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100 Financial Calculators For Entrepreneurs

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Many entrepreneurs don’t have the luxury of having a separate accounting department, instead doing their own number crunching. It’s not always easy, but you can make it less difficult by making use of the huge number of free financial tools for businesses that are available on the Internet. Here are 100 calculators that can help you get and keep your finances in order.

Bootstrapper has put together an excellent list of online calculators that every entrepreneur sometimes needs.

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Most Entrepreneurs Plan to Stay

Inc.:

For many entrepreneurs, growing a business from scratch is akin to raising a child — which is perhaps why so many are reluctant to let go, according to a new survey.

Of 201 business owners whose companies have at least $10 million in annual revenue, 32 percent said they have no plans for choosing a successor, according to the survey conducted by GFK Roper Public Affairs for SunTrust Bank Private Wealth Management.

While 44 percent plan to pass their business on to a family member or promote someone within the company, only 14 percent plan to sell their business to a third party. In addition, about 70 percent of respondents expect they will remain tied to their business in some capacity - mostly as consultants or board members — even after handing over the reigns to new leadership, the survey found.

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Smallville - Nicodemus

Smallville session 1, episode 15 - Nicodemus.

The story about, dr. Steven Hamilton (Joe Morton) uses the meteor rocks to resurrect a toxic flower, Nicodemus, which has been extinct for 100 years. The flower causes whoever it sprays to lose all inhibitions.

Jonathan, lana and pete are all infected with the flower's toxins, and begin to act out of character. Clark manages to prevent them all from harming themselves or someone else.

After awhile, the flower's toxins cause the victim to fall into a coma and eventually die. lex, unhappy that dr. hamilton has spent his time resurrecting dangerous flowers, dispatches a team of specialists to create a cure for the poisoning. The cure is created in time to save jonathan, lana and pete.

Smallville - Zero

Smallville session 1, episode 14 - Zero.

A story partially told in flashback, as it seems someone who was killed on a night gone wrong at Club Zero in lex's past is back from the dead. All this, and chloe digs too deep into clark's past for comfort, and bo's cows are killed.

Lex's past comes back to haunt him, when jude royce, a man presumed to be dead, resurfaces after three years and kidnaps lex. He tortures him in an attempt to get lex to reveal the truth about the cover up of Jude's death. Jude's ex-finance's brother is revealed to be the true orchestrater, having found someone willing to undergo surgery to look like Jude.

Angered over his sister's suicide, which he believes is the fault of lex; he wants lex to pay for her death. Clark saves lex's life, but is worried about lex's past. During a class project, chloe discovers inconsistency in clark's adoption and it puts strain on their friendship.

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

StartUp Journal:

Should aspiring entrepreneurs pursue M.B.A.s? There’s been a long-brewing debate among academics and entrepreneurial minds over whether business school is worth the hefty price tag for those looking to go into business for themselves.

British entrepreneur Anita Roddick wrote recently that entrepreneurs “are people who imagine things as they might be, not as they are, and have the drive to change the world. Those are qualities that business schools do not teach.”

Going to business school, she adds, may even squelch “what entrepreneurial flair you have as they force you into the template called an M.B.A. pass.” Instead of flocking to business school, she urges aspiring entrepreneurs to focus on building their creative energies and learning to evaluate risks.

Plenty of others disagree, claiming M.B.A.s give prospective entrepreneurs a chance to learn the ins-and-outs of running a business in a classroom environment without the high price of failure you’d get in the real world.

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Smallville - kinetic

Smallville session 1, episode 13 - Kinetic.

The story began when whitney, after losing his football scholarship, begins hanging with some ex-jocks. The jocks are using meteor rock saturated tattoos to give themselves the ability to pass through solid objects.

The thieves rob lex's mansion, and chloe is severely injured when clark is incapable of getting to her in time, after being weakened by the meteor rock tattoos the thieves wore. The thieves decide to recruit whitney, but he has second thoughts.

Clark helps whitney and lex, who is now being blackmailed, fight the thieves. With their powers growing weak, from overuse of the serum, clark is able to subdue them.

Smallville - Leech

Smallville session 1, episode 12 - Leech.





