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Peer-to-Peer Lending Gives New Options to Startups
Sometimes securing a business loan can be a difficult proposition. Banks are often hesitant to lend money to startup businesses or ones with poor credit. If your business finds itself in this situation, don’t fear: there are other options.
A fairly new borrowing option for individuals and businesses is peer-to-peer lending, also known as crowdsourcing, person-to-person lending, social lending or p2p lending. Simply stated, peer-to-peer allows a person or company to borrow money without ...
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Making Sense of the New Excise Tax on
The healthcare reform law included, in the revenue raisers, a new 2.3 percent manufacturers excise tax on medical devise sales...read full article here
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11/21/2011 1:08:45 PM |
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White House Council Calls for Small Businesses
Recently, UTC has been invited to participate on White House Council monthly calls. Last month David Kappos, the Undersecretary of Commerce for IP spoke. The USPTO is trying to reduce costs, process patents faster and get the other processes under control. The time to grant has been reduced from 37 to 33 months so some progress has been made. Their intention is that no great invention should go without patent protection, so they just launched the first pro bono patent program for very small ...
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Utah Technology Council (UTC) Supporter of WIN America
May 16, 2011
-Bringing Private Sector Earnings Home to USA for Economic Growth, Deficit Reduction-
The Utah Technology Council (UTC) is among the growing list of companies, organizations and individuals in favor of WIN (Working to Invest in America), new bipartisan legislation that removes the barriers to as much as $1 trillion in private sector investment money returning to America to grow our economy and to reduce Federal debt.
Introduced by Congressmen Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Jim Matheson (D-UT), th...
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UTC Support Letter on Behalf of S.B. 59 - School Grading System (Sen. Niederhauser, W.).
Mar 7, 2011
Dear Legislator:
On behalf of the members of the Utah Technology Council (UTC), I write to inform you that UTC has taken a high-priority position to support S.B. 59 – School Grading System (Sen. Niederhauser, W.).
Since education became our top priority in 2006, UTC has been at the forefront in advancing rigor and relevance in STEM education. We were the only organization who worked with the State School Board to increase high school requirements for math, science, and language arts ...
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