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Investors in your business - are they the best solution for your funding problems?
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| You've got your business; you now need the money to fund its startup or expansion. Where do you go to and what are the expectations you must meet? Have you thought of using investors? We'll show you what to expect and the best way to make them interested in you. |
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Entrepreneurs – Looking For Investors In Your Business – Here’s Where To Find Them
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| You’ve got the great business idea, you are all set to start your new business – all you need now is some finance. So where do you find those elusive investors – or better still some no strings money? |
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Small Business Fuels the Economy
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| On a global basis the news continues to be gloom and doom on the economic front. Major corporations around the world continue to downsize or right-size as they attempt to move towards profitability. Jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Along with the jobs go the economic benefits of full employment. There is, however, a brighter side to this economic picture. This can be found in the area of small business. |
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SBA\'s Role
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| The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent Agency of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. It is charged with the responsibility of providing four primary areas of assistance to American Small Business. These are: Advocacy, Management, Procurement, and Financial Assistance. Financial Assistance is delivered primarily through SBA’s Investment programs, Business Loan Programs, Disaster Loan Programs, and Bonding for Contractors. |
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Export Express
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| SBA Export Express combines the SBA’s small business lending assistance with its technical assistance programs to help small businesses that have traditionally had difficulty in obtaining adequate export financing. The pilot program is available throughout the country and is expected to run through September 30, 2005. |
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SBAs 8a Program Can Help Some Companies Compete
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| The 8(a) Program (named after the section of the Small Business Act from which it comes) is an SBA program created to help small disadvantaged businesses better compete in the U.S. marketplace and within the arena of government procurement. The SBA provides business development, technical assistance and other services to the small businesses that are accepted into the 8(a) program. |
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Sustaining Your Business through Self Leadership
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| We must rely on Self Governance when it comes to business sustainability and when the desired results are achieved go ahead and tell the world that success came without government regulation or assistance. |
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Change starts with you
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| “Only Government can fix the mess we are in”, President Obama.
“Government is the problem…”, Nate McCulloch Gwinnett Daily Post
We speak of government as if it were our neighbor, pastor, teacher, friend or foe. It is none of these and yet it is all of these. Government, at any level, is simply an organizational structure and is incapable of any action or activity until people are inserted into the equation. Our founding fathers meant it when they said “of the people, by the people and for the people”
So the problem and/or solution lie with us.
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How Can I Win Government Contracts? Part 1
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| I know the government has specific initiatives to recruit and hire small business contractors for governmental projects but how can I get these jobs? I started my search on this topic at the source, the government. On the SBA website there are tutorials on how to apply for and win government contracts. By taking one of these convenient online courses all of my questions were answered. I want to share some of this information but I would also recommend that anyone interested in acquiring government contracts take this online course themselves. |
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How Can I Win Government Contracts? Part 2
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| I know the government has specific initiatives to recruit and hire small business contractors for governmental projects but how can I get these jobs? I started my search on this topic at the source, the government. On the SBA website there are tutorials on how to apply for and win government contracts. By taking one of these convenient online courses all of my questions were answered. I want to share some of this information but I would also recommend that anyone interested in acquiring government contracts take this online course themselves. |
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Will New Laws Make Debt Management a Safer Option for Consumers in Debt?
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| With the economy showing little if any signs of improvement, more and more consumers find themselves deeper and deeper in debt. As the bills pile up and payments are missed people look to any means available to climb out of the hole. Once a certain point has been reached, this usually can not be done with out some sort of structured assistance. New government legislature restricting the practices of debt settlement companies may this a safer option for many of those struggling with mounting debt. |
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If Business Ran Like the Government
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| The big news these days is the federal government’s debt ceiling. Every time Washington gets into one of these messes - which it does a lot - people renew the discussion about how government should be run. “If I ran my company the way they run the government…” The outcome is usually bankruptcy or prison. Should government be run like a business? That’s a debate for another article. But, the surprising thing is many business ARE run like the government. Do you understand how to manage cash flow in your business? Does your company cater to special interests, waste money or time or push problems aside instead of addressing the real issue? |
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Renewing Limited Government: Term Limits
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| In America, the "land of the free," the government has run amok. The Founders, who fought (and in some cases, died) to leave a country wherein citizens were to rule and the government was supposed to be limited, would be shocked at the size of the behemoth that is the modern federal government. And many states have just as bloated a bureaucracy.... |
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