BBC News
Start-up Stories: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
BBC News
"This is why I call myself an accidental entrepreneur - because it was an accidental encounter with another entrepreneur… who wanted to set up shop in India and… asked me whether I would be able to partner this venture," she says. ...

Christian Science Monitor
Entrepreneurs, beware of 'Quixote Syndrome'
Christian Science Monitor
Rather than look for the trends and evidence that their passion will translate into a successful business, they view the start-up as a virtuous mission to change the world. They plan an attack of all of the wrongs in society that have created an ...

Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy
Working Knowledge
The course focuses on the "lean startup" methodology, created by HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Eric Ries and serial entrepreneur and Stanford/UC Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank. The "lean" in lean startup has its roots in the Toyota Production System ...

The Easiest Way to Succeed as an Entrepreneur
Forbes (blog)
Many startups fail. But I've had a few successes as well. Successes in a startup makes you feel immortal. I was going to make this post: “the 12 rules to being a good entrepreneur” and I outlined the 12 rules that have consistently worked for me. ...

Novelos Therapeutics Completes Acquisition and $5.1 Million Financing to ...
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: NVLT), a pharmaceutical company developing novel drugs for treatment and diagnosis of cancer, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Cellectar, Inc., a Wisconsin-based drug ...

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Enterprise Qatar keen to inspire Entrepreneurs and SME Owners at Qatar Career ...
Zawya
Enterprise Qatar is tasked with providing aspiring entrepreneurs and current small & medium businesses with access to funding for start-up and growth, business support services such as incubation facilities, legal, financial and HR advisory services, ...

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Blueprint Medicines Secures $40 Million Series A Financing to Translate New ...
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blueprint Medicines, a company harnessing the understanding of the molecular blueprint of cancer to develop personalized, highly-selective cancer therapies, today announced the closing of a $40 million Series A financing led by Third ...

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Affiliates Corner at SMU – 20 Apr
SGentrepreneurs (press release)
This next Affiliates' Corner will have Mr Eric Tan, from SPRING Start-up Enterprise Development Scheme (SPRING SEEDS) share his experience in seed funding and nurturing innovative start-ups into successful ventures. Dr Miles Gilman, MD, A2 BioScience ...

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Eltek Valere Launches Financing Solutions for DC Power Equipment
Business Wire (press release)
DRAMMEN, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eltek Valere, the world leader in high efficiency power systems, today announced it has established a financing solutions department to help its telecommunications customers to arrange long-term rental solutions to ...

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PPL Arranges Significant Portion of Permanent Financing for U.K. Acquisition ...
Sacramento Bee
... the forward-looking statements: capital market conditions, including their effect on permanent financing of the Acquisition, and decisions regarding capital structure; PPL's ability to successfully operate the Central Networks business as planned; ...
PPL Arranges Significant Portion of Permanent Financing for U.K. Acquisition ...PR Newswire (press release)

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Hyundai Capital under full-scale probe
The Korea Herald
In the wake of the incident, financial companies in other sectors, such as commercial banks, brokerage firms, credit card firms and savings banks, have also stepped up to examine their security systems. In order to avoid detection, ...

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Globe and Mail
Need financing? Join the crowd
Globe and Mail
“The business owner will help licensees with talking points and marketing materials, and then, hopefully, see more sales.” Greg Kopchuk, head of Edmonton-based business-consulting firm ActionCOACH, is thrilled to see new ways of financing. ...

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Start-up support programme is launched
Sunday Business Post
The successful companies will also have the opportunity to build venture capital relationships with BKPartners and Garage Technology Ventures. ''Our team believe in a 'sleeves-up' mentality and will tackle all problems encountered in a start-up," said ...

Bad loans haunt China's banks
Asia Times Online
The answer lies in the increase in lending that took place in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis. This occurred, according to Charlie Awdry, the manager of Gartmore's China Opportunities fund in London, because the Chinese authorities ...

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MiamiHerald.com
Cash isn't the only kind of valuable investment
MiamiHerald.com
If you share your vision with a successful entrepreneur, he may think of many ways to support your endeavor without risking his brand. This could be anything, maybe offering a start-up an unused office, sharing a mailing list, ...

The National
Checklist small businesses in the Gulf can bank on
The National
One place to start is Global Finance's ranking of The World's 50 Safest Banks - NBAD has made the cut for the past two years. 2. Does the bank have a business division focused on lending to SMEs? What percentage of the bank's business is geared to this ...

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QFC Regulatory Authority issues proposals to develop captive insurance sector
American Chronicle
(7) of Qatar and has been open for business since 1 May 2005. A 'captive' is an insurance business created or owned by an industrial, commercial or financial group, the purpose of which is to insure risks emanating from its parent company or group. ...

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Central Pacific Financial Corp. Announces Commencement of $20 Million Common ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Shareholders who owned common shares of the Company at the close of business on February 17, 2011 (the "Record Date") will receive at no charge a transferable right to purchase newly-issued common shares in the Rights Offering. ...

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Auto Sales Site May Rev Up Infomercials
Los Angeles Business Journal
Painter and analysts anticipate the ad campaign is the key to turning the local startup into a national brand. “Anytime you take a product to the masses your opportunity to be successful is greater,” said Expert Marketing's Manfe. ...

Why businesses need cloud
Times of India
The entrepreneur can focus on his/her business idea and make it come true. To paraphrase the masterful Henry Higgin, 'The Germans can be left to do their German, the Greeks to do their Greek' . Take the case of Bangalore-based startup Metamorph ...

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