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business
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The financial results came despite investments for start-up businesses and to handle increased telephone usage.
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There were no start-up business opportunities that I could afford.
company
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The time has come for start-up companies like mine to turn all our efforts into something concrete.
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In short, the start-up company receives not only funding, but valuable advice to help it avoid pitfalls.
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The case is based on a real start-up company for whom the author worked as a consultant on financial planning and valuation.
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This is the project of Odin Corporation, a new start-up company in Manhattan, Kansas.
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Many small start-up companies will fail in the 1990s just as they have always failed.
costs
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The start-up costs of a travel agency have been relatively small.
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Bush said his office is making $ 30, 000 available to help pay start-up costs .
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But the start-up costs are huge.
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See what the normal start-up costs are for renting and furnishing an office, a salesroom, or a studio.
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start-up companies
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a start-up budget of $90,000
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Several start-up Net companies saw their share prices rocket in the first few years, only to see them plunge as the recession hit.
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But to take ViaCord beyond the start-up phase, Fisher this year plans to seek $ 6 million in venture capital.
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It provides start-up dialogues, macro dialogues and exit dialogues to open and close applications.
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Kenyon wound up shaving not one but three seconds off the start-up time, sparing a hundred extra souls from the Reaper.
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See what the normal start-up costs are for renting and furnishing an office, a salesroom, or a studio.
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The company, called VacTex Corp., has raised $ 1 million in start-up funds.
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The time has come for start-up companies like mine to turn all our efforts into something concrete.
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With savings of £20,000 you could expect to finance a franchise with a start-up cost and working capital of £60,000.
II. noun
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new
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More understandably, perhaps, was our spelling the new software start-up Kapre Software Inc Capri.
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For new start-ups , the figure rises to over three-quarters.
small
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Former rally driver Jean Denton is battling to reduce red tape and bureaucratic burdens on small firms and start-ups .
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Start-Up A second type of small business start-up will have the advantage of venture backing from a larger company.
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These networks belong to several domains-universities, government institutions, large private companies, and small entrepreneurial start-ups .
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It is not necessary to be a small start-up .
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business
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Compared with the rest of the country, California now has above-average growth in jobs, exports and business start-ups .
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Start-Up A second type of small business start-up will have the advantage of venture backing from a larger company.
software
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More understandably, perhaps, was our spelling the new software start-up Kapre Software Inc Capri.
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Internet start-ups
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There were 4000 start-ups in Silicon Valley in 1998.
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Compared with the rest of the country, California now has above-average growth in jobs, exports and business start-ups.
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Details of the USWeb plan were not available, but sources say the start-up will offer prospective franchisees a turnkey operation.
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Former rally driver Jean Denton is battling to reduce red tape and bureaucratic burdens on small firms and start-ups.
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I was peripherally involved in a somewhat obstructionist way in the start-up of C-SPAN.
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It is not necessary to be a small start-up .
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New start-ups provided 14 percent, and new branches 18 percent.
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Those transient troubles occurred on especially cold mornings at initial start-up .
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Typical of such an arrangement is the funding provided by Compaq Computers to a start-up in 1986.