SEC Should Reconsider Sarbanes-Oxley Extensions For Small Business
The Office of Advocacy today praised Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commissioners Paul Atkins and Kathleen Casey for their willingness to reconsider the SEC decision not to extend the deadline for small public firm compliance with section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Advocacy wrote to the commissioners in the wake of the SEC’s decision not to grant postponement of deadlines for public firms with less than $75 million in market value.
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Business First; Developing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Looking back on American history, you realize that the early leaders of our country were at heart entrepreneurs. Risk-takers boarded ships to make a dangerous ocean crossing, looking for new opportunities in a new land. Later adventurers loaded wagons and headed west for the same reason.
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The Domains Of The Day
How two Boston entrepreneurs are making millions from names as simple as chocolate.com. The fact that Andrew Miller and Michael Zapolin don't speak German was never a problem, until the two Internet investors decided to buy the domain name "choco-late.com." The owner, a man in Germany who didn't speak English, was content to paper the site with ads for chocolate companies and collect pocket change whenever someone clicked on one.
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Boost Connectivity with Broadband VoIP
Tower Travel Management (www.towertravel.com), founded in 1979, provides corporate, online, meeting, and leisure travel services. In 2002, the company was operating offices in downtown Chicago and in Oak Brook, Illinois, but felt held back by its legacy phone system—an Avaya Legend PBX in each office. Tower decided to stick with Avaya, installing the IP Office 412 VoIP phone switch. Employees from the downtown Chicago office, armed with broadband, firewall, Avaya handsets, and PCs, began working from home. Tower closed the downtown Chicago office.
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Inflation Is Just Hot Air
There's inflation and then there's inflation. Investors seemed none-too-miffed by Thursday's report of a larger-than-expected increase in U.S. wholesale prices last month, possibly because the rise seemed to be contained to gasoline prices.
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Congrats - you're the new boss. Now what? Tips for ruling that new empire you've been handed.
So you put your time in, did a yeoman's service to the company, and you've won a senior management position. Way to go, tiger. But it's funny, isn't it? After the celebratory steak dinner, the pat on the back from colleagues and friends, reality sinks in: You have absolutely no idea how to be the boss.
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