Goldman Sachs Analyst Michael Lapides sent his initial analysis of the situation to investors.

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The owner of Baltimore-based It Works Learning Center, trainer of nursing assistants, Lapides is also the head of sales, operations and recruiting.

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Recently, Lapides came across a new ad-supported Web site, called MyBizHomepage.com, that can answer most of his most important questions, even at daybreak.

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Lapides, who has been testing MyBizHomepage.com for about a month, used to hawk his cash account by hounding his bookkeeper with phone calls.

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While QuickBooks can track all that stuff (and then some), Lapides figures he can save entrepreneurs time by putting the most critical information right at their fingertips.

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According to noted vintage poster dealer Jim Lapides, president of International Poster Gallery in Boston, pre-World War II travel posters are the most highly sought after, with posters dating to the post-war era quickly catching up in price.

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Morton Lapides is stretched thin.

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In testing for six months and launching formally on Oct. 10, MyBizHomepage.com aims to give busy entrepreneurs like Lapides an easy-to-grasp financial snapshot, rendered in bite-sized charts and graphs that are as immediately intuitive as, say, the speed and fuel dials on a car.

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