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Business Black Belt

Business Expansion Financing

Business Financing

Business Financing Links

  • Small Business Loans
    Research a variety of loan options and find the right small business loan for your company.
  • List Your Deal with Technology Venture Alliance
  • Bank Rates
  • RHP is a VC Relations company: The trusted conduit to reach the venture capital community.
    Rebekah founded Right-Hand Partners based on her own experiences as an entrepreneur seeking start-up capital. During those years, she attended and presented at venture conferences, built a team, developed products, and hired consultants and professional service providers. Even after spending thousands of dollars and hours, she was often unsatisfied with the results for her money and time. She found very few providers that produced deliverables that proved they could see through the eyes of the entrepreneur.

    Therefore, Rebekah decided to be THE "solution" for entrepreneurs... someone that could be counted upon as a "right-hand partner": to often make the first move on behalf of her clients, to facilitate critical introductions, and to catalyze business transactions that will catapult them to the next level. Right-Hand Partners has done just that, working selectively with cutting-edge startup companies and leading venture capital and angel groups throughout the SF Bay Area.

    Since founding RHP in 2001, Rebekah has coached 28 companies raise over $160M of venture capital. 6 of those companies have been acquired. She has produced over 150 events bringing together active VCs and quality entrepreneurs.

    Rebekah was not only an experienced Founder and CEO of a software startup, but she was previously the E-Commerce Strategy Mgr. at a Fortune 1000 company, and a Regional Mgr. of Internet Solutions at AT&T. Rebekah’s #1 passion is singing classical sacred music and is currently the soloist at St. Joseph of Arimathea.

    Rebekah Wu
    Right-Hand Partners (RHP)
    (415) 875-9544 TEL
    (415) 354-3300 FAX
    rwu@rhpartners.com
    www.rhpartners.com

  • A Primer On Intrinsic Value
    The Intrinsic Value Style of Investment Management is a businessperson’s way of evaluating a business or investment. Rather than just buying a stock, we invest in a company based on our estimate of the company’s investment value. That investment value is what we call the intrinsic value. Intrinsic value will be defined in the next section, but for now let us look at why the intrinsic value concept is so useful.
  • Become a Business Finance Consultant
    We teach and certify individuals who are accepted into our network, how to provide companies with almost any type of business financing. Own your own loan brokerage company and keep 100% of fees earned on transactions! Visit us today to find out more about this business opportunity!

Business Law

Business Planning

Business Planning Links

Business Planning: Finance Resources

Business Planning: Information Just for YOU

Business Planning: Start-Up Resources

Business Start-Up

Business Start-Up Links

  • California Colleges Search - community colleges & schools
    Search engine for California colleges, community colleges, schools and universities.
  • United Inventors Association
    The site of the United Inventors Association. This is a not-for-profit organization that helps inventor groups and inventors in North America. Much information, and an excellent collection of books for inventors in its Inventor's Bookstore.
  • Inventors' Digest
    The site of North America's only magazine dedicated exclusively to inventors. It is published by Joanne Hayes-Rines, who works tirelessly to improve the plight of inventors. Ads from known unethical service providers are not accepted. Jack Lander has written a featured column in Inventors' Digest for the past eight years. To subscribe phone 1-800-838-8808.

Business Start-up Financing

Continuing Education

Exit Strategy

Facilities

for YOU

for YOU Links

  • How to be an amazing speaker
    Do you want to be a better speaker?
    Do you want to be amazing?

    I’ve got a great resource for you! My friend, Doug Stevenson, has just released his new book: Never Be Boring Again – Make Your Business Presentations Capture Attention, Inspire Action, and Produce Results. I have a copy and it is fantastic. It is an inspiring, detail-rich, unconventional book on the most effective presentation skill you can possess – how to strategically use stories to make your points and captivate your listeners. I’ve worked with Doug and he is really good! The book covers his Story Theater Method, which includes how to choose your stories, how to craft them using a nine-step formula, and how to act out key parts of the story using comedy and drama skills. It’s really some of the most amazing philosophy and technique you will ever read.

  • A good personal development website:
    Goals-2-Go.com AsAManThinketh.net MP3motivators.com GettingRichWitheBooks.com
  • The Passion Test
    Take The Passion Test - Then take action to follow your passions and start fulfilling your life's purpose by serving another.
  • SelfGrowth.com
    SelfGrowth.com, the #1 Internet super-site for self improvement and personal growth.

Government

Government Links

  • Reach Politicians Here
  • New Web Helps State Lawmakers Create Business Friendly Climate
    New Web Helps State Lawmakers Create Business Friendly Climate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advocacy’s New Web Page Offers A One-Stop For Proposed Legislation, Current State Laws, Statistics, And Information

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – State legislators, small business owners, and activists in the fight for economic development now have a new web tool in their arsenal. Launched today, the Office of Advocacy’s web page on its initiative for state regulatory policy offers a wealth of information on current state laws, proposed legislation, statistics, information and much more.

