The bank wants its money--now
Fredericksburg.com
Company principal Francis E. Nash took out a five-year loan--a term that is common in commercial lending--in the mid-2000s to buy out his brother from the business. The loan was secured by the property at 487 Lendall, which is owned by an LLC that Nash ...

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Entrepreneur Corner: Avoiding costly customers and the valuation debate
VentureBeat
Strategy means nothing without implementation – While so much of the focus in the startup world is on formulating a successful strategy, Mark Forchette, CEO of OptiMedica notes it's all useless if you don't have a strong tactical implementation of that ...

Daily News Pulse
Small Business Loans The Path To The Future: Fueling The Economy
Daily News Pulse
The door to small business financing is finally opening, at least a crack, as more businesses are getting bank loans that are guaranteed by the US Small Business Administration or through other programs. Some banks are even granting more conventional ...
NEW SBA PROGRAM CAN HELP SOME BUSINESSES GET FINANCINGFredericksburg.com

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Innovation Investment Journal
No potential startup founder left behind
Innovation Investment Journal
Once fully baked, the recipe produces a massively raised likelihood (but no guarantee) of startup success, plus massively raised likelihood of credible foundational capability (ability to found or accelerate future successful startups at will): so what ...

Work Like It's 1999: High-Tech Incubators
TIME
Technology incubators, which invest in and nurture new tech businesses, proliferated during the last dotcom boom but then got a bad reputation in the bust, when firms like CMGI and eCompanies lost billions of dollars on countless start-up failures ...

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Britain's new entrepreneurs: young guns go for it
The Guardian
After graduating, she worked for two web start-up companies specialising in property searches – "If I worked hard on something and it didn't get used, I'd be furious. And I got really sick of working with estate agents." Instead, she moved back in with ...

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The age of the self-starter
The Guardian
But, for Ella, this holds little appeal. She wants to be an entrepreneur. "I definitely want to start up my own business," she says, nodding her head vigorously. "I'd like to do something in design, related to what my father already does. ...

FHA Powers What's Left of the Home Market
Wall Street Journal
The FHA played a major role in assisting the housing market during the economic collapse in 2008 and 2009, says Robert Van Order, professor of finance and co-author of the George Washington University School of Business report. ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Think Tank: Standard setters march on - but not to the same beat
Telegraph.co.uk
New standards on leasing will bring off balance sheet finance arrangements onto the balance sheet for the first time for many private companies, making the use of some artificial financing arrangements redundant. To top it off, all but the smallest ...

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Have questions about the municipal service district? We've got answers
StarNewsOnline.com
A municipal service district, commonly referred to as a Business Improvement District, is a financing mechanism used to provide revenue for a variety of services that enhance, not replace, existing city services. State law passed in 1973 allows cities ...

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San Diego County Credit Union expands residential and commercial real estate ...
San Diego Metropolitan
San Diego County Credit Union (SDCCU), San Diego's largest locally-owned financial institution, is continuing to expand its residential and commercial real estate loan services, according to Teresa Halleck, president and CEO. ...

NewsFormatics.com
How do corporate finance and small business finance differ?
NewsFormatics.com
Mar 4, 2011 – Corporate finance and small business lending can be great sources for an auto loan. Both loans require amortization according to the schedule chosen on income tax forms. A car loan using business financing is harder to negotiate than car ...

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"A Healthy Financial System Cannot Be Built on the Expectation of Bailouts"
Huffington Post (blog)
This is a serious impediment to a sustained rebound in the real economy - already reflected in continued tight credit for small- and medium-sized business. 13) Even more problematic is the underlying incentive to take excessive risk in the financial ...

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Northeastern Wisconsin's top business stories of 2010
Green Bay Press Gazette
File/Press-Gazette The year ended with a late push of business developments in Northeastern Wisconsin, headed up by Marinette Marine landing a Navy contract to build small, fast warships and developers securing financing for a roughly $12 million ...

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Nestle prefers investments over payouts - paper
Reuters
"It is our preference to invest in business -- including M&A transactions, as long as they make sense for the company," Nestle's Chief Financial Officer James Singh told Boersen-Zeitung in an interview published on Saturday. "At the same time it is our ...

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UK web entrepreneurs take trade mission to Silicon Valley
V3.co.uk
Eighteen of the UK's most successful technology start-up companies are jetting off to the States today as part of a government backed initiative designed to promote UK web entrepreneurialism and open up their businesses to an international market. ...

Bombardier signs financing deal with ICBC
Calgary Herald
Bombardier Inc. has signed a second aircraft financing deal with a Chinese leasing company, spurring speculation a Chinese airline may be about to order Bombardier regional or business jets or make a commitment to the new CSeries commercial airliner. ...

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Angel Network looks for launch funds
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The network, hosted by the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, aims to help build an ecosystem that encourages successful entrepreneurs to contribute back to the start-up community. Entrepreneurs who raise money through the network will be asked later ...

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Business Owners: Heed Personal Credit Scores
BusinessWeek
Obtaining financing is still difficult for small business owners, particularly those with poor personal credit histories. For most lenders, the business owner's personal credit score has become an all-important classifier, ...

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Vanguard
Changing people from employees to entrepreneur giants is my goal – Bola Adeboye
Vanguard
What an individual needs is an idea to start up a business. Most successful business all over the world started with little or no capital. Principally, we take aspiring entrepreneurs merely because the interest has to be there in the first place. ...