Start-ups – If Your Goal is Investment Or Acquisition by a Big Company You Are Patenting Wrong
Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Business Financial, Business Enterprises, Business Loans, Business Networking, Business plan, Entrepreneurs, International Business Plan, International Company, International Investors, Investors | Comments Off
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Do you treat your patents as a fence or a tollbooth? If you wish for your start-up technology company to obtain investment from or acquisition by a bigger player, you had better understand the difference.
Most start-up technology company entrepreneurs and CEO’s understand that patents can be key to establishing the value [...]
Differentiating Between Recession and Expansion Using Income Levels Approach
Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Business Financial, Business Enterprises, Business Loans, Entrepreneurs, Private Equity, Small Business Bookkeeping, Venture Capital | Comments Off
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Recession is often defined as a state of the economy when the gross domestic product is very low. There is a need for income earners to be able to tell the difference between recession and expansion by watching the levels of their personal incomes. Some widely-embraced market indicators are very deceiving.
Sometimes you [...]
How Venture Leasing Added Millions To A Startup’s Equity Value
Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Business Financial, Business Enterprises, Business Loans, Business Networking | Comments Off
photo credit: Kenn!Craig Berman beamed noticeably after completing his board presentation. Berman, CEO of a startup that develops nanotechnology applications for the defense industry, had just closed a $ 20 million equity round. Berman finalized the round at an equity valuation that made the whole board blush. Only six months earlier, Berman’s team faced [...]
Read More..>>Will The Sub-Prime Debacle Derail Venture Lending?
Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Business Financial, Business Enterprises, Business Loans, Venture Capital | Comments Off
photo credit: liqueneThe unraveling sub-prime mortgage market has spewed its wreckage across a vast cross section of the financial markets. Investors and lenders continue to smart from massive losses on investments and loans tied to this market. As some scramble to assess the implications of the sub-prime meltdown, many investors and lenders have either [...]
Read More..>>A Beginners Guide to International Business
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Business Enterprises, Entrepreneurs | Comments Off
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International Business is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United Kingdom alone and international trade is increasing by the year. If you think your future lies in the international trade industry, here are some tips to help you establish your own international business successfully.
The first step towards doing international business is [...]
The Global Credit Crisis – Time For Business to Revisit Budgets and Cash Flow Projections
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Business Enterprises, Entrepreneurs | Comments Off
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Today’s credit crisis is the worst disruption to the global financial system in the lifetime of almost everyone alive today. This is truly ground-breaking stuff, and no one can be at all sure where it will end.
The fact that governments around the world have been forced to take the extraordinary step of [...]
Small Business Bookkeeping Is A Good Way To Maintain Records
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Business Enterprises, Small Business Bookkeeping | Comments Off
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Running a business is not a child’s play. Moreover, managing small business bookkeeping is again a Herculean task. We all are very well aware of the fact that managing and maintaining financial records consume lots of time and personnel resources. Hence, there is one solution that can solve a problem of bookkeeping [...]
How to Finance Your Business Through Factoring Receivables Invoices
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Business Enterprises, Entrepreneurs | Comments Off
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Maintaining consistent cash flow is one of the biggest challenges faced by small and medium scale business enterprises today. The cash flow constraints particularly occur in businesses that offer credit facilities. According to cash flow management experts many debtors have a tendency of failing to honor their pledges to clear their debts [...]
