasystems, QuikLogic Active In Late Trading
Wall Street Journal
... -8.34%) and First Cash Financial Services (FCFS, $36.49, -$1.73, -4.53%) slumped Friday after a state bill that would limit the companies' short-term lending ability passed through committee. The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce ...

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Careers on the side
Chicago Tribune
He categorizes the side-gig entrepreneur differently, calling it a "fractional entrepreneurship" model. "These are often people who are highly successful in their own right, with normal jobs who, on the side, are entrepreneurs," says Kedrosky, ...

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New York Times (blog)
Bits: TechStars Nurtures Start-Ups With Mentors
New York Times (blog)
The start-ups presenting at the event have all been involved in a 13-week program hosted by TechStars, a technology start-up incubator that pulls in successful technologists to help mentor new companies. Twice a year, TechStars, which originally began ...

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Commercial Vehicle Group Announces Financing Transactions
PR Newswire (press release)
NEW ALBANY, Ohio, April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVGI) (the "Company") announced today a series of financing transactions designed to refinance substantially all of its existing indebtedness. ...
CDW Corporation Announces Expiration of Withdrawal Rights Pursuant to the ...EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

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Entrepreneur (blog)
The Hidden Small-Business Credit Crisis: Fear of Applying
Entrepreneur (blog)
The survey showed about half the owners went into personal debt in 2009 to keep their business afloat. "These firms clearly continue to feel the effects of the financial crisis in terms of lost sales and inability to obtain needed funding," Kauffman ...

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Bad Credit? Here Is How To Find Lenders You Can Trust
Breaking Story (blog)
... finance-related websites, forums and blogs. Once you have obtain a list of companies which offer low interest bad credit personal loans, don't forget to have a look at their companies via Better Business Bureau directory stated above earlier. 4. ...

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SBA extends refinancing option
Westfair Online
The Small Business Administration is offering a temporary refinancing program for commercial real estate mortgages that mature beginning in 2013, and for which owners have had difficulty getting financing through regular channels like banks. ...
SBA program pops balloon loansSacramento Business Journal

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Larry Page Just Took A Page From Jeff Bezos With His Re-Org (GOOG, AMZN)
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a smart move: Page's big goal is to return Google to its startup roots, and this is like organizing the company as many startups within a startup. It's how Apple is run, for example. But there's another big goal to the re-org, which owes more to ...

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Treasury's Pension Raids in Past Debt Ceiling Fights
Fox Business
“Specifically, Treasury used a program that was originally established as an alternative method for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to increase its assistance to the financial sector during the financial downturn, the Supplementary Financing Program (SFP), ...

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Christian Science Monitor
Treasury tries new approach to small business lending
Sun-Sentinel
A new US Treasury fund is being offered to push community banks towards more small business lending. The $30 billion fund, part of the Small Business Jobs Act, is open to banks with assets of less than $10 billion. The design provides a key incentive ...
Commercial lending topic of meetingMidland Daily News
10 questions to find the right bank for your businessReuters Blogs (blog)
UMB Bank credit manager: Shutdown shouldn't stop small business loan applicationsBizjournals.com
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Ally Financial to Commence Registered Exchange Offer
PR Newswire (press release)
The company offers a full suite of automotive financing products and services in key markets around the world. Ally's other business units include mortgage operations and commercial finance, and the company's subsidiary, Ally Bank, offers retail ...

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SecondAct
And on the Side, I'm an Entrepreneur
SecondAct
These platforms, which can create a sort of virtual word-of-mouth, also double as advertising, helping to decrease your startup costs. Let yourself dream. We can't all become the next Facebook or Groupon, but let those success stories motivate you. ...

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Five Techniques To Rebound from Startup Failure
The Business Insider
If your first startup fails, you are about average. Most entrepreneurs fail on at least one attempt. Investors agree that an entrepreneur who has never failed probably hasn't pushed the limits. What investors look for is not that you never fail, ...

Report Card Exposes Largest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
SustainableBusiness.com
"Mountaintop removal coal mining is bad for health and bad for business. From a regulatory and financial perspective this disastrous mining practice is too big of a risk for banks, and certainly too big of a risk to America's families," said Amanda ...

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Small Business Loans From Peer-To-Peer Networks–Alternative Borrowing Options ...
Red, White, and Blue Press
The small business loans are still being sought out by many companies looking for sources of financing to either establish their operations or grow their current company, but there are still some issues that these borrowers face when it ...

Get Your Ticket Now for Michigan 2031 on April 14 and Get a Free Copy of Josh ...
Xconomy
Here at Xconomy, we know something about the great investor-entrepreneur relationships that are often behind the best companies: not only are we a startup ourselves, we write about the venture capital and startup scene every day—often chronicling the ...