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Creating local prosperity
BY JODIE GILMORE For the VBJ
Maintaining local business vitality isn’t easy in a global marketplace, but one way to keep the focus on your own back yard is local currency, say proponents of the system.
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Do you know the rules?
BY JOHN BACHOFNER Bullivant Houser Bailey
Washington has the 13th highest rate of identity theft in the nation, according to the most recent data from the Federal Trade Commission Identity Theft Clearinghouse, and a three-year study completed in 2006 by the Council for Better Business Bureaus shows the cost of identity theft nationally is $56.6 billion per year.
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B+F Briefs
BY VBJ STAFF
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Banking $mart in 2008
BY JODIE GILMORE For the VBJ
Clark County bankers predict 2008 will be “complicated.” But most see opportunities amongst the obstacles.
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Are you there yet?
BY TAWNIE NELSON Wells Fargo
Your business had a storybook beginning. It started as an idea on a cocktail napkin. World headquarters was the garage at home. And office hours were before sunrise to well past bedtime.
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Creating capital
BY SUZY OUBRE Alliance Commercial Credit Group
Get ready for the pendulum to swing the other direction.
The banking environment has been a very competitive market for the last several years, which has worked to the borrowers advantage. However, now with things tightening in the financial marketplace, accessing commercial credit is only going to become more and more difficult.
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Angels are alive in Clark County
BY JODIE GILMORE For the VBJ
We all know it takes money to make money. But if you’re a cashless entrepreneur with a great idea, where do you turn? A number of start-up companies are getting their funding from angel investors.
According to the New Hampshire-based Center for Venture Research, angels invested $11.9 billion into U.S. startups during the first half of 2007. Part of those dollars was invested right here in Clark County – local high-tech firm Lightfleet Inc., in business since 2003, is 100 percent angel-funded, according to CEO John Peers.
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Business sales follow a basic framework
BY JEFF KRAAI
Perhaps there’s a health emergency in your family. Or you’re ready for your first real vacation in years. Maybe a significant financial upsurge or downturn is signaling the time is right for you to sell. Whatever the reasons for wanting to sell, it is essential to understand there are key steps you can take to maximize your financial and emotional yield.
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B+F Briefs
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Tricky business
BY JODIE GILMORE For the VBJ
Driving blind. That’s how Bill Ward described a business that doesn’t generate monthly financial statements. A managing principal of Management Engineering Assoc., a Camas-based organizational consulting and planning company, he has six employees and has done his own accounting for 22 years.
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