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Business Investment or Divine Intervention: Understanding Angel Investors

You’ve already gone to friends and family for help. You know your company doesn’t qualify for a bank loan. And it’s too early for venture capital. So what’s an entrepreneur to do? Start looking for an angel investor. Angel investors — private individuals who invest their own money in companies — fund more companies at an earlier stage with more dollars than any other kind of capital.

Understanding MySQL Privileges in Linux

MySQL has become increasingly popular in the last year because of its ease of use and price. Setting up a MySQL Server on a Windows machine is so easy you may not even realize it is there. Installing MySQL on a Linux machine isn’t quite as easy, but anyone with any experience installing programs on Linux wouldn’t have a problem. So, now that you have your server installed, how do you manage a multi-user environment? This is where your privileges come in.

Understanding Applications Service Providers (ASPs)

Thirsty?
You could haul water from the river every morning and boil it on the stove for bathing and drinking. You’d have to wake up alot earlier than you do now in order to get to work on time.
But think of all the money you’d save!

Well, I guess it wouldn’t be that much.

Your water company provides all the processing and piping that makes water a usable and convenient resource, all for a monthly fee, saving you the trouble of finding and cleaning your own steady supply.

Understanding Merchant Accounts

My decision to write this article is in result of my awareness that new business owners, usually, are totally confused about how credit card acceptance really works. Regardless of the type of business you may have, the procedures are always the same and are really quite elementary.

The following is a list of names of all the pieces involved in the merchant account puzzle:

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