Alliance Data Systems Gets $1.59 Billion in Loans to Repay Debt
BusinessWeek
The financing package, which matures May 2016, includes a $792.5 million term loan and a $792.5 million revolving line of credit, the Dallas-based company said today in a statement distributed by PR Newswire. The interest rate on the term loan is 2.25 ...

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Tech Wildcatters Welcomes Sponsor Silicon Valley Bank
PR Newswire (press release)
DALLAS, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Wildcatters, a mentor-driven accelerator program for startup technology entrepreneurs, added Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) as a sponsor to help selected start-up companies build their business and obtain seed or ...
Tech Wildcatters Welcomes Sponsor Silicon Valley BankSacramento Bee

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GrowLab set to accelerate Vancouver startups
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
GrowLab's Executive Director is Michael Tippett, a successful entrepreneur with nearly two decades of startup experience. GrowLab is a Vancouver-based start up accelerator. It provides early stage technology companies with seed funding, office space ...
Vancouver Gets a Different Kind of Grow LabGigaOm
GrowLab Accelerator for Startups with seed and stage A fundingGoMo News
Startup Boot Camp, GrowLab, LaunchedTechFinance
Vancouver Sun -National Post (registration) -Blackberry Cool
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City Tries to Ignite Innovation with Startup Contest
BusinessNewsDaily
Like many other struggling cities across the country, they've grubstaked their own incubator for early-stage entrepreneurs, and they're on the hunt for a startup they hope will pull off the next big thing in high technology. To make help make it happen ...

Stratus Media Group Closes $14.1 Million Financing
Gamut News
This financing will allow us to implement business plans for multiple verticals, produce live entertainment events, and initiate the Stratus Rewards Visa White Card program.” To facilitate domestic and international strategic growth, ...

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Accelerator's New Cancer Startup, 23andMe Hanging at the ISB, How to Make ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
-How can a biotech entrepreneur make money with no hope of going public, and fat chance of getting acquired by a Big Pharma company? This week's BioBeat focused on how Jim Posada of Seattle-based Resolve Therapeutics has structured his company so it ...

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SME Finance: Supporting the economy and business community responsibly
Malta Business Weekly
Nevertheless, SMEs reliance on bank finance is very high especially in Malta given that alternative options are very limited with venture capital practically non-existent; very limited presence of business angels while access to the capital markets are ...

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Investors build entrepreneurial ecosystem
Vancouver Sun
At the end of the four-month program, the emerging entrepreneurs have a chance to take in another $150000 by making a successful pitch. The program is accepting applications "globally" and plans to select five startup companies for a program beginning ...

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Fed Gave Banks Crisis Gains on $80 Billion Secretive Loans as Low as 0.01%
Bloomberg
Using repos to provide emergency cash, a step the Fed announced on March 7, 2008, was a departure from that process, said John H. Cochrane, a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. “The Fed was slamming the pedal to ...

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Johnson named Women in Business champion
Grand Island Independent
From access to capital, to training to financing, that has always been a struggle for women," she said. Presenting Johnson the award was Patricia Brown-Dixon, regional administrator for the US Small Business Administration Kansas City Regional Office. ...

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Technorati
Investment Firms Allowed to Use Social Media Under SEC/FINRA Rules
Technorati
Joseph Price, Senior Vice President of Advertising Regulation/Corporate Financing at FINRA (Financial Industry Financial Authority) discussed the issues with investment firms and Social Media with me earlier today. Price is one of the authors of ...

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The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Panelists: There is talent in West Michigan, but finding start-up money is ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
The panel brought together four local entrepreneurs having below-the-radar success with relatively new ventures. Panelists included: The wide-ranging discussion on funding, ideas, resources, challenges and navigating the local business ecosystem was ...

Lower rates, hedging costs make $ loans a hit
Times of India
Further, As Indian businesses become more and more global, raising financing from the USD markets for their offshore needs makes more business sense instead of raising INR funding locally and then remitting offshore" said Nayar. ...

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Interview: Why and how Google bought Sparkbuy
The Seattle Times (blog)
Networking really is worthwhile for startup entrepreneurs, or at least the ones who want to sell their companies to Google. Dan Shapiro said friendships and chance encounters helped him start comparison shopping site Sparkbuy last year and sell it to ...

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Citybizlist (press release)
Proposed downtown arena gets private financing commitment
Baltimore Sun
News of Hackerman's offer was made public Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Greater Baltimore Committee, a private business group that has been exploring ways to build an arena that would be combined with an expanded convention center to bolster ...
GBC Unveils $900M Plan for New Arena, Hotel, Convention center in BaltimoreCitybizlist Real Estate

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Bank Of America Plans Small Business Banking Expansion
Small Business News from Gaebler.com
Our small business news site is packed with breaking news for people who love entrepreneurship. Find helpful entrepreneur resources about small business management, financing, marketing & technology.

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Banks falling short of small business lending target
Bytestart
It is not only lending targets that the major banks have agreed to under Project Merlin. Their commitments extend to reducing bonus payments and to deliver on the recommendations of the UK Business Finance Taskforce which includes the following;

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Forbes (blog)
Life Inc.: Getting paid to skip college
msnbc.com
Now, an entrepreneur has launched a fellowship that aims to test that theory by paying people not to go to school. The co-founder of online pocketbook PayPal, Peter Thiel, on Wednesday announced the winners of a fellowship that will pay nearly two ...
Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100000 Not to Attend CollegeChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
For three Canadian whiz kids, $100000 and a mandate: Change the worldGlobe and Mail
Peter Thiel's '20 Under 20′: Who we're putting our money onDigitaltrends.com
SYS-CON Media (press release)
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Maryland gets $23 million in federal aid for small businesses
Baltimore Sun
An additional $10.5 million will benefit the Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority and $4.5 million will go to the Maryland Small Business Financing Authority. Both are state-managed loan guarantee programs. The remaining $1.5 million ...

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Corbett Seeks to Consolidate Business Loan Programs
LoanSafe
The big difference is that they would be overseen by the new Liberty Financing Authority. It would replace the Commonwealth Financing Authority, the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority, the Pennsylvania Minority Business Development Authority ...

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