Funding and Building your Business

Some professionals have worked at developing a model NDA which is non-threatening to the fund, in the sense that it can minimize the danger the disclosing company will, if disappointed, make a nuisance claim that its information has been misused by some other company in the fund’s portfolio.

This streamlined, paperless environment was part of Dr. Joel Montbriand’s vision when he started the practice in 1994. To accomplish his objective of high-quality care with more time devoted to patients than paperwork, he knew he needed not just innovative medical practices, but innovative business practices as well.

A mixture of foresight, creativity and adherence to good business practices can help a company mitigate the damage from a slowing of their sales or profits. Perhaps the most important thing owners can do is maintain good relationships with customers.

”In our industry, it takes someone coming out of college about two years to absorb everything,” says Loughry, managing partner for Integra Realty Resources.
To achieve his desired staff productivity results, Loughry hired two veteran workers whose primary duty is to mentor young employees.

It’s not enough to just have a good idea. In order to be successful, an entrepreneur must think through all aspects of their vision to determine if a real business can be developed. Having been involved with several successful companies and product launches, Neil will walk us through how to to grapple with "the flushing out" of a great idea.

Each year, we choose the 35 innovators under the age of 35 whose new technologies seem most gloriously creative and most likely to expand human life. (Here are the 2006 winners.)

The odds will work against you until you accept that startup capital is expensive. Don’t bother to play unless you are willing to pay.

The free CD includes forms and publications for small businesses and tax information for startups.

When it comes to hiring and retaining IT staffs, the future doesn’t look so bright.

The company is bringing its invisible back-end operations front and center. In a series of initiatives launched over the last year, Amazon has begun to rent out parts of its IT infrastructure as Web services.