Getting the money to start your own business / by Barringer, Bruce R., Safari Books Online, FT Press

Table of Contents: “…Cover13; -- Getting the Money to Start Your Own Business -- Skimpy Finances Can Be a Blessing Rather Than a Curse -- Techniques That Enable Business Owners to Minimize Start-up Costs -- Calculating Your Initial Start-up Costs -- How To Calculate Your Start-up Costs -- Finding Information on Start-up Costs -- Determining the Financing That Youll Need -- Personal Funds, Loans from Friends and Family, and Bootstrapping -- Loans from Friends and Family -- Bootstrapping -- Debt Financing -- Equity Funding -- Business Angels -- Venture Capitalists -- Grants: It Takes the Right Fit -- Persistence Pays Off: Finding Alternative Sources of Start-up Funds -- Business Plan Competitions and Other Contests -- State and Community Small Business Loan and Assistance Programs -- Patriot Express Pilot Loan Initiative -- Loan and Grant Programs for Women and Minority Business Owners -- Customer and Supplier Financing -- Tapping into Personal Funds -- Endnotes.…”
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The art of capital restructuring : creating shareholder value through mergers and acquisitions / by Safari Books Online

Table of Contents: “…Standard Valuation Methods for M & As / Pablo Fernandez -- Real Options and Their Impact on M & As / Hemantha Herath, John S Jahera -- The Law and Finance of Control Premiums and Minority Discounts / Helen Bowers -- Cross-Border Valuation Effects in Developed and Emerging Markets / Wenjie Chen -- The M & A Deal Process. …”
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Using Microsoft® Publisher 2010. by Safari Books Online

Table of Contents: “…-- Getting Started -- System Requirements -- Minimum Hardware Requirements for Office 2010 -- System Requirements for Publisher 2010 -- Operating System Requirements -- My Recommendations -- Verifying Your System's Hardware -- Installing Office 2010 -- What's New in Publisher 2010 -- The Ribbon -- How Documents Are Displayed -- Going Backstage -- Printing -- PDF and XPS Support -- Image Controls -- Minor Improvements -- What's Up with Web Mode? -- 2 Getting Started with Publisher 2010 -- Using Publisher for the First Time -- Creating a New Document -- Page Margins -- Custom Margins -- Grid Guides -- Built-In Guides -- Ruler Guides -- High-Precision Guides -- Using Multiple Ruler Guides -- Enabling and Disabling Rulers -- Enlarging Rulers -- Changing the Units of Measurement -- Moving Rulers -- Moving the Zero Mark -- Page Orientation -- Page Sizes -- Page Backgrounds -- Templates -- Web- Based Templates -- Locally Installed Templates -- The Anatomy of a Template-Based Document -- Changing Templates -- Creating a Custom Template -- Saving Your Documents -- Alternative Document Types -- Creating a New Document -- Opening a Publisher Document -- 3 Working with Visual Elements -- Text Boxes -- Creating a New Text Box -- Entering Text into a Text Box -- Fonts -- Purchasing Fonts -- Typography -- Installing a Font -- Previewing a Font -- Formatting Pictures -- Transparency -- Picture Styles and Shapes -- Changing a Picture -- Picture Captions -- Changing a Caption's Color -- Going Beyond Simple Colors -- Gradients -- The Texture Tab -- Patterns -- Photos -- Tint -- Clip Art -- Clip Art Key Words -- Copyright Issues -- Shapes -- Adding a 3-D Effect -- Coloring a Shape -- Layering -- Other Objects -- Drawings -- Equations -- 4 Designs and Layouts -- Calendars -- Additional Customizations -- Postcards -- Greeting Cards -- Additional Visual Elements -- Color Schemes -- Word Art -- Creating Building Blocks -- 5 Working with Longer Documents -- Text Boxes Revisited -- Formatting -- Linking Text Boxes -- Navigating Text Boxes -- Layout Strategies -- Master Pages -- Additional Master Page Options -- Importing Microsoft Word Documents -- Adding Images to the Document -- Word Documents with Images -- Wrapping Text Around Images -- Irregularly Shaped Images -- Formatting Text Boxes -- Text Fitting -- Text Direction -- Hyphenation -- Alignment -- Columns -- Word Art Lite -- Drop Cap -- Number Styles -- 6 Tables -- What Are Tables? …”
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