ArabianBusiness.com
Dubai developer unveils financial plans targeted at SMEs
ArabianBusiness.com
We're taking care of their financing needs and with lending being tight, they have the option of lending [from us], he told Arabian Business. “We're an SME and property development is our core business. We have a long term vision for Dubai and believe ...

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Unitech to invest Rs 2000 cr in affordable housing projects
Business Standard (blog)
Another 22 per cent said they would merge their business with others, and 7 per cent said they were looking at a trade sale. The survey said mid-sized business owners in India generally relied on loans of less than five years' maturity as their ...

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Hong Kong to hold world's first yuan IPO outside China with shares in real ...
Washington Post
Hong Kong banks started handling yuan in 2004 and now offer services ranging from deposits to credit cards to trade financing that allows foreign companies to pay Chinese business partners in yuan. Beijing began allowing foreign companies to issue yuan ...

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Financial classes provide benefits
Statesman Journal
It can take time for a new business to develop a cash flow, so making sure your personal finances are in order before launching your new business, is essential." Bankers want to see that your personal financial situation is strong to determine the ...

Transparency a challenge as Iowa aims for innovation
DesMoinesRegister.com
Working with the state, businesses can access lower-cost financing through the industrial bonds. The money passes through the state, but the business repays the debt. The fees created an average of $153000 annually over the past three fiscal years, ...
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GOBA uses online tools to unite people
The Tennessean
JOHN PARTIPILO / THE TENNESSEAN Too much social media isolates people, says John Dayani, co-founder and CEO of Nashville-based startup GOBA, which stands for Get Out Be Active. "We're all staring at a screen," the entrepreneur said. So, a year ago, ...

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Students lobby in Washington for micro-loan program funding
Hartford Business
The professor said the CTCIC and other micro-financing groups involved in the SBA program need to become better organized politically to stave off more funding cuts to the micro-loan program. “They need to partner with other micro-financing ...

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Franchisor sees fertile ground, seeks to expand its turf in CT
Hartford Business
To attract investors, Lawn Doctor made its franchise system more affordable by offering incentives and in-house financing. Minority and veteran business owners receive half off the $25000 franchise fee and qualified start-ups are eligible to borrow 50 ...

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Ask SCORE: Cash flow a key to starting a business
Bellingham Herald
If it's any consolation, realize that millions of successful businesses started out exactly this way. In the current economic climate, many people are forced to make their own jobs. There's even a new term for this condition: "entrepreneur by necessity ...

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Business calendar
Pensacola News Journal
"Starting a Business": 9 am to noon April 19, Small Business Development Center at the University of West Florida, 401 E. Chase St., Suite 100. Learn about taxation, financing, insurance and legal forms of business. Attendance fee is $35 for the public ...

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Shriram Transport Fin eyes Rs 21K-cr disbursals, 20% growth
Economic Times
The company also hopes to become a market leader in the equipment finance business in the next two-three years as a strong growth in infrastructure activity is expected to boost demand in the segment. "Our equipment finance business is doing well and ...

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Billionaire Mark Cuban still likes a good deal
My West Texas
The 52-year-old entrepreneur is better known for selling his Internet streaming startup, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1999. He's also the owner of the Landmark Theater chain and HDNet, a TV network programmed exclusively in high definition ...

Shriram Transport Finance eyes Rs 21K-cr disbursals, 20% growth
Economic Times
The company also hopes to become a market leader in the equipment finance business in the next two-three years as a strong growth in infrastructure activity is expected to boost demand in the segment. "Our equipment finance business is doing well and ...

Reinventing the Way We Teach Engineers
Inc.com
In creating a start-up school of engineering, Olin's Richard Miller first asked, "Can entrepreneurial thinking be taught?" By Joseph Rosenbloom | Richard Miller has had one of the toughest jobs in higher education. The Olin Foundation tapped him a ...

Myth: Startup success is all about the idea
The Business Insider
People usually say “I would do a startup but I can't think of a good idea.” Ideas, in my view, are the easy part. With all due respect to Lewis Carroll, the 6 impossible things before breakfast can be seen as the entrepreneur ethos: an impossible thing ...

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Chase hopes to reinstate debit-card rewards plan
Arizona Republic
People using debit cards usually receive small rebates each time they swipe their cards, with banks financing these benefits by charging fees to merchants. Yet the Durbin Amendment to last year's financial-reform bill could change the equation, ...

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RI agency finding ways to create and retain jobs
Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE — Presidents of successful Rhode Island companies, a top labor leader, entrepreneurs, a developer and a university president gathered Saturday morning to figure out how Rhode Island can do better at creating jobs, ...

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Latest North Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment...
KXNet.com
North Dakota senators on Friday approved a plan that includes $75 million in start-up financing. Fessenden Sen. Jerry Klein said the money would be borrowed from a state oil tax fund. The pipeline network would supply water to Burke, Divide, McKenzie, ...

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Tech-entrepreneurs make it big
Deccan Chronicle
India has just about 2000-3000 serious entrepreneurs but about 100000 aspiring ones inside large companies. “It is my endeavour to inspire these folks to venture out of their cabins and be on their own,” said Ms Mitra, who ran about three start-up ...

Even angels fear to tread
Minneapolis Star Tribune
In Minnesota, this inactivity comes alongside a sharp drop in funding from venture capital firms, another common source of start-up dollars. The result is a dilemma for entrepreneurs, who have fewer places to turn for funding. ...

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