Forbes (blog)
Introducing the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Four Defining Characteristics
Forbes (blog)
Taiwan's entrepreneurship ecosystem evolved in the 1990s in the context of a huge accrual of highly successful Taiwanese expatriates in the US. China's entrepreneurship ecosystem is evolving now in the context of diverse regional policies and a ...

Column: A guide to financing a small business
Wausau Daily Herald
In a perfect business, the owner would need no financing. For the 99.9 percent of people who start businesses, however, some financing is needed. One of the biggest hurdles a new entrepreneur will face is finding the financing for his or her business. ...
Small firms get mixed results with loansThe News-Press
To Your Credit, Part 1American Drycleaner
Mobile App Designed To Assist Small BusinessesSmall Business News from Gaebler.com

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Column: A guide to financing a small business
Wausau Daily Herald
One of the biggest hurdles a new entrepreneur will face is finding the financing for his or her business. There are many sources of startup financing available, even with the economy being slow. The business owner first must find their own credit score ...
A Fitting End to Small Business WeekThe White House (blog)
SBA unveils free app for biz owners, entrepreneursBizjournals.com
SBA Introduces New Mobile Application for Small Business Owners, EntrepreneursSYS-CON Media (press release)
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Lendio Offers New Grads Business Funding Opportunities
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Only 5% of Americans say college is where students currently learn to become entrepreneurs. 73% of Americans say the best way to teach a student to become an entrepreneur is by them creating a business or interning in a start-up. ...

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AZ Disruptors Pitch Day for Web Startups Attracts Local Entrepreneurs, Investors
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The AZ Disruptors program was founded by Hamid Shojaee, the seasoned entrepreneur behind Axosoft and TransferBigFiles.com, two of Scottsdale's most successful web software businesses. For the next four months, the startup companies selected to join the ...

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AZ Disruptors Pitch Day for Web Startups Attracts Local Entrepreneurs, Investors
Benzinga
Entrepreneurs and investors come out in support of the local startup ecosystem at Scottsdale event. The AZ Disruptors incubator for Web software businesses launched with a bang at its Pitch Day last Friday. Dozens of successful entrepreneurs and ...

Corbett seeking to consolidate Pennsylvania's loans to businesses ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
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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Highview, Nortel, Colonial, Raser, IGP, Tubo, LTAP: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
They are arguing against Raser's proposed financing and procedures for selling the business, mostly likely to secured creditors. Raser wants the bankruptcy court in Delaware to sanction a July 25 auction for the right to sponsor a reorganization plan ...

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Private firm HB Capital Resources has rich role in municipal bonds
Los Angeles Times
HB Capital is now exporting its financing model nationwide through an agency it launched late last year in Wisconsin. Known as the Public Finance Authority, or PFA, it was given unusual power by the Wisconsin Legislature to issue municipal bonds ...
Audit of Conduits SoughtBond Buyer

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New York Times (blog)
Peter Thiel Announces Inaugural Class of 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows
Gamut News
Peter Thiel \ˈtēl\ is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. Today he is known as the mentor of the PayPal mafia of entrepreneurs, as well as for his warnings ...
Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100000 Not to Attend CollegeChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

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Impasse continues over school finance bill
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Rick Perry said he is confident that lawmakers will resolve the setback over school finance and adjourn by midnight Monday without the need for him to call them back to Austin to deal with unfinished business. "I'm pretty optimistic about getting the ...

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Gamut News
Fed's Hoenig urges restricting banks to loans, deposits
Stamford Advocate
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said banks' business should be confined to loans and deposits to avert a recurrence of the federal bailouts and near-collapse of the financial system in 2008. "The consequence of expanding the ...
Fed's Hoenig Says Banks' Business Should Be Limited to Avoid Crisis RepeatBloomberg

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Who you gonna call?
Mountain Xpress
Small Business Administration's Western North Carolina office offers information on small-business loans, grants, bonds and other financial assistance (29 Haywood St., Asheville, 225-1844; http://www.sba.gov). • Small Business and Technology ...

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USA Today
Chrysler Pays Back Billions in Bailout Loans: Is the Comeback Complete?
PBS NewsHour
MITT ROMNEY, (R) former Massachusetts governor: ... that, if you write a check, they're going to go out of business. JEFFREY BROWN: Today's move was the latest step in what may be a broader revival of a Detroit auto industry all but left for dead two ...
Chrysler Pays Back Rescue LoanNew York Times
Marchionne: Chrysler, Fiat Integration IntensifiesABC News
Editorial: A bailout that workedMilford Daily News
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New York Times
Chrysler Pays Back Rescue Loan
New York Times
Chrysler was able to repay the loans because it had negotiated new financing with a consortium of investment banks that includes a term loan of $3 billion, debt securities totaling $3.2 billion and a revolving credit facility of $1.3 billion. ...

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Small firms get mixed results with loans
The News-Press
The 7(a) loan program is the SBA's most popular, and is for small business owners unable to obtain a conventional loan from a bank. Another popular loan program is the 504, typically used to finance the purchase of business property, buildings, ...
To Your Credit, Part 1American Drycleaner
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BB&T Real Estate Funding Actively Lending
PR Newswire (press release)
... BBTREF provides clients with attractive alternatives to ordinary recourse bank financing while tailoring financing solutions that manage risks, maximize profits and support the execution of clients' business plans — project after project. ...

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Brazil Deposit Fund to Finance Bank Takeovers, Central Bank Says
BusinessWeek
May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's deposit guarantee fund may keep financing acquisitions in the nation's banking industry after demand for purchasing credit portfolios from mid-sized banks dried up, said central bank ...

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Sandbox Industries Unveils Healthcare Accelerator Program 'HealthBox'
Private Equity Hub (press release)
Sandbox Industries, a venture capital firm and leading incubator for startup companies, today unveiled Healthbox, one of the first business accelerators in the country to focus exclusively on the healthcare industry. Healthbox builds on the success of ...

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Can ccLoop Rid Us Of Our Collective Email Woes?
TechCrunch
Launching in public beta today at Disrupt is ccLoop, a previously stealth startup founded by serial entrepreneur Michael Wolfe that aims to tackle one of the biggest problems with modern communication: the disaster that is email. ...

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