My Job As A Pre-Launch Startup CEO Was To Buy Sandwiches
Washington Post
By TechCrunch.com, Seth Sternberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Meebo. He previously worked in M&A at IBM. I love talking to aspiring entrepreneurs—I do it once a week at minimum. I often get asked “what's the role of a startup CEO? ...
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Filibuster Kills School Finance Bill
FOX 4 News
Perry spokesman Mark Miner said other unfinished business could be put on the agenda for a special session. This session's unfinished business includes an immigration enforcement measure, which Perry had declared an emergency.

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Developer slams banks' lending practices
Independent Online
Wentzel said Standard Bank had more recently “come to the party” to provide loans to this market but Absa “was closed for business” because it had been instructed by major shareholder Barclays to reduce the size of its home loan book. ...

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My Job As A Pre-Launch Startup CEO Was To Buy Sandwiches
TechCrunch
He previously worked in M&A at IBM. I love talking to aspiring entrepreneurs—I do it once a week at minimum. I often get asked “what's the role of a startup CEO?” Sometimes people are curious about the pre-launch “CEO” and ask if a startup really ...

Financing an MBA, With Help From Mom and Dad (BusinessWeek)
ABCmoney.co.uk
Brooke Henze, 28, and her husband, who both recently graduated from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business(Fuqua Full-Time MBA Profile), used their personal savings to pay for their first year of business school. But when it came time to finance ...

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Dutch Mortgage Margins Fall as Competition Rises, NMa Says
BusinessWeek
At the same time, tighter access to financing prevented new players from entering, it said. BNP, France's largest bank, increased its share of the mortgage market in the Netherlands to 7.7 percent last year from 0.5 percent in 2004, while that of Dutch ...

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Financing Options: Friends and Family
Benzinga
This is the first in a series of posts about financing options for startups. By "financing" I mean obtaining cash to fund your business. There are all sorts of strategies to avoid needing funding, but this series is not about them. ...

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Entrepreneur
SCORE: Is the SBA still making business loans?
Naples Daily News
QUESTION: I hear the Small Business Administration (SBA) is making loans again. What is the process to obtain a business loan? ANSWER: To begin, you should understand that the SBA does not make loans; they guarantee loans made by ...
Opus Bank Announces Small Business Administration Preferred Lender Status ...MarketWatch (press release)
Wilmington Trust again is tops in small business lendingThe News Journal
Small firms' loan demand up for first time in 5 yearsOCRegister
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BCR open for business
Business Review
Dominic Bruynseels, CEO of BCR, tells Business Review about the perspectives of the local banking system and emphasizes the main elements of BCR's strategy, one of which is increasing lending to companies in 2011 by financing productive sectors. ...

India gold loans market turns competitive, more banks, FIs in fray
Commodity Online
Meanwhile, Muthoot Finance Ltd, India's largest gold financing company whose Initial Public Offering (IPO) was heavily oversubscribed and subsequently listed in Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) this month has announced plans to take gold loan business ...

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Solar Mash Offers Free Directory Listing Service to Solar Installers
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Solar Mash is a growing solar information web site, used by many solar installers to promote their residential, commercial, and financing services. Because Solar Mash provides free directory listings and installer pages, listing your company's overview ...

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Today in the press
RTE.ie
Officials hope that as much as half of the €60-€70 billion in new financing needed by Athens until the end of 2013 could be accounted for without new loans. Under a plan advocated by some, much of that would be covered by the sale of state assets and ...

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Tech calendar, 05/30/11
Denver Post
Denver Startup Weekend is a weekend-long event where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable. On average, half of the weekend's attendees have technical backgrounds and the other half have business backgrounds. ...

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Venture capitalist gives entrepreneurs tips on the best pitch
Denver Post
"For me, it's about the tremendous networking," 28- year-old entrepreneur Dan Lynn said about startup week. Lynn is co-founder of Rainmaker, a member of the current class of startups at TechStars, one of the nation's top accelerator programs. ...

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Energy discounts in bill stir concern
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The bill would expand a pilot program to offer a discount of up to $5 million over five years to Mercury Marine, the final piece of a more than $120 million state-and-local financing package that helped the engine maker decide not to move to Oklahoma. ...

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Proteostasis partners with enthusiastic backer
Boston Globe
... of its current financing round to a targeted $15.8 million. This report was compiled by the editors of Xconomy, an online news website focused on the business of technology and innovation. For more New England coverage, visit www.Xconomy.com/boston.
Elan invests $20m in Proteostasis to pursue neurology drugsIn-PharmaTechnologist.com

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PayPal founder to pay budding entrepreneurs to avoid uni
StartupSmart
Once you've done the start-up thing and found what you enjoy, you don't really fit into the big business type thing anyway, which is where a degree normally comes in handy.” Nissen believes it will be awhile before Australia sees a program similar to ...

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Web start-up success dependent on mentors: Report
StartupSmart
The brainchild of serial entrepreneur Max Marmer, Blackbox recently launched the Startup Genome Project, an in-depth analysis of makes internet start-ups successful based on data from more than 650 early stage start-ups. “The goal of the Startup Genome ...
New Startup? Dude, There's a (Genome) Map for ThatGigaOm
What Makes A Startup Successful? Blackbox Report Aims To Map The Startup GenomeWashington Post
Uncovering the DNA of successful start-upsCNET
Music Ally (blog) -Geek WIth Laptop -VentureBeat
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Multi Finance shares get listed today
Daily Mirror
Founded 37 years ago as a family-owned business, MFCL provided financing for consumer durables. In February 2008, it became a part of the Entrust Group, which also includes Entrust Securities – a Central Bank appointed Primary Dealer in Government ...

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Texas House approves school finance measure
Houston Chronicle
Miner said other unfinished business could be put on the agenda for a special session. This session's unfinished business includes an immigration enforcement measure, which Perry had declared an emergency. AP writer Paul Weber contributed to this ...
20 Weeks in Texas in Which the Budget Held SwayTexas Tribune

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