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Digital Library > Legal Issues and Taxes > Bankruptcy “When a Customer Goes Bankrupt… Act Quickly” To recover product shipped shortly before your customer announced bankruptcy, inform the company and the bankruptcy court within 10 days of when you delivered product of your intent to reclaim your products from the bankrupt company. Warning: If your product is being used as…
Digital Library > Acquiring and Managing Finances > Financing “Cash Is There If You Look” There’s plenty of cash out there to finance U.S. businesses, but many entrepreneurs don’t know how to find it, reports a recent study. Though $60 billion in private equity went to new businesses in 1998, $56 billion of that amount came from family, friends and…
Digital Library > Human Resources Management > Health care “Rein in Health Insurance Rates” Entrepreneurs who provide health insurance to their workers faced soaring premiums last year. Small-business owners with less than 10 employees paid 9.2% more for group health insurance in 1999, compared with an average of 4.8% for all businesses, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family…
Digital Library > Operations and Technology > Internet “Europeans Move to Web” Europe’s information and communication technology grew 12% in 1999, beating that year’s U.S. growth rate of 8.1%, reports the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO). This trend is expected to continue through 2001. Half of the European Union’s population will be Internet users by 2003 vs. 20% currently, estimates…
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