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Eight Accounting Tips For The Aspiring Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Part of the path to building healthy balance sheets is excellent organisation, keeping track of your financial paperwork key to avoiding accountancy aggravation. With this in mind try to establish an organised system, filing away every facet of your business finances separately.

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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

Up and Running

Those ads are tempting for small business owners—it’s hard to resist the ten largest banks because they control over $10.1 After seeing the ads for weeks on TV, you apply for a small business loan. The odds of a startup getting a loan from the largest banks in America aren’t favorable. You know their jingle.

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Assessing The State Of And Options For Your Business During COVID-19 Fallout

YoungUpstarts

While these phrases are ingrained in the current-day vernacular of America hit hard by COVID-19, basic tenets of commercial law are still very much in place. Business owners and creditors should be proactive and arm themselves for the economic threats that are to come. Small Business” Subchapter V of Chapter 11.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then I did a brief stint at AutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And we launched Message From America with Sony, where you could come in and tape a DVD and send it to your soldier or sailor or marine that was being deployed. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. Have you always dreamed of being your own boss? You just want to check her out.

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

What’s less intuitive, however, is that the biggest winners of the past six months, in terms of new accounts opened, have been megabanks like Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. But the resulting shift is correcting long-standing issues in small business lending around distribution and risk selection.

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