Raising Seed Capital for Your Business

by Peter Reed Raising seed capital is an important task for a businessman to master. If a businessmen does not take the time to master this then you can be sure that he will experience some set backs. It may some easy but this task takes a sharp mind and a keen sense for attention. Greenhorns are at risk of incurring the most problems with raising seed capital as it would most likely fall short or be over budgeted. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 23:59:58

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Small Business Money Terms

entrepreneurs raise at least part of the capital for start-up and operating expenses by asking friends and family and previous business colleagues to ... they will provide your business with the capital you desperately need. Though you might like to believe [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 19:48:44

The Rich Uncle Argument

Back at the beginning of the month, I recounted an odd incident from a Kaufman Foundation conference that I’d attended: ... of investment for most new businesses that would otherwise have trouble securing capital ... might not have the wherewithal to subsidize somebody’s business start-up.” I’m not going to dignify [more...]

Date: 2009-03-30 19:25:37

Purposeful Joint Lie by the Treasury, Fed, FDIC

A magic bailout of Citigroup and Bank of America is underway. Supposedly this bailout will not require any new capital ... to households and businesses. The government will ensure that banks have the capital and liquidity ... out insolvent banks no matter what it costs taxpayers. "We announced on February 10, 2009, a Capital [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 18:32:00

Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) Jobs in Kenya: Head of Finance

Ref: NSE/VAC-HOF/10/2009The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) plays a key role in the economy by raising capital for businesses, mobilizing savings for investment, redistributing wealth, improving corporate governance and creating investment opportunities for small investors.In line with its mission of providing a world class trading facility for wealth creation, the Exchange is seeking to recruit a qualified, dynamic, self- motivated and results- oriented individual to fill the position of Head of [more...]

Date: 2009-10-21 14:42:00

Is SBA Focused On the Wrong Small Businesses?

The Obama Administration yesterday unveiled its plan for helping struggling small businesses that included several measures to revive Small Business ... start-ups often have intellectual capital – meaning they rely on hiring a highly skilled workforce ... -based businesses (think engineering firms, software development, consultants or biotechnology [more...]

Date: 2009-03-17 12:44:06

Is SBA Focused On the Wrong Small Businesses?

The Obama Administration yesterday unveiled its plan for helping struggling small businesses that included several measures to revive Small Business ... start-ups often have intellectual capital – meaning they rely on hiring a highly skilled workforce ... -based businesses (think engineering firms, software development, consultants or biotechnology [more...]

Date: 2009-03-17 12:44:06

George Siguler says his private equity colleagues have a (very bad) thing or two coming to them

So I was sitting there at the Buyouts East private equity conference today, listening to a discussion on "Trudging Through the Credit Winter ... in the Reagan administration. He's got lots of experience with the venture capital business. He had big ... had reminded him of similar discussions at venture capital events in 2001. The VCs all talked about how [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 20:39:47

Who Wants to Play ‘Name That Industry’?

Should private equity get a new name? David M. Rubenstein of the Carlyle Groupreckons the leveraged buyout business should rename itself “change capital” or “value-added equity.” He has a point, Breakingviews says. Some private equity firms and funds are public themselves, and regulators may step up the public disclosures required from buyout firms. So “private equity” is no longer the best description of the industry. But other possible names may be closer to reality than the one Mr. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-14 08:18:25

Global Payments Jobs Opening

Business Assistant and Office Administrator (National Capital Reg - Manila) Responsibilities: Business Assistant duties: * To act as Personal Assistant to the Head of Sales and Head [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 05:45:07

Some Secrets to Raising Capital for your Business

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 at 12: ... extra working capital that can be used for marketing, purchasing of property, purchasing of another ... 25 pm   Raising capital is one of the most critical activities [more...]

Date: 2009-03-31 23:25:56

To Thank GE for Opening Its Books, Analysts Cut Profit Forecasts

After drinking data from a fire hose last Thursday, the investment community felt more intelligent and less fearful about the dangers within GE Capital’s enigmatic balance sheets. But they’re lowering their sights for General Electric’s big ... billion into its GE Capital business for each of the next three years, generated from cash flow [more...]