    The new web tool, located at www.sba.gov/advo/laws/law_modeleg.html, is the latest step in Advocacy’s promotion of small business friendly regulatory policy at the state level. In December 2002, Advocacy presented draft model regulatory flexibility legislation to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for consideration by state legislators. ALEC endorsed the model legislation earlier this year.

    Since then many states have taken steps to encourage small business friendly regulations. North Dakota and Colorado both enacted new legislation and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed an Executive Order giving small businesses a voice in his state’s regulatory process.

    The legislation, modeled after the federal Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), would require state agencies to consider their impact on small business before imposing regulatory mandates. By listening to small businesses, state agencies can ensure that small business resources that would have been spent on over burdensome new regulations are instead available for hiring new employees and making new investments. At the same time, agencies still meet their regulatory goals such as higher environmental quality, greater travel safety, better workplace conditions, and increased family financial security.

    Currently, states offer a patchwork of laws that protect small business owners and their employees from excessive regulatory mandates. Some states offer protections similar to the RFA that mirror the role of the Office of Advocacy. Other states offer little or no protection from the one-size-fits-all regulatory mentality.

    For more information on small business friendly regulation for states, visit the new Office of Advocacy web page at www.sba.gov/advo/laws/law_modeleg.html.

Health Updates

Hiring

Human Resources

Human Resources Links

Import / Export

Import / Export Links

  • UK Academic Data
    Targeted contact lists of UK head teachers and heads of departments.

Internet

Investors

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Legal & IP

Legal & IP Links

Managing

Managing Links

  • Global Business Exchange
    GlobalBX™ is a free business for sale listing exchange that provides a confidential forum to facilitate the buying and selling of businesses with thousands of businesses for sale, classifieds, and franchise opportunities as well as comprehensive business information for business buyers and business sellers. Buy a business, sell a business, or find a business broker.
  • Handwriting Analysis
    This woman is really good... Check out her website, perhaps order the books or take the seminars! She has shown me many useful secrets within handwriting that tell many things people either are unaware of or won't admit!
  • Total Logistics Control
    James R. Pawlik & Associates, Ltd.
    International Logistics & Physical Distribution Consultants
    1611 Russell Court * Arlington Heights, IL 60005-3443
    847-255-3000 * FAX 847-749-3000 * jrpawlik@wowway.com

    “Total Logistics Control” is in a nutshell the result of a six step analytical, development and implementation process that incorporates cost justifiable technologies to deliver your product to customers with acceptable service levels at a minimum total landed cost.

    We first complete a thorough methods improvement analysis of the entire procurement and fulfillment process. We use a Business Process Analysis tool developed for re-engineering projects to analyze the base system and then perform extensive Work Simplification analysis to identify alternatives that minimize average and total process time and costs. We develop standard operating methods, layouts and procedures for all common warehouse labor operations, and develop a rational storage location scheme for the entire facility. Finally, we generate Euclidean location coordinates for all storage and staging locations in the facility to provide an accurate basis for measuring travel distances and time. If you utilize an internal delivery fleet we study and improve transportation operations as well.

    We discuss these recommendations with your Senior Management and develop an Implementation Plan.
    We train your supervisors and laborers to work with and use these procedures.
    We develop and install computer generated Engineered Performance Standards for all common direct labor operations. We have found that the differences between how long it should take (Engineered Performance Standards) and how long it has taken in the past (Historic Standards) are often forty percent or more!
    We train your supervisors to use the Labor Productivity Reporting and Scheduling system to identify problems and take swift corrective action whenever performance does not meet expectations.
    We audit the system annually, and incorporate new and proven technologies using reasonable return on investment criteria.

    Our staff consultants have more than a century of expertise developing and improving warehousing and delivery operations worldwide, and we have completed successful engagements for more than 260 distribution and manufacturing companies.

    We would be happy to visit your facility and provide an accurate estimate of potential improvements and cost savings. We charge only for any travel and lodging expenses incurred and will prepare and present a detailed proposal of services that will include strategies and suggestions that will in itself save your company money. Please feel free to contact me directly for further information and to discuss your specific needs.

Marketing

Marketing Links

Media & PR

Media & PR Links

  • Marken Communications
    A solid mixture of science and art, public relations goes beyond the issuance of periodic news releases. It covers everything a company does and says. The articles in this section provide advice and experience in optimizing the organization's image, visibility, mindshare and marketshare.

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Safety

Safety Links

  • Safety Community . com
    Welcome to the first online community created exclusively for the workplace safety industry. This is a social networking site designed just for you – safety managers, foremen, safety engineers, factory and construction workers, and anyone for whom workplace safety is a profession or passion.

Sales

Security

Tax

Tax Links

Technology

Technology Links

Venture Capital

Women Business Owners

Women Business Owners: Resources to help you succeed

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