Terry Finley
Hobby: Horse racing aficionado
Business: West Point Thoroughbreds
2011 Revenue: $6.5 million
When Terry Finley bought his first horse, Sunbelt, for $5,000 in 1991, he felt stuck in his job selling life insurance. Finley had been be ...
Posted Thursday, May 2nd 2013 at 8:19PM
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http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-q1-earnings-2013-5
LinkedIn earnings are out!
The market reaction is not good. The stock is plunging, falling 11% after hours.
While it delivered beats on the top and bottom line, its guidance for next ...
Posted Thursday, May 2nd 2013 at 5:55PM
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Why would a company with billions of dollars in the bank — and no plans for a large investment — decide to borrow billions more?
High & Low Finance
Floyd Norris writes the High & Low Finance column for the Friday Business section.
Author Bi ...
Posted Thursday, May 2nd 2013 at 5:35PM
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Organic Avenue, the tiny purveyor of high-end juices, fresh salads and specialty foods like cashew scallion cream cheese and Thai collard wraps, has hired a new chief executive with the goal of turning its new owner’s dreams of a national chain int ...
Posted Thursday, May 2nd 2013 at 4:49PM
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The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of ...
Posted Thursday, May 2nd 2013 at 4:42PM
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LONDON -- While crippling austerity in Europe and fiscal obstacles could put the brake on growth rates there, in developing regions a backdrop of accommodative central bank action, elevated commodity prices, and rising personal affluence levels have ...
Posted Thursday, May 2nd 2013 at 2:53PM
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Posted by: Phil Buckley on May 01, 2013
Constant change is a business reality, and organizations must continually adapt to their environments to stay competitive or risk becoming obsolete. That is why the ability to incorporate big changes into the ...
Posted Wednesday, May 1st 2013 at 9:40PM
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FORTUNE – They say money can't buy happiness, but a new study suggests it actually can. In fact, the more money you have, the happier you are.
That might sound obvious to some people, but studies have historically shown there's more to happiness ...
Posted Wednesday, May 1st 2013 at 4:38PM
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/actiontrumpseverything/2013/04/07/the-one-thing-all-successful-entrepreneurs-have-in-common-a-case-study/ ...
Posted Tuesday, April 30th 2013 at 10:32PM
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BlueTie, a company started by David Koretz provides e-mail services for businesses. When the company started to get hacked, David knew he needed to find a solution. Organized crime figures started to steal credit card numbers, workers were sabotaging ...
Posted Tuesday, April 30th 2013 at 5:35PM
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Successful entrepreneurs give their insight into how you should begin and test your new entrepreneurial idea. ...
Posted Monday, April 29th 2013 at 10:35PM
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Hal Gregersen is an author and professor of innovation and leadership at graduate business school Insead. What follows are edited excerpts from his discussion at the Unleashing Innovation conference.
On fostering entrepreneurship: The data would s ...
Posted Monday, April 29th 2013 at 10:39AM
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Posted Monday, April 29th 2013 at 10:28AM
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This article is about finding the right investor(s) in your company and what characteristics to look while searching.
Finding investors for your company can be a great way to obtain capital; but are there good or bad investors? Absolutely! Accor ...
Posted Sunday, April 28th 2013 at 3:43PM
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The market is continuing to ride the bullish support line with major stock indexes displaying straight gains for the fourth day in a row. Both the Nasdaq composite index and the S&P 500 show an additional 0.2% added at market close today. Double t ...
Posted Thursday, April 25th 2013 at 12:40AM
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We see it every day at the office: the I'm-in-pain-because-I'm-working-so-hard face. It may look convincing, but it's not a metric for effectiveness.
"It's an illusion that the harder and faster we work, the better our solutions will be," says Dia ...
Posted Thursday, April 25th 2013 at 12:19AM
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was one of the most recognizable, respected and feared entrepreneurs in the tech industry. Aspiring business owners continue to look to Jobs' accomplishments for inspiration and motivation.
Jobs led Apple to profitabili ...
Posted Thursday, April 25th 2013 at 12:05AM
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Every successful business is built on relationships. That old cliché, "It's not what you know, it's whom you know"--is perfectly true.
Just ask Josh Hartwell, who started Mobile Deluxe in 2003 and built it into a force in the mobile gaming world ...
Posted Sunday, April 21st 2013 at 4:21PM
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If you've shopped recently for—well, pretty much anything, you know how the retail world is mobilizing the check-out experience: Big retailers like Nordstrom, Guess and Sephora are all taking their cue from Apple and offering their customers an alt ...
Posted Thursday, April 18th 2013 at 5:58PM
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Coming home to find your fiancée's diamond engagement ring abandoned on the table doesn't seem like a situation with many upsides. But for Josh Opperman, the end of a romantic relationship left him engaged with something far shinier.
In an effort ...
Posted Thursday, April 18th 2013 at 1:02PM
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In 2008, software engineer Vidur Dhanda was consulting on a risk management project on Wall Street when he noticed a fundamental problem: Even the country’s biggest lenders, in the midst of the financial crisis, did not have good data on the health ...
Posted Tuesday, April 16th 2013 at 9:07PM
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