The region continues to have the lowest business start-up rate in the country.
However, NTC was already a national organization with programs across the country, operating like a business start-up in growth mode.
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The Welsh government said thousands of jobs had been created through its schemes such as Jobs Growth Wales and its business start-up programme.
Yet the Palm has lost a lot of talent of late the latest departure, the division's chief executive, Robin Abrams, joined an e-business start-up called Chemdex on July 6th.
The article offers a simple, top-line summary of the initiative, noting practical ways it will make business start-up easier and more attractive, including cutting taxes on small businesses and making access to capital easier.
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So adding business-collaboration tools to Facebook would make sense. (Dustin Moskovitz, one of Facebook's co-founders, has just raised funding for a new business-collaboration start-up called Asana.) Some bosses regard social networking as the epitome of online time-wasting.
Therefore, a business freemium start-up may have lower fixed costs than a business software company that employs a big sales force.
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Finding the right partner, the one who can help bring awareness to your offering, who can lend credibility to your brand, and who can ultimately help you reach your target customers, should be a key focus for every small business and start-up.
When Todd McKinnon tried to get funding for his business-oriented tech start-up in 2009, he says many potential investors wouldn't even return his calls.
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Jobs was a multi-disciplinary business man, and start-up kind of guy, whose company hired a great designer in Ive.
The business minister Andrew Stunell is to bring together finance and start-up business experts to look at the barriers preventing black and ethnic minority groups from accessing loans.
He also went into some detail about his policy of not paying dividends to shareholders - a practice deemed normal by any other business that has moved beyond the start-up phase.
In some states, it is easier to form a technology start-up than it is to start a hair-braiding business.
My technology start-up business requires time spent doing necessary research and other relevant tasks.
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Billy Boyle's start-up business Owlstone makes gas sensors on a microchip which can detect anything from explosive to disease.
Start-up business ventures can be funded in numerous ways with the most common external funding method being money from savings accounts or retirement plans.
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Footfall is a Facebook game that has been designed to teach teenagers about running a small start-up business, encouraging entrepreneurial skills development and financial literacy.
Today your local bank might be interested in lending to a start-up business but tomorrow it will be less inclined because carrying that kind of loan increases its risk.
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VCs, they say, are in the business of fostering entrepreneurship with start-up money, while buyout firms acquire a company, trim out the fat, then dump it for a handsome profit.
Arsen Ari Kalfayan, who by day runs business development for cloud labor start-up CrowdFlower (formerly called Dolores Labs), co-founded a nonprofit called Reason To Party that throws affordable fundraiser parties for a variety of causes, from an AIDS hospice to the San Francisco Food Bank.
For example, it is unlikely that a start-up will succeed in taking on Wal-Mart (WMT) directly in the retailing business with an everyday low price strategy nor will a start-up office operating system maker make much headway against Microsoft (MSFT).
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Dr Gillespie cites evidence from the Small Business Survey carried out last year, showing 46% of new-start business owners were motivated to start up a business because they could see a market opportunity.
Not every business is this simple from a start-up perspective, though.
With his limited business experience, Mr McCambley needed start-up capital.
The organizer, Rentenna, is a start-up in the business of rating the city's rental buildings.
When a start-up opens for business on the first day, it could sell its product to anyone.
Think of Gates et al, leaving college to start-up a computer business.
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One of the first business challenges of being entrepreneurs with little start-up capital and momentum was convincing top designers to sell their current fashions at a discounted price.
Just outside the city centre, the co-founder of a business start up, Hivejobs, says that in his experience, traditional family employers are often reluctant to make room for highly qualified young knowledge workers.
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