Chinese Finance: A shadowy presence
GulfNews
... as companies bring home the proceeds of overseas business. "The magnitude of tightening is not as large as [the monetary] data suggest," they note. One big distortionary factor is that a lot of financial products do not show up as normal deposits. ...

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NYT: A group building a good-old-girls club
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But their meetings have led to a continuing dialogue about business, with members gaining access to capital and connections outside their established circles. Belizean Grove has connected the top women in technology to the top women in finance, ...

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A group that is building a good-old-girls club
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But their meetings have led to a continuing dialogue about business, with members gaining access to capital and connections outside their established circles. Belizean Grove has connected the top women in technology to the top women in finance, ...

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Top Entrepreneurs of the Last Century
Penn Olson
There are also several successful Asian entrepreneurs featured on Businessweek and Inc.. They are certainly worth a look too. One of the up and coming entrepreneurs, Leon Ho, founder of Stepcase who recently had his startup covered on Penn Olson was ...

China Buries Obama's 'Sputnik' Goal for Renewable-Energy Use
BusinessWeek
CDB, which has almost twice the assets of the World Bank, is matching US expertise with Chinese financing and manufacturing prowess to dominate a market both nations say is critical to their future. Chinese solar-panel makers such as LDK Solar Co. ...

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Women of Color in Tech: How Can We Encourage Them?
TechCrunch
Kimberly believes that the reason there aren't more black women in the tech world is that it doesn't offer them an equitable path to success—because of which most educated African Americans get into law or medicine. Her advice to entrepreneurs: go to ...

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Tamweel's $100 million pricetag disclosed in financial statements
The National
... of business at the Islamic mortgage giant following a two-year freeze. The transaction was completed on November 4, according to annual financial statements DIB released at the end of last week, with the bank grabbing up a 58.3 per cent stake. ...
Dubai Islamic Bank Paid $102 Million to Take Control of TamweelBusinessWeek

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Valley's own Drund project lets users organize their online life
Youngstown Vindicator
In late February, Drund premiered at the inaugural LAUNCH Conference in San Francisco alongside 100 other tech startups and entrepreneurs. Drund also will take the spotlight at TechCrunch, a conference and startup competition on May 24-26. ...

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Entrepreneurs form new companies after losing jobs
St. George Daily Spectrum
"It's a little harder to develop your business." Judd said he encourages entrepreneurs to spend time devising strong business plans before attempting to obtain loans. "We were able to get some private financing. It would have been extremely difficult ...

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Supporters ought to make business case for road plan
Livingston Daily
When we are financing two, wait, three wars? As the country struggles with a slow, jobless recovery? As budget cuts loom? When the national debt is something like $14.2 trillion? Rogers and bill co-sponsor US Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., make it sound as ...

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Banks step up small business lending
The Desert Sun
New government programs such as the Small Business Lending Fund, a $30 billion initiative, have been launched that are expected to help banks boost loans. Wells Fargo & Co. said it has extended $871 million in SBA 7(a) financing to small businesses ...
A business financing option if the bank says 'no'Snohomish County Business
Bottom Lines: Small Business Administration appoints new director for New JerseyPress of Atlantic City
SBA Commercial Refi Program Spreads A Wider NetMaui Now
Main Street Business Journal -El Paso Times
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MANY LOCALS LOOKING FOR A FRESH STARTUP
The Register-Guard
In general, 20 percent of the students in each of his incoming classes will be successful and generate wealth for themselves; 60 percent will survive, but in the end they may have been better off pursuing some other option; and 20 percent don't have a ...

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TARP exit not easy for small players
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Zitzner said he's "on the fence" about whether to apply to the Treasury for TARP financing under the Small Business Lending Fund, which took effect as part of Congress' Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. TARP banks now pay the Treasury a 5% dividend on ...

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Edmonton Champions Project connects techies with entrepreneurs
Edmonton Sun
Ken Bautista, co-chair of Startup Edmonton, said his non-profit and entrepreneur-led group will be kick starting a new project that will connect tech-minded mentors with newbie professionals in Edmonton's upstart creative business community. ...

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How Phaneesh Murthey, Nitish Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Sourav Ganguly became ...
Economic Times
For every entrepreneur who bounces back, there are many who either burned out or faded away. Failure cannot always be romanticised and transformed into heroic tales of turnarounds. But it does serve a purpose, of telling budding start-up artistes that ...

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Loan Guarantees Can Be A Great Incentive For Small Business Loans
Daily News Pulse
All businesses that are considered for financing under SBA's 7(a) loan program must meet SBA size standards, be for-profit, not already have the internal resources (business or personal) to provide the financing, and be able to demonstrate sufficient ...

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Small business success secrets
Anchorage Press
No matter how different your business is from theirs, or from any other successful startup, some business advice is universally beneficial for entrepreneurs: * Before opening up shop, be sure the community you're locating in has demand for your product ...

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New Efficiency Maine 4.99% Loans for Financing Home Energy Improvements
VillageSoup Belfast
By Evergreen Home Performance, LLC | Apr 02, 2011 An April 4th launch of Maine PACE 4.99% loans for financing home energy efficiency improvements was announced by Efficiency Maine PACE Loan program manager, Dana Fischer at last Wednesday night's ...

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Entrepreneur Corner: Succession planning and napkin entrepreneurs
VentureBeat
Today, though, it's just as easy – and a lot more effective – to build a Web prototype, says serial entrepreneur Steve Blank. 3 strategies for achieving web start-up success – Software companies used to be able to rely on shelfware to reap their ...

Small business success secrets
Big Bear Grizzly
No matter how different your business is from theirs, or from any other successful startup, some business advice is universally beneficial for entrepreneurs: * Before opening up shop, be sure the community you're locating in has demand for your product ...

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