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Can Your Business Benefit From the Stimulus Bill?

Icon Written by admin on May 15, 2009 – 11:24 am

Friday, May 08, 2009
Stimulate Your Business
Written by Jennifer Wang
Entrepreneur.com
 
There’s $787 billion in the economic stimulus pot, but it can’t help you if you don’t know how or where to get it. Data on stimulus money is publicly available, but pinpointing what’s relevant to your business is a daunting task: $400 billion-plus is being distributed [...]



SBA makes more businesses eligible for loans

Icon Written by admin on May 1, 2009 – 6:41 pm

Friday, May 1, 2009, 2:40pm CDT
San Antonio Business Journal – by Kent Hoover

More than 70,000 additional businesses, including auto dealers, will be eligible for Small Business Administration loans thanks to a temporary change in the size standards for the agency’s 7(a) loan program.
The SBA will adopt an alternate size standard for 7(a) loans that will [...]

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Striking Out on Your Own – Is Now a Good Time to Start a Company?

Icon Written by admin on March 19, 2009 – 3:23 pm

Is now a good time to start a company? Absolutely, says Lynda Resnick, the founder of Fiji Water and POM Wonderful.  From:   http://www.newsweek.com/id/190063

Striking Out On Your Own
Is now a good time to start a company? Absolutely, says Lynda Resnick, the founder of Fiji Water and POM Wonderful.
Nick Summers
Newsweek Web Exclusive
When Lynda Resnick brings her own [...]



Are you born an entrepreneur or do you become one?

Icon Written by admin on March 9, 2009 – 10:32 pm

JJ Ramberg anchors “Your Business” MSNBC’s weekly show on small business, broadcast on Sundays at 7:30 A.M. ET.  
Last Thursday, she posed the question: “What does it take to be an entrepreneur?”  (information can be found at: http://yourbiz.msnbc.msn.com). The answers posted to the site have been fascinating and informative:
My father was an entrepreneur with multiple unrelated businesses. [...]



Free Software that Saves Trees

Icon Written by admin on March 1, 2009 – 7:39 pm

I discovered something really cool today – free software that saves you paper, money, and trees!  I downloaded it and couldn’t be happier with the results.  How many times have you wanted to print out a 1 page e-mail or a map from the internet and ended up with 4 pages full of irrelevant data [...]



Attend Educational Sessions and Network for Free – March 3 – 5

Icon Written by admin on February 26, 2009 – 9:52 pm

Don’t Miss This Opportunity!
About RISE ’09 – From their website,  www.RiseAustin.org :
There is no better place on earth than Austin, Texas for an entrepreneur to gather the tools they need for success. As a unique intersection of the academic, public and private sectors, our city has proven itself to be an environment for entrepreneurs to [...]