Strategies for entrepreneurs are found online

Published: Monday, November 17, 2008
In a previous column we gave you recommendations for books and online Web sites we especially liked as resources for launching or growing your entrepreneurial business ventures.
In this column, we've accumulated some additional online resources for that purpose or to assist you during these difficult economic times.
New York Times Online -- Small Business Section: www.nytimes.com/pages/business/smallbusiness.
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Making profit from the world’s poor

December 29, 2008:
The world of high finance is beginning to take an interest in the lives of those at the bottom of the economic heap.
Microfinance — making tiny loans to the poor — is increasingly viewed as an investment opportunity and not just a way to fight poverty.
“Its potential as an asset class is colossal,” says Jack Lowe, a former businessman, who now works for Blue Orchard, a Geneva-based company that manages Read the rest of this entry »

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LEVEL(5 )Announces New Market Analysis System for Financial …

Headquartered in Atlanta, LEVEL(5) is a consulting and
facilities development firm that works exclusively with financial
institutions across the United States. The company assists institutions
develop and implement growth strategies through unique services that
include strategic consulting, real estate, integrated design,
construction management and branding. The company ranked 51st on
the 2008
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TABLE-Revisions to building permits-Commerce Dept

Dec 23 (Reuters) - The Commerce Department on Tuesday
revised U.S. building permit data issued on Dec. 16.
The data are seasonally adjusted annual rates, in 1,000s:
PCT CHANGE: Nov (Prev) Oct (Prev) Nov08/07 (Prev)
Permits -15.8 -15.6 -9.3 -9.3 -48.2 -48.1
RATES Nov (Prev) Oct (Prev) Nov'07 (Prev)
Permits 615 616 730 730 1,187 1,187
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Scandinavian Broadcast Services Saves Time and Money with Signiant

Thorsten Prohm, technical director of SBS UK, said, "Initially
we simply wanted a digital transfer system to move files between two of
our stations in Denmark and Sweden which would have saved us over GBP100,000
a year. However, the more we discovered about the Signiant system it was
clear that we could save a significant amount of money and time by
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Financial Market Crisis: What to Do With Your Money

NEW YORK -- There seems to be a wide range of reaction to what's happening in the financial sector. Lehman and Merrill Lynch are making headlines, AIG is too, and this is in a time where the U.S. economy has lacked stability for months.
But experts are quick to point out that there's a distinct difference between the U.S. economy's problems and those in a specific sector.
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writes. "The economy is not the problem; lousy lending standards and Read the rest of this entry »

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IRA investing: get on the bull ride!

A little worried about your retirement account? You have investment choices you're financial planner can't sell you, so they won't tell you about those options. One of these options is putting precious metals (gold & silver coins) in your IRA.
In investing you need to look at objective FACTS.
The Trend is You're Friend.
As a general rule bull and bear markets usually continue in one direction for 20 years. For example, the stock market did great Read the rest of this entry »

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EBay trimming jobs, buying companies to shore up business in …

Against the backdrop of an ailing economy, Internet auction house and retailer EBay said today it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or about 1,000 employees and several hundred temporary workers, in an effort to shore up its businesses.
it plans to spend about $1.3 billion on acquisitions to pump up its online payment and classified advertising businesses as it tries to brace itself for the spreading financial crisis.
Shares fell as much Read the rest of this entry »

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Freescale Enables Complexity Management and Minimizes System …

In the typical design environment, each domain (sensors, wiring
harnesses, communications busses, electronic control units, actuators,
etc.) operates semi-autonomously, and thus a change in the architectural
design of a component in one domain typically required time-consuming
manual coordination between engineers of different domains. The VA Tool
Suite was developed to address these common EE design issues Read the rest of this entry »

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Heritage Oaks Bancorp Reports Third Quarter Profits; Sets Aside …

* Net income was $534,000, or $0.07 per diluted share.
* Net interest income increased 30% to $9.5 million compared to the
third quarter a year ago.
* Net interest margin was 5.18%.
* Added $3.2 million to the Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses
(ALLL).
* Remains well capitalized with total Risk-Based capital of 10.92%.
* Nine loans totaling $10.2 million to three borrowers all
representing single family spec construction loans Read the rest of this entry »

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