Alternative financing can offset cashflow problems
TechJournal South
Accounts Receivable (A/R) Financing: A/R financing is more similar to a bank loan than factoring is. Here, a business submits all of its invoices to the commercial finance company, which establishes a borrowing base against which the company can borrow ...

Blockbuster, Lehman, Vitro, Accredited Home: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
The senior secured lenders are Ableco Finance LLC, Wells Fargo Capital Finance Inc., and Ally Commercial Finance LLC. The case is CB Holding Corp., 10-13683, US Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington). The trustee for Bernard L. Madoff ...

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TechSparks, India's biggest product tech startup event, joins hands with ...
PRLog.Org (press release)
PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 08, 2011 – After a wildly successful run in 2010, TechSparks, the product tech startup showcase event conducted by online portal YourStory, is back again this year, in a much bigger format. TechSparks is a multi-city series ...

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Dubai eyes $800M financing through toll deal
BusinessWeek
The Commercial Bank of Dubai, Citibank, Dubai Islamic Bank and Emirates NBD are leading the financing effort. Dubai has been overhauling its finances and restructuring billions of dollars in debt after a credit crisis that began over a year and a half ...
Dubai to sell future Salik receipts to finance projectsThe National
Dubai unveils $800m plan to monetize SalikArabianBusiness.com

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Start-up board meetings vs. bored meetings
Fortune (blog)
Yet a well-functioning, well-managed board of directors is critical to a start-up's success. One of the best books on the topic is the somewhat obscure Board Room Excellence by a wise old start-up lawyer I worked with many years ago, Paul Brountas. ...

China Is Headed For A Financial Crisis Unless It Makes Four Critical Reforms
The Business Insider
Typically the key objectives in this kind of banking system are rapid elite-directed growth and overall financial stability. Since banks are in the business of taking risk, and since rapid credit expansion is inherently risky, the only way to guarantee ...

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Young Entrepreneurs Put College on Hold
Harvard Crimson
“Basically a lot of Harvard students think that the key to success is not making any mistakes. The startup mentality is making as many mistakes as quickly as you can until you find the right answer,” Novendstern explains. For Brockman, dropping out ...

Missouri governor talks small business in Springfield
News-Leader.com
The rest -- $16.9 million -- will go to the Missouri IDEA Seed and Venture Capital Funds for business involved in science and technology. Eligible businesses must seek funds for one of four stages of growth: pre-seed capital stage financing, ...

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Gap Inc obtains new bank financing
Fibre2fashion.com
As part of the same financing agreement, the Company also entered into a $400 million five-year term loan. Since 2002, Gap Inc. has demonstrated its ability to generate consistent and strong operating cash flow, through various business cycles and even ...

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Roanoke Times
Roanoke County eyeglass innovator PixelOptics gets $45 million investment
Roanoke Times
PixelOptics, a homegrown technology company that made a national splash this winter with its new emPower automatically adjusting electronic eyeglasses, announced a $45 million infusion of financing Thursday. The investment will mean faster growth for ...
Safeguard Scientifics Leads $45 Million Financing for PixelOpticsBusiness Wire (press release)
Safeguard Scientifics leads $45 million financing for PixelOpticsOptoIQ
PixelOptics Closes $45 Million FinancingPR Newswire (press release)

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Riverside County wants foreign trade finance officer
Press-Enterprise
Riverside County officials want their own foreign trade financing officer and have sought federal support, as well as offered free office space, to get one. There are 18 business development officers representing the Export-Import ...

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H&R Block sees 4Q charge; March filing growth ebbs
CBS News
Block lost its financing for the loans in late December, too close to tax season to find another bank to back them. Analysts, on average, are expecting Block to report profit of $2.14 per share, on revenue of $2.3 billion, according to data provided by ...

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Cash is King: 8 tips for Optimizing your Startup Financing Strategy
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
His work as a value added investor is best known for helping JBoss take its Open Source business to a successful exit with its sale to Red Hat, and for helping AppIQ, Tabblo and Diligent Technologies, which have all had successful exits, ...

BusinessWeek
Japan's Debate: How to Fund the Cleanup
BusinessWeek
Takahashi boosted spending by 34 percent in the 1932 fiscal year, financing it by doubling bond issuance, according to a report by the Japan Center for Economic Research. While the effort helped end deflation, much of the outlays were used for the ...

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H&R Block Sees 4Q Charge; March Filing Growth Ebbs
ABC News
Block lost its financing for the loans in late December, too close to tax season to find another bank to back them. Analysts, on average, are expecting Block to report profit of $2.14 per share, on revenue of $2.3 billion, according to data provided by ...

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Experts unfold growth strategies for business start-ups
Vanguard
... School of Entrepreneurship disclosed that anyone who wants to start up a business must be able to analyse and estimate the cost of going into the business in order to be a successful entrepreneur in life The industrialists — Mr. Kehinde Abiola, ...

Bridge Bank Extends $7 Million in Financing to Fluidigm Corporation
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
"Bridge Bank's financing provides Fluidigm with greater flexibility to manage its working capital," said Vikram Jog, Chief Financial Officer of Fluidigm. "Bridge Bank invested time and effort to understand our business and industry and then structured ...

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Small Businesses See Benefits Of Exporting
Small Business News from Gaebler.com
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SBA, Inc. Magazine and AT&T Join Forces to Promote Exporting by U.S. Small ...Business Wire (press release)

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Bridge Bank Extends $7 Million in Financing to Fluidigm Corporation
Marketwire (press release)
"Bridge Bank's financing provides Fluidigm with greater flexibility to manage its working capital," said Vikram Jog, Chief Financial Officer of Fluidigm. "Bridge Bank invested time and effort to understand our business and industry and then structured ...

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US Consumer Credit Rises in February on Student Loans
BusinessWeek
Discover Financial Services, benefiting from a rebound in its card-lending business, reported a record fiscal first- quarter profit and raised its dividend last month. Its write- offs for loans deemed uncollectible fell to 5.8 percent in February from ...

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