£1 Million Fund for Business Start-ups Launches Today
Allmediascotland
Bloom VC aims to raise £1m funds for new businesses in its first year and support hundreds of fledgling entrepreneurs start up their venture. Bloom VC – Venture Catalyst - is the brainchild of Amanda Boyle, a successful entrepreneur with a passion for ...

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EU Gambling, Mortgage-Broker Extinction, Bank Levy: Compliance
BusinessWeek
Brokers, who process mortgage applications and rely on lenders such as banks to provide the financing, say their industry depends on paying officers commissions tied to the interest rate or points of the mortgages they originate. ...

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Bradenton Herald
NEW FINANCING AVAILABLE FOR FRANCHISE OWNERS Program helps borrowers qualify ...
Bradenton Herald
Bancorp Bank, in partnership with Franchise America, is involved with the national Small Business Association guaranteed lending program for startup and expanding franchise businesses. The program, launched last April, is working with about a dozen ...
Financing Challenges Remain for FranchisesAccounting Today

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Small Business News: The Startup Space
Small Business Trends
What should your small business model be and what is the “it” factor that determines whether a person will be successful as an entrepreneur? You'll find out after downloading this video. 365 Days of Startups Should you keep your day job. ...

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GE Capital Sales Finance and Jennifer Convertibles
IEWY News
It is the leading provider of consumer credit programs for the Furnishings industry, and supports its retail partners with Business Center, an online suite of business and finance program management tools. “Jennifer Convertibles is one of the leading ...
GE Capital to offer consumer loans at Jennifer ConvertiblesNewsday (subscription)

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Proposed aid cuts could shutter five nursing homes
Las Vegas Review - Journal
He said nursing homes report annually their operating costs to a financial intermediary company that handles business for the state, and Duarte and Health and Human Services Director Mike Willden should be aware of their losses. ...

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Business calendar: March 24
Contra Costa Times
San Joaquin Delta College and Small Business Development Center -- Business orientation held at noon second Thursdays monthly. Get information on legal requirements and government regulations, sources of financing, how to get free help with your ...

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USA Today
Color: Trojan horse photo startup
CNNMoney
FORTUNE -- Repeat entrepreneur Bill Nguyen launches his latest company Wednesday. The name, Color, is as cute a confection as his last startup, Lala. Whereas Lala cleverly connoted that the company was a music service – Apple (AAPL) bought it in 2009 ...
New social sharing app claims to be 'revolutionary'abc7news.com
Color app for iPhone lets others peek at your photos, videoUSA Today
The Color Of MoneyTechCrunch

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Jeff Chiu / AP
msnbc.com
Business owners say the largest hurdle to success is not financing, but regulatory uncertainty. Nearly two-thirds of businesses surveyed — 63 percent — have been in business for less than one year. Jeffrey Miron, director of undergraduate studies at ...
Medicinal marijuana sales: Could they dwarf Viagra?CBS News
Medical Marijuana Market To Total 1 7 Billion In 2011 Report SaysBizjournals.com (blog)

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New social sharing app claims to be 'revolutionary'
abc7news.com
Color is the latest start-up from entrepreneur Bill Nguyen, who has had his hands in a string of successful ventures. The most recent, an online music service called LaLa, was sold to Apple in 2009. Private investors have poured $41 million, ...

Malaysia Star
June launch likely for 2nd phase of masterplan
Malaysia Star
... on matters related to business plans and senior management were made. She also stressed on the current threshold of 30% foreign ownership in banking institutions, “There should be a core of domestic banks in our financial system,'' she said. ...

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2011 RICE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION OFFERS $1 MILLION IN PRIZES
The Cypress Times
Judges will evaluate the teams as real-world entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from early stage investors and venture capital firms. The judges are asked to rank the presentations based on which company they would most likely invest. ...

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Reuters
Japan banks mull $25 bn loans to nuclear operator: Sources
Economic Times
SMFG, the utility's main lender, is expected to provide more than 500 billion yen in loans, making it the biggest single lender in the emergency financing, said the sources, who were not authorised to speak publicly about the matter. ...
Japan's material adverse change: from financings to M&AReuters Blogs (blog)

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Daily Monitor
Successful entrepreneurs are governed by skill
Daily Monitor
These expenses will drown your business, especially if your start-up capital is small. So you must work hard, really hard, to ensure that your business does not collapse. Do not let yourself be governed by chance; successful entrepreneurs are governed ...

Business leaders object to health care plan
vtdigger.org
Financial sustainability is the very problem this legislation aims to correct. Business advocates urge the Legislature to address budget considerations and a financing mechanism in H.202. Ed Sawyer, President and CEO, SBE, Inc. in Barre explained, ...

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Construction to begin soon on senior apartments near Southridge
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
General Capital Group has completed its purchase of 3 acres adjacent to Southridge Mall, and has secured financing to develop 90 senior apartments on that site. Construction on the project, ...

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Financing Challenges Remain for Franchises
Accounting Today
3 , prepared by FRANdata for the International Franchise Association Educational Foundation, shows demand for franchise business growth in 2011 far outpaces the ability of franchise businesses to access financing, despite a more positive business ...

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EDITORIAL: Bank bailout shows need for openness
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
If the troubled banks had wanted to keep their transactions private, they should have obtained financing from private sources. Of course, that was unfeasible. Their problems probably already were so serious that private sources would not have agreed to ...

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Three Firms Advising on GM's Sale of Ally Financial Preferred Shares
The American Lawyer
General Motors is selling all of its preferred shares in Ally Financial, the Detroit-based financing business formerly known as GMAC, through a $1 billion offering. GM will retain a 9.9 percent stake in Ally, whose majority owner remains the US ...

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Applied Natural Gas Fuels Closes $5 Million Senior Debt Financing
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Natural Gas Fuels, Inc. (“ANGF” or the “Company”) (OTCBB: AGAS.OB) announced today that it has secured $5 million in additional senior secured debt financing from Medley Capital, affiliate of one of the Company's existing ...

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