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    Crowdfunding Industry in Business: An Alternative Source for Finance Funding Providing a Unique Opportunity to Make Money Executive Summary For many years, startups and small businesses had a difficult time in raising equity and debt in order to grow and expand. Furthermore, under the laws, ordinary investors, such as friends, family, peers, and strangers are restricted to invest. Today, with a stagnant economy, many startups and businesses are struggling more than ever just to survive. With

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    In a world where pay phones have become nearly obsolete, the US Postal Service continues to debate cutting back on mail delivery, stocks can be traded through an app on a cell phone and web retailers such as Amazon.com can have nearly any product delivered tomorrow morning, technology continues to change the world we live in. This essay will serve to outline and demonstrate by examples how IT efforts have created ways to run, grow and even transform business practices as we have known them. How

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    SMALL BUSINESS SHOULD BE EXEMPT FROM UNFAIR DISMISSAL LAWS   Introduction In this context, the main aim of the topic is to focus on the policy debates regarding the protection from the unfair business laws in relation with the small business sectors. This research will help the students in order to analyze the different competing perspectives in order to see the industrial relations and to find the key importance to the business, individuals and the society to a larger extent. As can be seen

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    Following areas can be focused for selling the Indian grains and pulses:  Indian grocery stores: This will be first and the most important segment to get in the product to the targeted customer. Indian grocery stores already carry some pulses which they buy from specific distributor. But there is always opportunity to enter in these stores with unique variety of pulses and offering it cheaper to establish the market.  Super markets: American super markets like Costco and Winco carry variety of

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    International Business

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    might turn into the biggest organization on the planet for almost 200 years. In the United States, for example, almost 90 percent of firms that export employ fewer than 100 people. They also account for more than 20 percent of U.S. exports. If the small firm is actively involved in international trade as are most little firms in specific areas in Europe, case in point then worldwide business is an extremely important subject to study particularly if consolidated with cutting edge European dialects

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    Equal Employment Opportunity Law & Small Business The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a “five-member body appointed by the President to establish equal employment opportunity policy under the laws it administers” (p. 827, Twomey & Jennings, 2014). The EEOC is “responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person 's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older)

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    Small businesses form a critical part of the economy and play a key role in the creation of jobs and improving the livelihoods of many individuals in the society. However, in the advancement of technology and the use of information systems by these businesses, there has grown a threat to the continued successful operations of these businesses due to the threat of cyber attacks. This paper will focus on researching on the current information security landscape of small businesses, specifically

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    6:15 How Much is a Database Worth? 1) Many small business owners have found it financially advantageous to purchase their own building. As one owner remarked upon his retirement, “We did well with the business, but we made our real money by buying the building.” Explain why this might be so. There are three reasons why a small business owner might want to own the building in which they operate. First, the cost of moving around is expensive. Some small business might need large equipment to operate

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    What Is E Commerce?

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    What is E-Commerce? Electronic trade, otherwise called E-Commerce is business exchanges led electronically on the web. E-commerce was presented in the 1960s through an electronic information exchange (EDI) on quality included systems (VAN). Numerous block – and – mortar retailers that were working out of physical structures lost business to online organizations, for example, Amazon, and EBay. Thus, e-commerce has developed throughout the years; organizations from Walmart to little one individual

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    Being a small business owner can be very demanding, and most entrepreneurs know that running a small business can be a juggling act, often spreading themselves thin performing many different jobs during the course of a single day. With the primary responsibility for the success of their business resting on their shoulders, they know that better time management is key Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,

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