Date: 2009-03-24 19:30:24

Word can help you read between the lines

At the core of the venture capital business is an exceedingly difficult problem: how do you value a start-up company that has growth potential, ... to calculation, but in reality they are mostly smoke and mirrors - as we saw in the first internet boom ... could do the calculation: if 1.6% is worth $240m then 100% equals $15bn. QED? Er, no. Even in those [more...]

Date: 2009-02-15 00:01:00

Eximbank and China’s foreign trade (4)

Among all the business lines mentioned above, export financing constitutes the most important part of Exim- bank’s business ... also conducted interbank short-term capital financing. Its capital operations include inter-bank ... of association, besides its capital reserves, Eximbank raises credit capital through the issuance [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 05:43:59

10 Great IRA Terms To Know

A fantastic investment education piece by Bankrate featured today on Yahoo Finance on retirement terms ... , such as wages, interest, dividends and capital gains, minus things such as business expenses, contributions to a qualified IRA, moving expenses, alimony and capital losses, interest penalty on early withdrawal [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 18:00:17

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Date: 2009-10-08 20:24:03

Bids increase for Agriprocessors, but still may not be enough

Creditors of and potential bidders for the embattled Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville appear to be in a standoff ... Asset Holdings LLC, doing business as MetLife Ag Investments; $6 million would go to First Bank Business Capital, Inc.; and $2 million would go to buyout leases. Kosher Standards countered [more...]

Date: 2009-03-24 19:22:35

Thanks, But We Can Take Care of Ourselves

Every once in a while, someone leaves a snarky comment on this blog along the lines of “Well, have you ever started your own company? ... of “Silicon Valley,” meaning the venture capital-backed entrepreneurs, to start successful new ... to kill the creation of new public companies in the U.S., cripple the venture capital business [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 20:50:10

NEW LAW WOULD AUTHORIZE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF 4 MILLION SMALL BUSINESSES

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, H.R. 1409, S. 560) ... a year in wages and benefits--before the cost of any capital needed to do the job. A business ... businesses exemption. The Heritage Foundation used Census Bureau data to calculate how many small [more...]

Date: 2009-03-13 13:42:55

Time to Work on Value Drivers

In previous posts, we have discussed importance of value drivers: ... strategy. Effective financial controls. Stable and improving cash flow. In a strong Merger ... to use more of their own capital to buy businesses so they look for acquisitions that carry minimal [more...]

Date: 2009-04-02 17:35:52

J.P. Morgan Scores Investment-Banking (Rugby) Win in London

Vivek Ahuja , of Financial News, reports: Not content with trouncing most of its rivals in the league tables that rank investment banks by the volume of capital markets business handled, J.P. Morgan Chase flexed its muscle on the pitch to fend off more than a dozen challengers to retain its crown in the City Scrum touch rugby tournament [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 14:26:14

Structuring Licensing Programs and Agreements

Andrew J. Sherman is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Jones Day, with over 2,400 attorneys worldwide. Mr ... on business growth, capital formation and entrepreneurship for over twenty (22) years. Mr. Sherman ... and capital formation. His eighteenth (18th) book, Road Rules Be the Truck. Not the Squirrel. ( http [more...]

Date: 2009-04-03 08:30:39

April Fool's

Click Here to View Article in PDF Format Orlando Sentinel Central Florida Business April 6-12, 2009 Banking April Fool"s Small-business lender Mercantile Capital Corp. of Altamonte Springs shocked everyone last week ... hours after releasing the spoof, Mercantile Capital issued a 10-point retraction and apology. “ [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 20:06:11

August’s $10m swoop on auction site

Valley VC firm August Capital must have understood Swoopo’s business model straightaway - it’s much like its own ... and it’s also really fun if you play the game,” says Howard Hartenbaum, August Capital partner ... , was an original investor, but August has now become the biggest investor in dollar terms with Thursday’s new [more...]

Date: 2009-04-03 05:51:55

GE still offers value even after 64% rally

As with the rest of the market, GE’s stock has rallied significantly off its March closing low ($6.66, 3/5/09) ... tolerance of its traditional investor base - conservative, income oriented investors. GE’s stock, however ... from the GE Capital business ever again. The flip side of this argument is that there remains some risk [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 04:54:35

No bankruptcy sale plan emerges for Agriprocessors

Despite attempts to paint two days’ worth of discussions by potential bidders and creditors of the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant as “progress, ... that negotiations had stalled when creditor First Bank Business Capital of St. Louis refused to “come [more...]

