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| Vendors Can Help With Small Business Financing
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| Friday, February 19,2010 06:52 AM |
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Strong relationships are vital in landing financing. That's why some small business owners have found luck with a group they already know well—their vendors.Negotiating with vendors to secure better trade terms isn't new. But research indicates t......
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| Entrepreneurs Weigh Credit-Card Options
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| Tuesday, February 16,2010 05:09 AM |
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Small-business owners who rely on their company's credit card to purchase big-ticket items or finance day-to-day operations won't see any benefits from this month's federal credit-card reform—unless they put those expenses on a personal card. Th......
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| The Promise - and Peril - of Using Credit Cards to Finance a Small Business
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| Thursday, February 11,2010 04:48 AM |
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The gift boutique that Donna Bollinger opened here in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in November 2008 is her first entrepreneurial effort, already profitable—and financed on plastic."Credit cards made this possible," says Ms. Bollinger, w......
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| Obama pitches aid for struggling small businesses
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| Tuesday, February 02,2010 11:01 PM |
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Obama's message of the day was a proposal highlighted in his State of the Union address last week: funneling $30 billion to local banks so they can lend small businesses money they need to grow their enterprises and create jobs.He toured a business ......
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| Small Business Confidence Jumps in January
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| Tuesday, February 02,2010 07:15 AM |
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America's small business owners expressed higher economic hopes in January, largely due to increased expectations that conditions for their own businesses would improve in the next six months, according to the Discover Small Business Watch. The Watc......
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| Small Businesses Who Hire New Employees May See Tax Credits
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| Wednesday, January 27,2010 05:15 AM |
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Obama's Jobs Tax Credit: Will It Succeed In Boosting Small Business, Creating Jobs?WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's push to create jobs includes a new tax credit for small businesses that add employees, an idea that fell flat in Congress las......
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| US Small-Business Optimism Deteriorates Further
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| Thursday, January 14,2010 04:51 AM |
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Small-business owners grew even more pessimistic in the final month of 2009, capping off what was a trying year for their businesses.The Small Business Optimism Index decreased 0.3 point to 88.0 last month from November, reported the National Federat......
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| US Chamber of Commerce Attacks House Financial Bill
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| Thursday, December 10,2009 05:54 AM |
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The TV ad shows a man getting out of bed in the dark of night,
sleepless and clearly troubled. What has him so worried? Congress is
working on a bill that would hurt small businesses by drying up the
credit available to them, the narrator explai......
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| Personal Credit May Now Be the Answer for New Startups
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| Thursday, November 05,2009 06:45 AM |
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Despite all the talk of venture capital, angel investors, business loans and the like, the fact is about one-third of startup funding comes from credit cards. Plastic is the most popular source of outside financing to get businesses off the ground.So......
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| Credit Vise Still Tightening on Small Businesses
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| Monday, November 02,2009 08:29 PM |
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Many small and midsize American businesses are still struggling to secure bank loans, impeding their expansion plans and constraining overall economic growth, even as the country tentatively rises from its recessionary depths.Most banks expect their ......
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