Pam Marrone has attracted $570,000 for Marrone Organic Innovations from angel investors she feels she knows well. Her selectiveness is based on her prior experience at AgraQuest, a pest-control start-up funded with $50 million from venture capitalists and other investors. At AgraQuest, Marrone had a falling out with her investors over business strategy, and subsequently […]
The percentage of listings at BusinessesforSale.com posted by owners has doubled to about 10% over the last five years, CEO Marcus Markou told BusinessWeek SmallBiz, according to an article in the Fall 2006 issue. Robert Fliegel, owner of Discovery Treks posted a listing for his business in January and sold it to an Arizona couple […]
Women comprise about 40% of all small-business owners, but only 3% of all female entrepreneurs owned small companies with revenue over $1 million, compared to 6% of all male entrepreneurs, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. Fortunately, women entrepreneurs have more resources than ever before to reach out for funding, the 9/25/06 “Wall […]
According to BusinessWeek SmallBiz’s Summer 2006 edition, the Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox has indicated that he and other SEC commissioners would rather make Sarbanes Oxley provisions work more efficiently, rather than exempting small businesses, according to an SEC spokesman. Prior to this May 17th decision, on April 23rd, a 21-person Advisory Committee […]
Vivek Wadhwa tells “Business Week Online” fifteen things you need to know before you go for VC funding. The list includes ten things you need to have in place, and five insights about how VC’s conduct their due diligence on your business. This article is truly a must-read for anyone thinking about seeking out VC […]
Q1. Ignoring capital gains as an alternative, the tax law changes in 2003, (which lowered individual tax rates for dividend income to 15%) tend to encourage a: A. lower dividend policy. B. constant dividend policy. C. zero-dividend policy. D. higher dividend policy. E. restrictive dividend policy Q2. For a CFO of a company trying to […]
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