SeedStart Media 2011 Taking Entrepreneur Applications
Citybizlist (press release)
Established in 2008 as a partnership between serial entrepreneur Gil Beyda (Real Media and Tacoda) and Comcast Interactive Capital, Genacast's commitment to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies is already experiencing success with ...

Google Cranks Up M&A Machine
Wall Street Journal
More recently, Google paid $25 million for a small team of entrepreneurs at start-up DocVerse, which had built a tool that let people edit Microsoft Office files online. "We've been fortunate to have autonomy," said DocVerse co-founder Shan Sinha, ...

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Fitch Rates Octavius Tower/Linq Financing 'B-/RR3'; Affirms Caesars' 'CCC' IDR
Business Wire (press release)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'CCC' Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to Caesars' newly created subsidiary (Octavius Tower & Project Linq Financing Subsidiary; NewCo), which was created to facilitate the financing and development of ...

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Fitch Rates Level 3 Financing's Senior Notes 'B+/RR2'
Business Wire (press release)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'B+/RR2' issue rating to Level 3 Financing, Inc.'s (Level 3 Financing) $500 million issuance of 9.375% senior notes due 2019. The notes will rank pari passu with Level 3 Financing's existing ...

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Up to $25000 Offered to Winners in Utah Start-Up Competition
PR-USA.net (press release)
James Borzilleri, founder of Idea Partnership of Utah, is a successful entrepreneur who has spent the past 15 years working on a variety of online projects that have been used by millions of consumers and businesses. “Idea Partnership gives me the ...

Cheap credit fueling auto industry comeback
Sun-Sentinel
As the economic recovery gathered steam, domestic auto lenders like GMAC and Chrysler Financial flooded back into the business in the fall. That lured traditional banks like Bank of America, Banco Santander, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, ...
What's Driving the Surge in Auto Sales?CounterPunch

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How motorcycle instincts can help your startup
Fortune
... to ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. The two are similar in lots of ways -- fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent -- but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up. ...

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Motorcycle instincts and start-ups
Fortune (blog)
... to ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. The two are similar in lots of ways -- fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent -- but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up. ...
Motorcycle Instincts And Start-UpsThe Business Insider

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Bank loans: What business owners need to know
Bizjournals.com (blog)
In the coming weeks, the US Treasury plans to announce the first round of investments it is making in community banks nationwide as part of the Small Business Lending Fund, according to Timothy Massad, acting assistant secretary for financial stability ...
Local bank plans to increase loans to businessesKTVL

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Motorcycle Instincts And Start-Ups
The Business Insider
... ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. I think the two are similar in lots of ways…fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent…but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up ...

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Motorcycle instincts and start-ups
The Business Insider
... ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. I think the two are similar in lots of ways…fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent…but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up ...

Where are the start-up success stories?
Toronto Star
Successful business leaders and entrepreneurs like former Dragon Brett Wilson are voicing the necessity of nurturing the next generation of start-up founders. Great start-ups are being formed to create new markets, disrupt established industries and ...

Kyle Larsen Joins TCF Inventory Finance, Strengthening its Commitment to the ...
Vancouver Sun
TCF has 442 branches in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Arizona and South Dakota, providing retail and commercial banking services. TCF also conducts commercial leasing and equipment finance business in all 50 states. ...

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For Many Entrepreneurs, Life Begins at 50
Fox Business
Late last summer, Newsweek reported that Vivek Wadhwa, a self-described “academic, researcher, writer and entrepreneur,” conducted a study of over 500 successful technology businesses and found that older startup entrepreneurs were actually more ...

BusinessNewsDaily
Business Owners Reaching Into the Cookie Jar for Financing
BusinessNewsDaily
She said that while small businesses can provide income for households, owners need to be aware that financing a business from household funds opens the door for household assets to become susceptible to losses. “Business ownership is an important ...

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OregonLive.com
Small Business Loan Borrowing Options From Major Banks–Traditional Business ...
Red, White, and Blue Press
A small business loan borrowing options from major banks have been seeing mixed results over the past months as 2010 saw a time where many companies were having trouble getting access to financial opportunities through loans as many ...
Where to Go When the Bank Says No: Ideas for Small BusinessesBusinessNewsDaily
Can The SBA Help Get Small Business Loans To A Better StandingDaily News Pulse
Small Business Administration administrator Karen Mills calls small firms ...Appleton Post Crescent
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Dynex Capital, Inc. Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering
Business Wire (press release)
These factors may include, but are not limited to, changes in general economic and market conditions, including the ongoing volatility in the credit markets which impacts asset prices and the cost and availability of financing, defaults by borrowers, ...

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Alliance adds to local entrepreneurial ed
ABJ Enrepreneur
Rice University also has created national conferences with “elevator pitch” competitions for startup companies in nanotechnology, energy, clean energy, life sciences and information technology, which have served as a means for entrepreneurs to get in ...

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Hire More Help and Fewer Helpers for Your Startup
The Business Insider
In my view, one of the most important aspects of being a successful entrepreneur is surrounding yourself with people smarter than you. Don't let your ego get in the way. It's the best way for you to grow the business, as well as yourself.

Largest Cogeneration Power Plant in México, Owned by Abengoa and GE, Named ...
Business Wire (press release)
NEW YORK & MADRID--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The financing of México's largest cogeneration power plant—owned by GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE:GE), and Abengoa (MCE: ABG.MC)—has been named Overall Latin American and Latin American Power ...

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