How Startups Can Use Metrics To Drive Success
The Business Insider
Commitment & urgency are key drivers of success in startup businesses. You already know it from your personal lives. The surest way to run a marathon is to tell everybody you're going to do it (transparency). Even better is to tell them which race ...

China Buries Obama's 'Sputnik' Goal for Clean-Energy Use
BusinessWeek
... Energy Finance, which begins its annual conference today in New York. “What China's doing is really smart,” said Jon Anda, vice chairman of UBS AG's securities unit in Stamford, Connecticut, who runs the Swiss bank's environmental markets business. ...
Chinese Banks' Illusory EarningsForbes (blog)

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Chase To Add 100 Bank Branches in California in 2011
LoanSafe
The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase ...

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SBA 504 loan
Evansville Courier & Press
The Small Business Administration continues to offer the 504 loan as a tremendous program to aid small- and medium-sized businesses in long-term, owner-occupied real estate and capital equipment financing. The partners in an SBA 504 loan transaction ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Bank of Ireland Will Sell $4.3 Billion Portion of Project-Finance Business
Bloomberg
(Source: Bloomberg) Bank of Ireland Plc, the country's largest bank, hired Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) to sell an almost 3 billion-euro ($4.3 billion) portion of its project finance business. The size will comprise mostly UK infrastructure loans and exclude ...
Deutsche Bank to oversee BoI loan saleIrish Times

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Business Building: How SCORE helps local entrepreneurs
Le Mars Daily Sentinel
He also became involved because he wanted to help new entrepreneurs by passing on some of the expertise he's gained over the years. "It's rewarding to see the people that you've counseled really, really making a success," he said. ...

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Spyker, Saab Defend Financial Position
Wall Street Journal
Saab Automobile CEO Jan-Ake Jonsson Monday said that while the company had experienced problems last week, it was still close to the financial expectations set out in its business plan. Jonsson, who has said he will retire in May after six years as CEO ...
Saab not close to collapse, says ownerCFO World UK
Despite The Deadpools, Saab Says It's Weathering StormThe Car Connection (blog)

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Monarch Bank Commercial Real Estate Finance Group Collaborates with Walker ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The Capital Markets group specializes in financing commercial real estate for owners and investors across the United States. Capital for this financing comes from large institutions such as life insurance companies, commercial banks, CMBS lenders, ...

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The Pros and Cons of Joining a Start-up Incubator
The Next Web
Typically a start-up incubator is run by very seasoned, successful and wealthy entrepreneurs. Start-up incubators usually – but not always – have cycles during which they announce funding is available for new companies with an application procedure ...

Chase To Add 100 Bank Branches in California in 2011
Business Wire (press release)
The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase ...
Chase plans new branches in San Joaquin ValleyFresno Business Journal

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Small Business Loans Tough to Come By, Says Timothy Geithner
Online Journal
Small business loans and financing options are becoming more difficult to come by. US Treasury Department Secretary Timothy Geithner said last month that despite improvements financial challenges will remain for smaller businesses. ...

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Small Business Loans Guaranteed By The SBA–Online Tools May Help Businesses ...
Red, White, and Blue Press
The small business loans that are offered and guaranteed by the SBA have been a valuable asset for many companies who may have had trouble finding financing for small business, and there are recent reports that indicate a new online ...
SBA 504 loanEvansville Courier & Press

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PPL acquires power distribution business in UK
Energy Business Review
To complete the transaction, PPL used acquisition financing under a syndicated bridge facility arranged by Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. The permanent financing plan includes a combination of common stock, equity units and debt. ...
PPL Completes UK AcquisitionZacks.com

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CIC Closes Follow-on Financing Round
PR Newswire (press release)
... operate without infringing upon the proprietary rights of others or prevent others from infringing on the proprietary rights of the Company; and (4) general economic and business conditions and the availability of sufficient financing.

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Small Business Matters
San Diego Union Tribune
Financing Options: The Vista Chamber along with MiraCosta's Small Business Development Center and the City of Vista present “Financing Options for Businesses” 11:30 am to 1:30 pm April 5 at Vista City Hall, 200 Civic Center Drive in the Community Room. ...

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USA Today
Sbarro, Windstar, Blockbuster, Vitro, Madoff: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
Purchased from Carnival Corp. in April 2007, the business had been in financial distress almost from the outset, as described in a court filing. The case is In re Ambassadors International Inc., 11-11002, US Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware ...
Sbarro Reaches Agreement on Pre-Negotiated Reorganization Plan with ...SunHerald.com
Sbarro Files for Prepackaged Chapter 11GlobeSt.com

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Raising chutzpah
Financial Post
Israeli Professor Peretz Lavie says one of the secrets to success in innovation is to not give up on the young. Jameson Berkow, Financial Post · Apr. 4, 2011 | Last Updated: Apr. 4, 2011 11:10 AM ET Professor Peretz Lavie is a serial entrepreneur and ...

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We can't all be startup winners
National Post (registration)
While many aspiring entrepreneurs start off harbouring fantasies of becoming the next Biz Stone, Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs, the reality is that for every successful startup that evolves into a sustainable business, 10 others will be forced back to ...

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Science Business
UK returns to the clean energy slow lane
Science Business
Investors are therefore more confident that if they finance a company to reach a particular stage of development, new investors will come in. “The big risk we face in under-developed markets is the financing risk, that is, [will] the business be able ...

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Epicor ® Agrees to Be Acquired by Apax Partners for $12.50 per Share
Marketwire (press release)
These Funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. Apax Partners Funds invest in companies across its global sectors of Tech & Telecom, Retail & Consumer, Media, Healthcare and Financial & Business Services. ...

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