Date: 2009-03-25 16:06:05

Is recycling worth it?

by Michael Smith The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of is one the fundamental backbones of eco-capitalism. ( ... Is Redefining Green Business ” and he is ever so right in this. The same could be said, to nearly [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 16:11:00

Spring Cleaning With... Sarma MeIngailis

Sarma Melngailis –- the brilliantly witty and sexy co-founder of Pure Food and Wine , CEO/founder of One Lucky Duck Holdings, LLC , ... Sterns, Sarma moved to her hometown of Boston to conquer Bain Capital Inc. by evaluating businesses for private equity investment. Desperately missing the sights and sounds of NYC, Sarma returned [more...]

Date: 2009-03-30 16:23:25

Mean Street: Do You Trust GE’s Jeff Immelt?

You’ve got to hand it to General Electric CEO, Jeff Immelt. The economy is crumbling. Investors hate his stock ... . Nobody can make sense of GE Capital — his biggest business. And GE’s sacrosanct Triple-A rating is at risk. meanstreet Everything and everybody is telling Immelt to cut the annual dividend [more...]

Date: 2009-01-26 17:36:46

Mean Street: Do You Trust GE’s Jeff Immelt?

You’ve got to hand it to General Electric CEO, Jeff Immelt. The economy is crumbling. Investors hate his stock ... . Nobody can make sense of GE Capital — his biggest business. And GE’s sacrosanct Triple-A rating is at risk. meanstreet Everything and everybody is telling Immelt to cut the annual dividend [more...]

Date: 2009-01-26 20:31:00

Never Too Late to be Too Early

I'm a bit late in writing about this, but my friend, Fred Wilson , wrote a post last week about investing in a company too early .  Certainly being way too early is a 'cardinal sin of the venture capital business', as Fred calls ... the value proposition in a market.  Or, combines a couple of adjacent markets together.  Note [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 18:49:21

Bank earnings show fragmented industry; those with capital, diversified businesses faring OK

Bank earnings depict industry of haves, have nots NEW YORK ? The earnings reports from Wells Fargo & Co., Morgan Stanley and a handful of regional banks show there’s a formula for prospering in a weak economy: a strong retail or investment banking operation and plenty of money on hand. Loan losses are rising across the industry [more...]

Date: 2009-10-21 22:34:40

Announcing TechCrunch50 2009

It’s that time of the year again. We are pleased to announce the opening of business for the third annual TechCrunch50 event, ... in the business. Sequoia Capital , Charles River Ventures and Perkins Coie all returned quickly [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 15:01:20

Marx in Scranton

“People will never go out of business.” -M. Scott Melville was probably the first great writer to use the workplace as the focal point in his ... , conducting a very risky business, funded by what we call today venture capital, with workers ... , the great capital of capitalism, was simply trying to glorify the workplace for the enjoyment [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 15:29:00

Red Mile CEO steps down, ex-pres takes top spot

In these trying economic times , we've spent more time than we'd like writing up story after story about layoffs and business ( ... founded and currently owns Tiger Paw Capital, a venture capital firm that invested $1 million [more...]

Date: 2009-04-05 18:30:00

Newcastle Elects to Retain Capital (Business Wire)

NEW YORK—-Newcastle Investment Corp. announced today that its Board of Directors has elected not to pay a common stock or preferred stock dividend in the first quarter of 2009. Consistent with its decision last quarter, the Company decided to retain capital for liquidity and for working capital purposes. [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 18:29:13

The Vision Requirement

In a time of big crisis, America needs leadership and vision.  We need something to believe in ... are standard GOP fare.  They’re also demonstrably wrong.  The reason why abolishing capital gains taxes makes ... to 15%, “cutting the business tax rate to 12.5 percent to match Ireland’s” and “abolishing capital [more...]

Date: 2009-04-01 02:50:58

Hey, Isn't That . . . ?

