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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

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credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. The accounts receivable turnover ratio is your annual net sales divided by your annual accounts receivable. Reduce inventory.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Summary version? No chart was good. My prognosis? We have a two-track economy.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

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The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose with Liz Elting

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I had the opportunity to live in a number of foreign countries, Portugal when I was little, then Canada when I was 10 until college, and then I did my junior year in Spain and I worked in Venezuela, and I was able to study four languages, so Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Latin loved languages. What led you to start TransPerfect?

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

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With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. Failure plagues those who believe in the traditional business plan; the long-term planning model; the belief that sales and marketing numbers are facts.

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3 Businesses That Have Fared Spectacularly During The Lockdown

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One company ideally positioned for booming sales is Property Lisbon , an estate agency in the capital of Portugal with properties which are suitable for the budding AirBnB entrepreneur or the long-term resident. Sales of tops have gone up in particular, with everyone wanting to look smart on Zoom calls.’.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

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Apples first weekend iPhone 4S sales surpass 4 million. Social Media. Latin America. Middle East. United States. Previous story. Next story. -->. How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps. 16th September 2011 by Harrison Weber. Story Toolbox. Murdochs Sun newspaper reportedly shuns paywall in favor of paid mobile apps and ads.