Investor/Partner in Fashion Chain Required
Investor or equity partner required to help expand the business and increase profits. Must have financial management skills. 

Run Your Own eBay Business
Sell popular goods without having to buy them first. UK dropship company offers “excellent profits”.

Textile Business For Sale
Home-based business with offshore manufacturing, website, inventory, etc. Patented textile product has
potential for global sales. 

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Video From The Times: The CEO of Marrone Organic Innovations explains why it is best to hire people who share your values.

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Dynamis - the people behind BOB and other great websites including BusinessesForSale.com, FranchiseSales.com and Ubops.com - has made a film.

We did this because we realised that trying to explain what we did using text in the 'About Us' section of the website was, frankly, too dull.

We live in world dominated by the visual medium - not text. We think think this the way forward for lots of companies - a short film that explains what they do.

So see what Dynamis does, click the 'Play' button under 'Dynamis The Movie' on the homepage:

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At BOB we love business facts. In fact, we spend many lunchtimes quoting them to each other. Here are five things you may not have known:

1. 7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world.

2. If Wal-Mart was a country it would be the 24th richest country on the planet.

3. In Canada, the most productive work day of the week is Tuesday.

4. Microsoft made $16k in its first year of operation.

5. The word Nike is Greek for victory.

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From the BBC If you're thinking about starting your own business, do your homework.

You'll need to do some research both into your business idea and your own suitability.

Running a small business can be hard work - stressful, lonely and time-consuming. It can also be very rewarding, inspiring and lucrative.

Think about why you want to start a business. Are you motivated and resilient? Do you like working alone? Have you got patience and determination? Are you self-confident and flexible?

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If you have ever wondered why businesses fail – here are your answers. Jeff Cornwall, the Director of Belmont University, Nashville, Tennesse cited the following on his blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind.

The blog gives some great advice for anyone thinking of buying a business or those already running one.

10. OVER EXPANSION
The need to get there first or to demonstrate revenue growth to anxious investors leads businesses to grow too fast.

9. POOR CAPITAL STRUCTURE
Companies take on too much debt.

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According to BusinessesForSale.com there has never been a better time to cash in your London home for a business in one of Britain's thriving regions.

A new BusinessesForSale.com survey of over 15,000 businesses for sale revealed that the average price of a freehold business with accommodation in the Midlands, (such as a pub or restaurant) was GBP366,000 - the same figure quoted for the average cost of a London home.

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On Ubops.com anything is possible. Here are this month's top five business opportunities

1. Record Company Seeks Partner

2. Importer of Niche Auto Products Seeks Investor

3. Chinese Perfume Manufacturer Seeks European Expansion

4. USA Import/ Export Company Offers Business Opportunity

5. Plasma TV Wholesaler Offers Cheap TVs

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What is it? A franchise agreement is a contract you have to sign when you buy a franchise.

A franchise agreement is a contract you have to sign when you buy a franchise. It sets out the period of the franchise; the obligations that franchisor and franchisee have to each other; and conditions that allow for the termination of the contract.

Find your ideal opportunity on FranchiseSales.com

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When you start your business your customers will be the driving force behind it.

After all, customers are the lifeblood of any business, whether it is a global corporation with thousands of employees or a sole trader with a handful of regular customers. To make your business a success it is vital that you look at the relationships you have fostered with your customers, and examine how you can keep them happy and maintain a mutually satisfying relationship.

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From BBC News: The inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando, has died in Japan, aged 96, of a heart attack.

Mr Ando was born in Taiwan in 1910 and moved to Japan in 1933, founding Nissin Food Products Co after World War II to provide cheap food for the masses.

His most famous product, Cup Noodle, was released in 1971.

Its taste and ease of preparation - adding hot water to dried noodles in a waterproof polystyrene container - have made it popular around the world.

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Make 2007 the year you changed your life and buy your own business on BusinessesForSale.com

Here are 5 business opportunities under 50k:

1. Men's Grooming Online Retailer Los Angeles, US, $40k

2. Niche Publishing Business London London, UK, 8k

3. Established Online Retail Business Derbyshire, UK, £10k

4. Tanning Salon Houston Texas, US, $47k

5. Luxury Food Hamper Business Dorset UK, £25k

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George Bernard Shaw (pictured left)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
 
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Henry D. Thoreau
You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

Michael Althsuler
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.

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Following on from the Anil Ambani profile, here are some facts about India's energy industry:

-Almost half of India’s electricity is used illegally, for free.
-Slum-dwelling Indians disconnect overhead power lines and connect them to their homes via metal wires.
-Yet the middle-classes and, most shockingly, industrial enterprises also cheat the electricity companies by tampering with meters.
-Most of the state-run electricity companies are close to bankruptcy.
-Power cuts caused by demand exceeding supply are a regular occurrence in the major cities.
-If India’s runaway economic growth of 8% continues, generating capacity will have to grow sevenfold in the next decade.
-Reliance Energy (Ambrani's company) nevertheless still had revenues of $1bn in 2005.

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If anyone personifies how quickly the emerging economies of Asia are catching up with the West, it is Anil Ambani.

His company, Reliance Energy, is now worth $18.1bn, making it the biggest private company in India, second only to state-owned oil enterprise ONGC.

Ambani is responsible for many of the initiatives that have brought Indian finance into the 21st century. He was the first to offer international public offerings of global receipts, convertibles and bonds, and directed Reliance’s attempts to raise billions from the international financial markets. As a result, over 3.1 million people are investors in the group.

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From Business Week: Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000

When the stock market reached the height of irrational exuberance in 2000, the bubble was filled largely with the hopes of technology startups going public. That year, 170 high-tech companies sold nearly $19 billion of stock to investors in initial public offerings.

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Many resolutions this year involve career advancement.

A poll by myGoals.com found that starting a business ranked second only to losing weight as the most popular New Year's resolutions for 2007. Other resolutions on the list were: being financially independent, starting the search for a new job, or becoming a vice president.

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BusinessInaCan.com interviewed HSBC start up award winner Gavin Wheeldon about his translation business. His clients include Primark, Nike, Eriksson, the United Nations and Robbie Williams.

Initially a one-man operation, Applied Language Solutions now has 55 staff, translates into 140 languages, and has offices in California, Paris, Barcelona, Sofia and Guatemala City.

Interviewer: You started your translation business in your bedroom. Now you provide translation services for Robbie Williams. How does that feel?

Gavin: Pretty good; it’s not bad going in less than three years.

Interviewer: What made you go into this industry?

Gavin: I come from a technology background and starting working with a language company, so that gave me a view of the translation industry as a whole. I found it so archaic – I couldn’t believe it. I thought, well, if you put some solid processes in, get a decent sales structure and use technology properly, then this market is ripe for a new type of company. We were really bringing technology to an academic-based industry.

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From The Guardian After YouTube and MySpace, what next? As the internet continues to change at a breathtaking pace, David Smith goes to Silicon Valley to meet the architects of the next web explosion

The people spilling out of Ritual Coffee Roasters on to the San Francisco sidewalk scent more than coffee beans. Inside there are twenty and thirtysomethings, most of them male, working intently at laptops and harnessing the power of the internet. They are not merely logging on to look at MySpace or YouTube or The Next Big Thing. They plan to be The Next Big Thing.

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