WaterSmart Software Seals $900000
Private Equity Hub (press release)
They are in the business of helping entrepreneur dreams come true. Their experience spans all aspects of growing successful companies from the formative stage through management of multi-billion dollar enterprises. Sand Hill Angels focus on investments ...

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Environmental Finance
Development Coalition Looks to Aid North Africa
New York Times
The bank valued its business volume in 2010 at 9 billion euros, $12.83 billion. The bank also helped support banks in Eastern Europe during the financial crisis, and has helped finance the continuing cleanup in Ukraine at the site of the 1986 Chernobyl ...
EBRD Events Start in Astana This WeekGazeta.KZ

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GrowthBusiness.co.uk
Business Startup: Entrepreneur Doug Richards backs start-ups
GrowthBusiness.co.uk
Highlights over the next two days include new features such as Start Your Own Retail Business, Starting an Internet Business and Inspiring Women, which brings together successful female entrepreneurs. The speed-networking stand provides a location for ...

Telegraph.co.uk
New £2.5bn Fund For Small Firms Needing Cash
Sky News
"Companies of this size have often struggled to secure financing to support their growth plans - too big for start-up funding and too small to tap into larger commercial funding." The fund has been set up with the support of UK's largest banks, HSBC, ...
UK banks back $4 bln fund for small businessesReuters
New fund for medium-sized firmsBBC News
BCC welcomes launch of Business Growth FundStock Market Wire
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Western Union and Dollar Financial Extend Global Agreement to Offer Western ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Dollar Financial Corp is a leading international diversified financial services company primarily serving unbanked and under-banked consumers and small business owners for over 30 years. Through its retail storefront locations as well as by other means ...

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On Deck Launches First- Ever Credit Score for Main Street Businesses ...
PR Newswire (press release)
That information is combined with social, tax, industry and firmographic data to create a complete financial profile of the business never before available. To date, the On Deck system has delivered over $125M to Main Street businesses nationwide, ...

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Commerical Finance Group
NAMA plans measures to boost property deals
RTE.ie
The National Asset Management Agency plans to provide financing measures for residential and commercial property deals. In speeches given today in Cork and Dublin, NAMA chairman Frank Daly and chief executive Brendan McDonagh, respectively, ...
Nama unveils mortgage planIrish Times

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Business see few signs business is improving
Eagle Tribune
The US Commerce Department announced this week housing starts fell 10.6 percent nationwide last month in the wake of a general lack of confidence in the market, difficulty obtaining financing, and competition from the sale of foreclosed homes. ...

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Therese Poletti
MarketWatch
(NASDAQ:SHLD) “A lot of engineering talent has been tied up in safe jobs,” said Justyn Howard, the co-founder and chief executive of a young Chicago startup called Sprout Social. “The culture here, until recently, has never been to work for a startup. ...

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Lehman, Windstar, Wolf Mountain, Lotus, Alabama Air: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
It offered to buy the business in exchange for about $40 million in secured debt, including the $10 million it was providing as financing for the Chapter 11 case. Two of Windstar's yachts accommodate 148 guests and the third has births for 312. ...

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Groupon halo boosts Chicago tech startups
MarketWatch
(NASDAQ:SHLD) “A lot of engineering talent has been tied up in safe jobs,” said Justyn Howard, the co-founder and chief executive of a young Chicago startup called Sprout Social. “The culture here, until recently, has never been to work for a startup. ...

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Intellihot begins production May 27
Galesburg Register-Mail
Sri Deivasigamani of Intellihot Green Technology accepts the award for Small Business Financing Project of the Year at the Small Business Day 2011 Award Luncheon on Tuesday. By Anonymous Intellihot Green Technology Inc. of Galesburg will begin ...

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Business leaders: Innovation cultivation key to Boulder's future
Daily Camera
Noting that Boulder has a high number of entrepreneurs per capita, Brad Feld, managing director of the Foundry Group and a co-founder of Boulder-based startup accelerator TechStars, said Boulder -- with its history, the collection of serial ...
Feld: Entrepreneurs must be leadersBoulder County Business Report

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Telegraph.co.uk
UK banks back $4 bln fund for small businesses
Reuters
LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Five of Britain's top banks are backing a 2.5 billion pound fund ($4 billion) launched on Thursday to invest in small and medium-sized businesses that are struggling to attract financing. The Business Growth Fund (BGF), ...
New fund for medium-sized firmsBBC News
BCC welcomes launch of Business Growth FundStock Market Wire
Vince Cable set to launch business growth fundScotsman
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EGIA Launches Expanded GEOSmart Financing Program to Provide Commercial ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
This will round out EGIA's comprehensive list of energy efficiency and renewable financing services to include commercial leasing, residential unsecured revolving and residential unsecured Same As Cash financing, business expansion financing and ...

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Concho Resources Inc. Announces Pricing of Senior Unsecured Notes
Insurance News Net (press release)
... uncertainties about our ability to successfully execute our business and financial plans and strategies; uncertainties about our ability to replace reserves and economically develop our current reserves; general economic and business conditions, ...

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Why entrepreneurs are dumping US; Start-up Visa may help
Economic Times
After working with eBay for some years and launching his first start-up (a telecom services portal), Sureka traded entrepreneurial mecca Silicon Valley for Delhi last November. Packing up his home and returning to another continent with his ...

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Ahmedabad becoming hatching hub for entrepreneurs
Times of India
The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Incubation at DAIICT (CEID) is also looking for the right startup entrepreneurs with business ideas in the area of communication technology products. The centre is looking to incubate five such ideas. ...

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Global Access for Small Business Forum in San Leandro, Calif., Friday, May 20 ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Global Access includes a wide variety of business, financial and government partners, including the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers. Ex-Im Bank, an independent, self-sustaining federal-government agency, ...

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GeekWire
Yahoo buys Jim Heckman's online ad startup 5to1.com
GeekWire
5to1.com, an online advertising startup led by Seattle entrepreneur and former Fox Interactive media exec Jim Heckman, has been acquired by Yahoo in a deal of undisclosed size. “We're thrilled for our media partners that Yahoo! is backing our platform ...

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