Archive for Finance
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Intuit Makes Mobile Credit Card Acceptance Easier
In all the years I have followed IntuitTM, I have never seen a clunker product. Recently Intuit and a hardware partner introduced an iPhoneTM application/hardware combination that allows easy credit card swiping and processing anywhere the iPhone works.[full post] ...
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Federal Government Spent More with SMB in 2009
According to a study performed by the SBA, the U.S. government significantly increased the amount of purchasing it made with small business owners in 2009 across 5 classes of small business.[Full Post] ...
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If HP is Headless, Then Is Dell Brainless? Acquisition Lessons for a Startup
We can’t take credit for asking that provocative question which references the battle for 3Par –but it leads us to the following question: What can a startup learn from this battle of the titans? The lesson is simple: know your positioning in the value chain of your market niche, in order to ...
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Guaranteed Sales, Contingent Sales Present Financing Challenges
Small businesses often get very excited when they are “accepted” to sell their products on QVC or similar shopping network; they see an immediate opportunity to sell potentially thousands of units in a very short time frame. Equally when a small manufacturer or distributor lands Wal-Mart, they b...
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Will the U.S. Senate Vote to Repeal New 1099 Requirement?
Among the most onerous provisions of the recent health care legislation is a provision to require businesses to issue 1099s any business they spend over 0 with. The provision has nothing to do with healthcare and was tagged on at the 11th hour of negotiations as a way to increase revenue for the fed...
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The Latest on SBA Loans — Going From Bad to Worse
Most SBA lenders are putting off borrowers until Congress decides to act. [Full Post] ...
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The Latest on SBA Loans – From Bad to Worse
One of the more valuable pieces to President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 was enhancements to the SBA’s main lending program the 7a loan program. Now it seems as congress has forgotten it.[Full Post} ...
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Rethinking Competitive and Complementary Positioning
Who knew that 3Par was such a hot commodity? Not anyone on Wall Street or the IT research group community. One week Dell is bidding $1.13 billion for a company valued on the NYSE for $605 mm, and the next week, HP is bidding $1.5 billion for the same company. Everyone is still surprised since...
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Top 3 signs you should fire a client
I’m a born salesman and it is completely and totally 100% against my DNA to even utter the words “fire a client”, but after years of being in the finance business and fighting the tide it has finally dawned on me that not all clients are profitable for your business. We understand how ha...
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The Story of One Underemployed Worker in America
Across the nation there are possibly millions of workers who have taken jobs they were overqualified for in order to partially close the gap between full unemployment and no employment. There are multiple effects on our economy when a highly qualified person accepts a position making slightly more t...
