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A number of recent studies from Thomson Reuters, PayNet and the National Venture Capital Association, among others, have found borrowing among small businesses to be up in recent months.
That includes venture capital, angel investment and bank lending and suggests that, along with gains in employment statistics, the economy is beginning to recover.
Online media giant AOL has bought the news blogging service the Huffington Post for a reported $315 million, according to a statement released early Monday morning by HuffPost founder, entrepreneur and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington.
This week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a crowd at a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp forum in Arlington, Virginia, that he expects banks to acquire more capital in 2011 – a trend that will, in turn, improve lending to small businesses.
When the time comes, selling a business is really about a series of decisions.
How much is the business worth? How do you go about valuating the business? What type of organization might be interested in buying or at least investing in the company? How should one go about finding such prospects? (more…)
First for yourself, then, for the many people around you
who may be on a short fuse due to life’s pressures.
Reread Marianne Williamson’s quote “Who are you not to be brilliant...”
Dig a bit deeper and reach a little higher in all of your encounters.
Release any negative energy, take a deep breath, and let it out.
Clean up your space – get rid of anything not used or not usable; make room for the new.
(2nd Law of Physics: Two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time.)
Review: Desiderata
Wholesale energy generators in New England are protesting the proposed merger between NU and NSTAR – the two largest energy providers in New England. On Wednesday, wholesalers filed an intervention in Massachusetts to review NU's planned $4.2 billion acquisition of NSTAR.
On Tuesday, Dell announced the acquisition of SecureWorks, an 11-year-old, Atlanta, Georgia-based company that focuses on internet security, according to eWeek. The move was recognized as a two-pronged move by Dell as it seeks to increase its security networks for cloud computing while remaining in strong competition with Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
Recent figures show the economy headed in the right direction, but small business owners are still struggling in a number of areas, including existing purchasing power and the acquisition of credit and other lending necessities, according to Bloomberg.
A significant portion of small business buying power is employee growth.
When an individual or various business entity is considering buying another company, it is important to remain level-headed, fair and respectful. That being said, everyone involved is still trying to get the best deal possible from the transaction, and good deals do not always line up when competing interests are at stake.
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