The story is about clark's powers are transferred to another young man. As this young "Superboy" gets known for better or for worse, Clark comes to term with the fact that he no longer has powers.


In more details of this epidode at started during class field trip, lightning strikes Clark and a fellow classmate, Eric Summers, while Eric is holding a piece of meteor rock. Clark's powers are transferred to Eric, allowing Clark to finally live a normal life.


Eric initially uses the powers for good, but the abilities being to go to his head and he starts to abuse them. After being injured in a fight with Eric, Clark decides to sacrifice the chance at a normal life so that Eric does not hurt anyone else.


Hoping he took his weakness along with his strength, Clark confronts Eric at an electrical generator, and uses the electricity, along with a meteor rock, to get his powers back.

Blogs Are Profitable

The San Francisco Chronicle has nailed it: “Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable!”
Apart from the optimistic title, however, the article does a pretty good analysis of the blogosphere, highlighting both its strengths and weaknesses.

Check this quotation:

The blogging world has tremendous strengths - original voices, provocative
opinions, imagination and intimate knowledge of a variety of subjects. But it is
also an industry struggling to mature, many observers argue. They say blogging
companies must overcome the industry’s reputation as a sort of digital Wild West
where anything goes, and confront such questions as conflicts of interest,
product hype, bias and low standards of accuracy.

That is the scenario we should be aiming for; where blogs become just another content management system. Not online diaries. Not a bunch of teenagers sharing their frivolous thoughts and experiences.

Women Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur:

A new survey sponsored by RSM McGladrey and the National Association of Women Business Owners has created a profile of today’s average woman entrepreneur.

After surveying 650 women across the country, the 2007 Survey of Women Business Owners found that women entrepreneurs are more educated.

Here are other key findings from the survey:
They take more risks. Sixty percent of women surveyed would use up to 95 percent of their personal savings or put up their home as collateral for a loan to start or expand their business.

They have been successful for a while. More than 60 percent of the businesses surveyed have been in operation six or more years, higher than the 40 percent reported through other surveys for all businesses.

They started young. Forty percent of businesses with more than $6 million in revenue were started by women between the ages of 20 and 29.

They can get financed. Less than 6 percent have gone to a bank and never been able to receive financing.

They have a family life and run a business. Sixty-eight percent are married, higher than the national average of 53 percent for working women. And 67 percent of those surveyed have children.

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Business Just A Game For Entrepreneur?

What a big said from.

The Cape Breton Post:

Matt Swan was looking for a way to build a local business that would enable him to stay home in Cape Breton, earn a living and spend more time with his young family.

One day, he was looking at a common local image made up of lines and squares, and it hit him: business is just a game. Well, at least that’s true in Swan’s case.

“I was looking at the Cape Breton tartan and thought that would make an interesting checker board,” he said.He finally settled on a cotton cloth game board, wood doweling rack for the wooden checkers and a clear plastic waterproof carrying case. A printed sheet of instructions, with a description of the Cape Breton tartan, is included.Swan prints the game boards and he and his wife, Shannon, assemble the game parts at their home on Rudderham Road in Point Edward.
The printing process is a trade secret. But Swan said the best part about his product is that he can customize the game board for any use, including tourist operations, corporate promotions or conventions.

Now, Swan sells the Cape Breton checkers game from his home and it is available in more than 20 retail outlets in and around the island.

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Smallville - Hug

Episode 11, Smallville 1. Hug.




The summary of the story about two salesmen were transformed in 1989 and gifted with the same power of persuasion. One decided to go into hiding before his powers got him into trouble; another decided to use his power for reasons of evil and also use his kryptonite-based ability to force anyone he touches to obey his commands.


Bob Rickman is one the transformed salesman that has the ability to bend others to his will, because of an incident with the meteor rocks years earlier. Rickman has plans to put a new pesticide plant in Smallville, and he needs the Kent farm to do it. Rickman uses his ability to convince Jonathan to sell the farm. Clark seeks out Kyle Tippet for assistance, after learning the two were salesmen who were both caught in the meteor shower. Rickman uses his ability to convince Lex to kill both Clark and Kyle. While Clark is battling Lex, Kyle, who has more control over the ability, forces Rickman to take his own life.