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Dominican Central Bank Reports 29% Growth In Remittances

YoungUpstarts

annually since 1993. million between 1993 and 2020. Operational challenges faced by remittance service providers led to an increase in the cost of transferring remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean. They benefit from the improved access to finance and financial services. Before COVID-19.

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Cash Flow Matters: Accounts Receivable Financing Fuels New Model Of Working Capital

YoungUpstarts

It’s this battle to control the stop and go nature of start-up cash flow that is driving growth in accounts receivable financing, also known as factoring. Just ask any business owner with payroll and operating expenses, who regularly loses sleep wondering if customer payments will come in as needed, on time, every time.

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30 Entrepreneurs and Business Owners Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Silvia Borges, Regional Rural Finance ! #5- As a one-woman operation with lower overhead, I can cater to this market yet deliver a premium service. 26- After an inability to transfer a job Photo Credit: Don Shields I started the business that became Geelong Insurance Brokers on the 10th of December 1993.

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An Interview with Steve Ligouri, Serial Innovator

Startup Lessons Learned

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. Because I’d made a name for myself as an innovative marketer in consumer financing, I was then recruited by GE, which still had a consumer finance brand at the time called GE Money. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at The Independent , May 16, 2006: As an economist, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and current World Bank presidential candidate brings something completely different and equally valuable to discussions of entrepreneurship than CEOs and investment bankers.

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7 Ways to Terrorize Your Competition

Growthink Blog

One of my favorite movie lines, which I think about often, comes from the 1993 movie Rudy. Learning the best new techniques in sales, marketing, operations, finance, HR, etc. Yet, this happens all the time in our businesses. We let competitors push us around. We let them steal our customers.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I began my career as an engineer and have always been committed to solving problems and running smooth business operations. It took a while but after days of brainstorming, Financer became our brand, and years later we’re still very happy with the decision. The acronym “RTG” in RTG Solutions Group stands for “Return to Green.”

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