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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Paterson advises that if the exit strategy is acquired by a competitor, certain aspects of the company, like corporate finances and internal controls, are more important than if the goal was to take the company public. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. billion.”

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Worsening Access To Finance For UK Small Business

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Worsening Access To Finance For UK Small Business by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 16, 2009 Following on from my interview on CNBC, I came under fire with some criticism for suggesting the banks and the government is failing small business with access to affordable finance. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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SEO Tips That the Experts Don't Always Tell You!

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Leverage Social Bookmarking – Google trusts sites more if visitors bookmark them. Keep Google in the loop – consider sending Google an XML sitemap which shows your site’s coding each time you make an update. So many leave these tags blank, but Google indexes them and rewards pages on which a search term appears more often.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 209/11/24

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One small business financing alternative is the private lender. Flaherty wants code of conduct for credit, debit cards : Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is proposing a voluntary code of conduct for credit- and debit-card companies that could mean savings for consumers and small businesses. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

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RBI draws flank from panel : The carte blanche given to private and foreign banks by the Reserve Bank of India to charge interest rates on credit cards at their whims and fancy has come in for severe criticism by the parliamentary standing committee on finance. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Christmas – Small Business Quote of the Week

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50 meter (150 feet) insect found. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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As you can see on Google Earth , their is a problem in Germany. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Tags: Google « WinWeb, SaaS and the Environment. 50 meter (150 feet) insect found.

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