Business Financial Services and First Data Expand Partnership to Provide ...
Newswire Today (press release)
Since 2006 Business Financial Services (BFS) has been the exclusive provider of cash advances to First Data's independent sales force. As of 2011 their partnership has expanded to include split funding capabilities to First Data's vast network of ISOs. ...

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Got a Question for Successful Entrepreneurs?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
If you have questions you'd like to ask any of these entrepreneurs – on any topic, from where they got their start-up capital to their personal work habits – please enter them into the live chat here. We'll try to get them answered. ...

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Grubb Gets $18M Loan, Colony Funding Half
Orange County Business Journal
Santa Ana-based real estate brokerage Grubb & Ellis Co. has secured $18 million in financing, with half coming from Los Angeles-based Colony Financial Inc. Colony is funding the loan with another undisclosed financier. ...

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Startup Advice You May Not Want — But Absolutely Need
The Business Insider
Starting a successful business is hard. And risky, too. Failure involves much more than the death of an entrepreneurial dream. But for many entrepreneurs the rewards outweigh the risks: Financial independence, autonomy, the opportunity to do what you ...

Northeast Indiana Entrepreneurs Celebrate
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
Purdue Research Foundation Senior Vice President Joe Hornett says "the continued success of the Startup Weekend represents the strength of Indiana's economy and the number of active entrepreneurs we have in our state."

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Today's entrepreneur: Richard Kang
VatorNews
Today's Entrepreneur is Richard Kang, founder and CEO of Wipit, a mobile payment startup in Los Angeles. Richard always knew he wanted to start a company, but didn't know it was going to be so soon. Last year the stars lined up: a gripping idea, ...

Global goal: a half-billion startups
CTV.ca
It was astounding to hear the keynote address delivered by Ms. Li Yandong – a senior member of the Communist Party of China Central Committee – focus on the importance of entrepreneurship education in universities and the need to support new start-up ...

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The Business Insider
My Biggest Entrepreneurial Challenge? Balancing My Personal And Corporate Brands
The Business Insider
The Challenge: The biggest challenge as a young entrepreneur has been time management and balancing my personal and corporate brand. In your first year as a start up, you do not necessarily have the cash flow to bring on a full time staff and you are ...

Ameritrans Capital Corporation Enters Into Definitive Agreements with ...
NewsyStocks.com
Ameritrans originates, structures and manages a portfolio of secured business loans and selected equity securities. Ameritrans' wholly owned subsidiary Elk Associates Funding Corporation was licensed by the United States Small Business Administration ...

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VentureBeat
Even angels fear to tread
Bellingham Herald
Without the money, entrepreneurs like Joel Ackerman are having a tougher time building their businesses and creating jobs. Ackerman, a former UnitedHealth Group executive, needs $2 million to build his startup, River Systems, which is developing ...
'Angel' investors boost hundreds of greater Nashua companiesNashua Telegraph
More angels investistockAnalyst.com (press release)

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Huntington Bancshares Incorporated Plans Expanding Michigan Auto Dealer ...
USA Market News
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated NASDAQ:HBAN yesterday announced that it plans to significantly expand Michigan auto dealer financing business and will add key personnel in Michigan to support the expansion. According to Huntington's auto finance ...
Huntington driving to build auto lending business in MichiganBizjournals.com
Huntington Expands Michigan Auto Dealer Financing BusinessPR Newswire (press release)

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Qatar Islamic Bank's Q1 net profit up 7% to QR. 321m
AME Info
... a well structured plan adhering to QIB's five-year strategic plan (2008-2012), which aims at strengthening the bank's business expansion locally and internationally, building a sound and balanced financial position, and effective risk management. ...
QIB Q1 profit gains 7%, below analyst forecastArabianBusiness.com

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PFSweb Completes Renewal of Approximately $94.0 Million in Credit Facilities
Business Wire (press release)
The Company's Supplies Distributors business renewed two separate financing agreements that support its inventory and accounts receivable needs. This includes an agreement with Wells Fargo for a $25.0 million accounts receivable financing facility, ...

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TARIS Closes $18.3 Million Series B Financing
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--TARIS Biomedical®, a specialty pharmaceutical company pioneering the development of innovative, targeted therapies using drug delivery to treat bladder diseases, announced today that it has raised $18.3 million of new capital in ...

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Startup Success workshop in Snohomish for new business
HeraldNet
This Startup Success workshop will help ground your thoughts, vision and ideas. After this workshop, you will have all you need to write a single-page business plan (and you will have completed most of it in the session). You will also learn how to ...

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China's Record Bank Lending May Spur Fitch Rating Downgrade
BusinessWeek
Chinese banks extended 7.95 trillion yuan ($1.2 trillion) of new loans last year, helping drive the economy's rebound from the global financial crisis and fueling a surge in property prices. “Fitch has documented a proliferation of off-balance sheet ...

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Startup Success workshop in Snohomish for new business
HeraldNet
This Startup Success workshop will help ground your thoughts, vision and ideas. After this workshop, you will have all you need to write a single-page business plan (and you will have completed most of it in the session). You will also learn how to ...

Independent Online
Khula to become subsidiary of IDC, with R2,8bn budget
Business Day
The consolidation will overcome the fragmentation that has existed in small business financing. It will be followed by initiatives to establish closer ties between Khula and the small business support and training offered by the Small Enterprise ...
Budget vote presentation to Parliament (excerpt): Ebrahim Patel - Minister of ...Moneyweb.co.za

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Federal Reserve's path of destruction
MarketWatch
Moreover, it might as well be said in this same vein that the business sector doesn't need no more stinking debt, neither! At the end of 2005 — before the credit bubble reached its apogee — the non-financial business sector (both corporate and ...

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Gainesville a hub of student start-ups
Tbo.com
The Startup Hour is held monthly at downtown venues and has been dubbed "Nerds Night Out" by at least one business leader. It is one of several events in recent years to bring together student and graduate entrepreneurs and inventors who bounce ideas ...

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