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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.