Sean Penn (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Sean Penn walking into Bistro Bis on Wednesday night, all in black and as usual sporting the best head of hair on two coasts. Later showed up at Capital Grille with a large business-like group. Playing Joe Wilson in "Fair Game," which filmed yesterday [more...]

Date: 2009-03-27 06:00:00

Advertise your business for under $25 effectlvely.

With so many people being forced into the world of entrepreneurial enterprise, here is some grass-roots advice from someone who has begun a few businesses with absolutely no start up capital at all.  First let’s take a look at the challenges most start ups and small businesses [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 18:44:01

New Chief of the SBA Says the Right Thing

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has a new head:  Karen Mills was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 2, 2009 ... be to:  help simplify government regulations and reduce growth-stifling bureaucracy, give positive ... to minimize taxes so that businesses can instead hire and make capital purchases,  make government [more...]

Date: 2009-04-04 18:16:44

Only Ten Years Too Early

I love the name of our friend and fellow VC Howard Morgan's blog, Way Too Early . It's the cardinal sin of the venture capital business and something we've all been guilty ... by our good friend Russ Pillar. We came up with a plan to build cheap internet appliance devices and partner [more...]

Date: 2009-04-02 13:07:41

Characteristics That Point Towards Entrepreneurship

photo credit: foundphotoslj Have you ever wondered if working under someone else is the right fit for you? ... at a time? You just may be built to be an entrepreneur rather than working for someone else. Below ... your capital. Thinking big. You constantly have new business ideas and are always sharing them [more...]

Date: 2009-04-03 20:00:18

@ IPTV World Forum: Online Video Start-Ups Can Still Thrive, VCs Say

The VC investment market hasn't quite dried up yet—at least, ... Forum on Thursday. Simon Cornwell, from Amadeus Capital Partners, and CEO of Ariadne Capital Julie ... and don't restrict business models geographically—she cited Skype as a good a example, a company [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 15:14:05

Cairns Council throws Taipans a life line

In a controversial decision, today the Cairns Regional Council has delivered a lifeline to the Cairns Taipans ... elite men's national basketball league, a minimum of $500,000 working capital is required, along ... that the business is being managed and report back to Council's Finance and Administration Committee [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 04:39:00

What’s so great about Britain? 3: The bicycle culture

London is a city made for cycling. There are few hills of any concequence, there are cycle paths everywhere and, thanks to the congestion charge which helped cut down on traffic clogging the heart of the capital ... There are bike shops everywhere, and business will no doubt remain robust, especially if the recession [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 14:29:31

TALF: ‘the great liquidation’ begins for hedge funds and shadow banks

An article in the Financial Times caught our eye that makes plain that the TALF (Term Asset Security Program) ... of the term asset-backed securities loan facility. Fortress is one of a handful of groups that retain ... of the bleeding has stopped in Fortress’ existing business. About 82 per cent of its capital is long [more...]

Date: 2009-03-17 15:09:34

The dragon roars again: Julie Meyer, chief executive of Ariadne Capital

In turbulent economic times, it's reassuring to know some things don't change. A decade after she co-founded dot.com networking group First Tuesday , Ariadne Capital chief executive Julie Meyer is enjoying ... business in episodes yet to be shown. The show sets an investment limit of £50,000 on each deal - small [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 09:37:39

Paragraphs to Ponder, by Arnold Kling

From John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, in an essay in Be the Solution , p ... world-view that came to dominate the consciousness of the age. Every business was seen as a type ... Revolution, capital was quite scarce. The ability of successful enterprises to accumulate profits [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 12:59:39

Bond sales drive capital markets

Corporate bond sales hit record levels in the first quarter, despite a bleak period for the capital markets and lending businesses of investment banks globally. Equity sales and syndicated loans saw their lowest global volumes since Q1 of 2003, while issuance [more...]

Date: 2009-03-30 03:47:09

Circuit City To Close Remaining Stores

Just two months after they announced the closure of selected locations around the country, ... in 567 U.S. stores before it goes out of business. Liquidators Great American Group WF LLC; Hudson Capital Partners LLC; SB Capital Group LLC; and Tiger Capital Group LLC won the right to handle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:37:00

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