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Obama-Endorsed VC Program Promises 6000 New Startups, 25000 Jobs
Hot Hardware
The White House is throwing its weight behind a new way to better support hopeful tech entrepreneurs based on the mentorship model. About two weeks ago, TechStars Network launched as part of the White House Startup America initiative. ...

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Benchmark Capital Bets On Super-Quiet-Stealth-Shhhh ccLoop
TechCrunch
Heard about ccLoop? No, probably not. It's a new stealth startup founded by repeat (and very successful) entrepreneur Michael Wolfe. The company came out of Wolfe's stint as an entrepreneur in residence last year at Benchmark Capital. ...

PV-Tech
California's SolarCity Sees a Bright Market on the East Coast
DailyFinance
The growing demand for solar power from consumers and businesses has spawned different business models. SolarCity provides sales, installation, financing and operating and maintenance of solar electric systems with staff in-house. ...
Leading residential solar installer looks eastZDNet (blog)
SolarCity taps GroSolar to bring solar leasing eastCNET
SolarCity expands operations into the East CoastSmartPlanet.com (blog)
Business Wire (press release) -PR Web (press release) -RenewableEnergyWorld.com
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SBA Launches Temporary Program for Commercial Real Estate Refinancing
Business Wire (press release)
Together with the first mortgage, this temporary program will provide up to $33.8 billion of total project financing. Additional fees charged to the borrower will cover the cost of this refinancing program and as a result no subsidy will be needed. ...

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Pre-Eminent Physician-Entrepreneur, Frederic H. Moll, Elected to Board of ...
Centre Daily Times
... announced the election of Frederic H. Moll, MD, a serial entrepreneur whose start-up ventures have included Intuitive Surgical, Inc., the manufacturer of one of today's most successful and innovative medical devices, the da Vinci Surgical System. ...

PPR Appoints Chief Pinault to Run Gucci as Unit Bolsters Profit
BusinessWeek
Though the environment for disposals is “much better” than before, any transactions will depend on potential buyers' financing abilities, Pinault said today at a presentation in Paris. PPR will try to get the “highest price possible” for the assets, ...

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LaBranche & Co Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter 2010 Results
Business Wire (press release)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LaBranche & Co Inc. (NYSE: LAB) (the “Company”) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010. The Company reported an after-tax net loss of $38.2 million, or $0.93 per share, which included ...
LaBranche & Co Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter 2010 ResultsTrading Markets (press release)

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Cowen Group Discloses Preliminary 2010 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Financial ...
Business Wire (press release)
Cowen Group, Inc. is a leading diversified financial services firm providing alternative investment management, investment banking, research, and sales and trading services through its business units, Ramius and Cowen and Company. ...

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Financing outstrips advisory and markets at BNP Paribas
Financial News
BNP Paribas financing business, which draws on the French bank's €550bn retail deposit base to make loans in markets including energy and commodities, has returned to become one of the investment banking division's biggest earners for the first time ...
BNP Paribas earnings up 13.6 percentThe FINANCIAL
Bespoke structures boost BNP Paribas' 2010 resultsRisk.net

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Avista Corp. Reports Financial Results for Fiscal Year and the Fourth Quarter 2010
PR Newswire (press release)
We expect to issue up to $25 million of common stock in 2011 in order to finance a portion of our capital expenditures, while maintaining our capital structure at an appropriate level for our business. We are party to a sales agency agreement under ...

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West Announces Fourth Quarter 2010 Results
PR Newswire (press release)
Net interest expense of $4.4 million was $0.5 million higher in the 2010 quarter as a result of higher financing costs. Excluding items described in "Restructuring and Other Items", the quarterly effective tax rate was 17.0% in the current period, ...
VASCO Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010IT News Online
NewStar Reports Fourth Quarter 2010 ResultsTrading Markets (press release)
EnerNOC Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial ResultsMarketwire (press release)
SYS-CON Media (press release)
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Universal American Corp. Reports 2010 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
Business Wire (press release)
RYE BROOK, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal American Corp. (NYSE: UAM) today announced financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. “Financially, 2010 was the best year in our history. Each of our two main operating segments, ...

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Science Business
University entrepreneurs need help to succeed
Science Business
Experience in a large multinational may not be in line with the needs of someone running a small start-up with three employees. Serial entrepreneurs make the best mentors believes Kristo Ovaska, co-founder of Aalto Venture Garage at Aalto University in ...

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TECH10 Winner - Hamzah Ansari, Accelereach
GoLocalProv
With a love of learning and continuous improvements, Hamzah has also taken his experiences as a success start-up entrepreneur and invested them back into the community as a mentor. Hamzah cannot resist the entrepreneurial excitement, and is already ...

Fast Company
Startup America Gives Cleantech Entrepreneurs a Leg Up
Triple Pundit
Each entrepreneur will be paired with two mentors that the business accelerators identify. The mentors will give advice on everything from finding funding sources to hiring new staff to how to commercialize new technologies and grow successful ...
Startup America Launches Entrepreneurial Mentor Corps for Budding Business OwnersFast Company

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MMV Financial Extends $3.5MM in Growth Capital to Sermo
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
... community in the US The financing, part of a larger $5 million facility for Sermo, will allow the company to continue expanding its physician community while serving a growing roster of over 300 clients. "Sermo has pioneered a business model where ...

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Sanofi chief hints Mass. may lose some Genzyme jobs
Boston Globe
“I don't know what Sanofi is going to bring to the party,'' said Christopher J. Raymond, managing director at Chicago financial firm Robert W. Baird & Co. “Genzyme invented the business.'' The two chief executives, who haggled over the sales price for ...
Sanofi-Genzyme Bankers to Reap $125 Million for AdviceBloomberg
AP Business NewsBrief at 4:38 pm ESTTMCnet

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Creating a brand from scratch
StartupSmart
Tarquinio says spending more money during the brand set-up phase doesn't earn you greater success down the track. “You do see the average punter come up with a great brand from time to time,” he says. Australian entrepreneur Justin Herald is living ...

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Borders Gets Court Approval For $505 Mln Of Debtor-in-possession Financing
RTT News
Mike Edwards, President of Borders Group, said, "We are moving quickly right at the outset of the Chapter 11 process to restore stability to our business and protect our enterprise and its brand. We now have financing to pay our vendors and other ...
Borders Receives Court Approval for $505 Mln of Debtor-In-Possession Financing ...Wall Street Journal
Borders Receives Court Approval for $505 Million of Debtor-in-Possession FinancingPR Newswire (press release)
Borders Group files for bankruptcy reorganizationLos Angeles Times
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Reuters
Borders Receives Court Approval for $505 Mln of Debtor-In-Possession Financing ...
Wall Street Journal
... its $505 million of debtor-in-possession financing led by GE Capital, Restructuring Finance. The books retailer will use the funds to pay vendors, publishers and other suppliers for post-petition goods and services and for business operation. ...
Borders Gets Court Approval For $505 Mln Of Debtor-in-possession FinancingRTT News
Borders gets OK to use $400 million to fund operations during bankruptcyJournal Pioneer
Borders Receives Court Approval for $505 Million of Debtor-in-Possession FinancingPR Newswire (press release)
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