Finance and Commerce
Small business loans in demand, funding has not kept pace
Finance and Commerce
Lind is the director of small business financing for the Minneapolis Community Planning and Development (CPED) agency, and he was talking about the Capital Acquisition Loan (CAL) program, which helps owners of very small businesses buy buildings and ...

Ally Financial Begins Repayment of U.S. Treasury Investment
PR Newswire (press release)
The company offers a full suite of automotive financing products and services in key markets around the world. Ally's other business units include mortgage operations and commercial finance, and the company's subsidiary, Ally Bank, offers online retail ...

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What's the point of 'Boston vs. Silicon Valley'?
Boston Globe
People believe in the lean start-up methodology, and they don't get stuck trying to make a business plan spreadsheet come to life. He has had the chance to meet both Craig Newmark of Craiglist and Mark Zuckerberg. In person! I've lived in the Bay Area, ...

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MPG Office Trust Reports Fourth Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Business Wire (press release)
MPG Office Trust, Inc. is the largest owner and operator of Class A office properties in the Los Angeles central business district and is primarily focused on owning and operating high-quality office properties in the Southern California market. ...

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Daily News Pulse
Can The SBA Help Get Small Business Loans To A Better Standing
Daily News Pulse
While the SBA's recent venture into new small business lending options, which hopefully is set to offer companies in underserved areas or businesses in need of a small amount of capital the opportunity to borrow, as more major financial institutions ...
SBA chief: Small firms vital to recoveryAppleton Post Crescent

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Kairos Society Student Entrepreneurs Take Over NYSE Trading Floor
Huffington Post
Yet, unlike Rockefeller and most modern billionaire do-gooders, the Kairos fellows -- and the new wave of young social entrepreneurs -- want to address humanity's greatest challenges from the get-go. Rather than waiting until they're successful enough ...

Twitter Boosts San Francisco Offices as Banks Give Up Space
BusinessWeek
San Francisco's vacancy rate will drop more than any other US city's in 2011, declining to 14.8 percent from 15.6 percent, according to Reis Inc. A $1.5 billion financing round for Facebook Inc. led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. ...

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Obama Spreads Innovation Agenda To Middle America
Huffington Post (blog)
Although she had resources regionally, she hoped to find assistance from successful entrepreneurs from other parts of the country, like Silicon Valley. And whether the discussion among entrepreneurs is around connecting to consumers, mentoring or ...

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Ottawa Business Journal
Silicon Valley: A big bright heat lamp for startup incubation
Ottawa Business Journal
The story of Silicon Valley's evolution, which is obviously far beyond the confines of this series, continues to support the misconception that the US is somehow better at producing successful entrepreneurs and multinational technology enterprises than ...

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Washington, DC Home Sales Remain Flat as Mortgage Financing Remains a Challenge
Business Wire (press release)
ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RBI, the primary source of real estate data, analytics, and business intelligence for real estate professionals in the Mid-Atlantic region, today released its 2010 year end statistical analysis for the Washington, ...

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Collection Development | Part-Time Businesses, March 1, 2011
Library Journal
A good guideline provided by a recent LJ collection development feature is five years (see Susan Awe's “Start-Up Success,” LJ 5/1/10). Entrepreneurs value staying ahead of the curve and will demand the latest titles and editions. ...

Rabobank announces small farm loan fund
Fresno Business Journal
Rabobank, NA created a $15 million fund to help small farmers in California get financing for operations, equipment and crop production, officials announced. The bank partnered with Fresno's Valley Small Business Development Corporation and the ...

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Entrepreneurs powering Cleveland makeover
Reuters
Last week President Obama chose the city to launch his Startup America tour aimed at fostering entrepreneurship across the country. "We have an incredible infrastructure for making things," said Steve Millard, president of the Council of Smaller ...

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Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Young entrepreneurs start up own businesses after attending a course
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
THREE young people from Chesham have decided to start up their own businesses after attending a course in the town last week. The 12 Steps to Success course designed by 21-year-old Carly Ward, who is managing director and founder of Young Entrepreneur ...

Newtek Business Services, Inc., The Small Business Authority, Obtains ...
American Chronicle
The Company has been able to generate good growth in Newtek Business Credit and we intend to purchase between $100 and $150 million of receivables during 2011. Our ability to do receivables financing in conjunction with our term lending business offers ...

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Fred Wilson comes to Harvard Business School
The Business Insider
Early on in a start-up, entrepreneurs should be hunch-driven more than data-driven. If you are only data-driven, the risk is that you will move too slowly. It's more important to have a hypothesis about what might work and what might not work and then ...

Newtek Business Services, Inc., The Small Business Authority, Obtains ...
GlobeNewsWire (press release)
The Company has been able to generate good growth in Newtek Business Credit and we intend to purchase between $100 and $150 million of receivables during 2011. Our ability to do receivables financing in conjunction with our term lending business offers ...

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Crystal Financial And CIT Provide Financing To Piggly Wiggly Holdings
TheStreet.com (press release)
This new credit facility provides additional borrowing capacity to help us strategically grow our business as we take advantage of opportunities to earn the maximum return on our assets.” Crystal Financial is a commercial finance company which ...

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Formula Boats and GE Capital Renew Dealer Inventory Financing Program
Business Wire (press release)
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Capital's Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF) business today announced a renewed agreement with Porter, Inc. to provide floorplan financing options for dealers purchasing its Formula Boat brands. ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Start-Up 100: Let's talk about exits
Telegraph.co.uk
For the entrepreneur, planning an exit is not as simple as putting a slide in your investor presentation which says something like: 'Exit plan – Sell to a big company for a high price', but, believe me, I still see this kind of thing all the time. ...