Incubators help ventures fly
Cincinnati.com
Last year, more than 800 entrepreneurs submitted business plans for review to CincyTech, Coy said. “There are a lot of great ideas out there. The pipeline is strong.” While Cincinnati may not have the star power of high-profile, start-up markets such ...

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Can China Slow Its Bank Lending?
Seeking Alpha
Many believe this is just business as usual in China. After all, non-performing loans (NPLs) have been an unavoidable byproduct of Beijing's quasi-command economy from the very beginning. Predicated on maintaining social stability through the ...

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Buy Now, Pay Later
Wall Street Journal
... companies are expanding financing programs and rolling out their own new models. For some commercial building owners, the problem isn't finding the money to pay for upgrades—it's losing the opportunity to use that cash for their core business. ...

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Marine Industry to See Modest Growth in 2011, GE Capital Survey Reveals
Manufacturing.net
GE Capital, Commercial Distribution Finance provided more than $30 billion in financing to 30000 manufacturers and their distributors across the Americas in 2010. Programs include inventory and accounts receivable financing, asset-based lending, ...
GE Capital Offers Outdoor Products Dealers A New Financing ProgramLive-PR.com (press release)

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Marketing And The Bubble
The Business Insider
I totally agree with Rand that VCs and entrepreneurs learned the hard way in the last bubble that spending a ton of money on marketing didn't guarantee success. More likely it guaranteed failure. And I am certain that experience has caused me and my ...

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Secret campaign ad financing in offing as FEC is deadlocked
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — If an impasse at the Federal Election Commission remains unbroken, business corporations, unions and wealthy individuals will be able to fund hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign ...

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Want to back an entrepreneur? Best bet is to go for old
The National
Part of the reason for this, of course, is that many mature entrepreneurs witness failed ventures and apply what they have learnt when creating a new start-up later in life. These kinds of experiences can not be underestimated, as they help to build a ...

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Stanford University Entrepreneurship Week With Speakers and Campus Events
All Things Digital (blog)
The week-long, campus-wide event series is ultimately designed to encourage interaction between student entrepreneurs and potential investors, and to burnish Stanford's credentials as a hub of tech and business innovation. And while start-up ...

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VentureBeat
A small game studio scores big with Torchlight (video)
VentureBeat
So Runic's success so far is an inspiring example for would-be entrepreneurs who want to create a new company in the video game business. “I think the era of the five-year, $90 million project may be coming an end and mercifully so,” Schafer said. ...

Hindu Business Line
Shriram Transport Finance rolls out Automall near Chennai
Hindu Business Line
For me, this is my daily routine – I have been in this business for thirty years'. Even as I wonder if a little more tan would have helped get him talk more, he proceeds to enlighten me, “If I go for a new truck that is going to cost me around Rs 18 ...

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Businesses see lending open up a bit
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Now, 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 ...

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New Albany blog will share business' success stories
Delaware News
"We're building on the momentum that is already there and providing an outlet for our success stories to be told," Chrysler said. The blog launched with a variety of stories, including a post spotlighting eProximiti, a startup business that alerts ...

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Buffalo News
Small business lending falls off
Buffalo News
The pace of small business lending in Western New York slowed considerably last month from the previous three months, as temporary fee waivers and other expansions of US Small Business Administration programs expired or ran out ...
SBA to allow 504 loans to be refinancedNorth Bay Business Journal
Here's how to get your small business up and runningUSA Today
SCORE: Small-business program can helpTraverse City Record Eagle
OpenMarket.org -Vail Daily News -istockAnalyst.com (press release)
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AddressTwo Accepting Entries for Bootstrap Battle 2011
PR-USA.net (press release)
... his strategy for building a successful startup without accepting round-A capital investment. “In the startup community, funding seems to be all the craze. But this competition will honor those entrepreneurs who have decided not to sell equity. ...

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Buffalo News
SCORE: Small-business program can help
Traverse City Record Eagle
Nothing good in life comes easy, and that includes getting financing for your small business. No federal government agency — including the US Small Business Administration (SBA) — offers grants to start or expand small businesses, ...
Small business lending falls offBuffalo News

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Columbus Dispatch
Small businesses find it a little easier to get loans
Columbus Dispatch
For Martinez, like scores of other small businesses, getting necessary financing has been a challenge as the economy slumped, banks shied from lending, and loan demand waned in a sort of recessionary Catch-22. Now, the door to small-business financing ...

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Washington Post
The Kings really mean business
Stockton Record
Financing a new facility would have to include public funds, so say the Maloofs, city officials and real estate development analysts. What say taxpayers? Take a flying leap. And that's exactly what the Maloofs are preparing to do. ...
Maloofs once led cheers, but now they're silentSacramento Bee

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Out of work, some invest time, savings in franchises
The Tennessean
The least expensive options often attract first-time business owners who may be less savvy about the financial risks and only dream of the possible rewards. At a marketing booth for Yogurt Mountain, the chain's franchise vice president, Brian Robinson, ...

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Out of work, some invest time, savings in franchises
The Tennessean
Others are less visible, but they may offer modest startup costs and the ability to work from home in some cases. Among the possibilities are senior-care services, one of the fastest-growing franchise fields because of the aging of baby boomers and ...

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Small businesses struggle to find financial footing
TMCnet
We have not had problems with financing. That is not the case for many other small businesses, though," he said. Yet, as is the case with most small businesses, MLP's sales are down, which Pfeifer said has forced the business to change some of the ...

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