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Kitchens Sell a House
by lynnrealestate
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Kitchens Sell a House by Carla Hill It's a tool used by house flippers all across the nation. Stagers know its power. Real estate agents push its importance. What is this not-so-well-kept secret of real estate? A kitchen can sell a house.     A kitchen is the heart of a home. This is true all across the globe. ...
Housing Crisis to End in 2012 as Banks Loosen Credit Standards
by lynnrealestate
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Your content here Housing Crisis to End in 2012 as Banks Loosen Credit Standards 01/24/2012 By: Krista Franks Brock Capital Economics expects the housing crisis to end this year, according to a report released Tuesday. One of the reasons: loosening credit. The analytics firm notes the av...
Data Security of Web-based Software
by curvedental
Mar 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Some have questioned the security of web-based dental systems when compared with legacy, office-based, client/server based systems. While the question is reasonable, the answer is very clear. Web-based systems have the capability of providing substantially greater security than any on-site, client/server based system. While ...
Introducing “Revenue Based Financing” by John Knab
Mar 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Raise Funding Without a Personal Guarantee; Dilution; or Loss of Control   During ‘dead week’ in December, I had breakfast with Eliot Ward (Twitter: @eliotlyle) with Rock & Hammer Ventures (rockandhammer.biz) located in Utah. They represent a new hybrid form of funding for Utah-based companies called Revenue Based Finan...
Tomorrow's Offer
by lynnrealestate
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“No matter how bad things get there is always another day.” Cody Thompson Tomorrow’s Offer Every one of us will make a bad choice at least once in our life.  Every one of us will have times when things haven’t gone as we had hoped.  This is especially the case when we are young and trying to find our pat...
What if the Internet Goes Down?
by curvedental
Mar 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Web-based dental software delivers a host of advantages over traditional client-server software. Dental practices that utilize the cloud to manage their practice never worry about installing upgrades, backups, expensive servers and hardware, nor do they pay huge up-front software licensing fees. They also enjoy the convenien...
Living From Your Heart
by lynnrealestate
Mar 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Living From Your Heart Every once in a while something happens in life that causes one to question everything.  Such is the case with a good friend of mine.  I sat with him this week and intently listened to the events that led him to his moment of self discovery. As I listened to him describe his tribulati...
Discovering the Principle of Resilience
by lynnrealestate
Mar 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“Things happened that weren’t supposed to happen.” Crawford Cragun Discovering the Principle of Resilience One of the things I’ve learned about life, through experience, is that everything doesn’t always happen the way I want or in the way I expected it to.  I know I’m not the only one who feels that way...
Increasing Your Fortune
by lynnrealestate
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“Thanks for asking, it’s therapeutic to be able to talk with someone about it.” -Jim McArthur Increasing Your Fortune I met Jim for the first time this week; my friend Stacey introduced me to him.  We scheduled a time when I could come to his office so we could get to know each other before we began to d...
Staff Training is Only a Click Away
by curvedental
Jan 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Turnover in staff is a part of life. People are coming and going all the time due to a number of different reasons. Some of those reasons you may be able to control (if you're nice and pay fairly you may keep staff around much longer than if you're a grouch and you expect people to work only for the opportunity to bask in yo...
Why the Web? Because Access from Home is Automatic
by curvedental
Jan 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
I know doctors who are able to access their dental software from home with their old-fashioned, client-server software. Here's the steps they went through to get there: First, they had to identify which remote access software would work best. Second, they purchased the software (or downloaded unproven, unreliable, or unsu...
Why the Web? Because Checking Production Numbers and X-rays from Starbucks is Kind of Exhilarating
by curvedental
Dec 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Do you remember that first call with a cell phone? With my first phone I was charged for every minute I used on the phone, so I didn't use the phone until several days after I bought it. I remember that well: I was on the freeway and I needed to get a message to my wife quickly. So I took out my new phone, turned it on, a...
Any Person May Become Great
by lynnrealestate
Dec 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“It will make an immense difference with your faith and spirit whether you look upon civilization as a good thing which is becoming better or as a bad and evil thing which is decaying.  One viewpoint gives you a descending and decreasing mind.  One viewpoint will make you grow greater and the other will inevitably cause you ...
Give From Your Heart
by lynnrealestate
Dec 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
“Don’t lend your service; give your service.” - Justin Miller Cole Give From Your Heart There were thousands of lights all around.  The air was cold so I was especially happy to have a daughter on each arm as we walked through the town square.  There were so many people.  Everywhere we turned there were ...
Heard Off The Street: High-Frequency Trading Is Ruining the Market
Dec 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Investment Strategy Group of Contango Capital Advisors provides regular updates on economic and financial market conditions. In this commentary, we offer some thoughts on the increasing volume of “machine trading” and its implications for stock prices … as well as for human investors. The bulk of the New York Stoc...
Heard Off The Street: ETFs: The Good, The Bad and The Illiquid
Dec 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Investment Strategy Group of Contango Capital Advisors provides regular updates on economic and financial conditions. This week, we look at some of the benefits and drawbacks of exchange traded funds. We frequently use exchange traded funds (ETFs) in implementing our portfolio strategies. They give us access to targ...
Heard Off The Street: Now What?
Nov 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Investment Strategy Group of Contango Capital Advisors provides regular updates on economic and financial conditions. This week, we look at the implications of the nation’s lack of fiscal fitness combined with Europe’s imploding monetary union. Just about everything bad is happening at once. In the US, a governme...
Living From Your Core
by lynnrealestate
Nov 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
A pause on the other side of the earth Living From Your Core I was running late, as usual, on a Wednesday evening.  I needed to pick my daughter up from the downtown branch of Salt Lake Community College.  She was getting out of class early and had sent me a text message to let me know.  I was in my office ...
WellDog and tQ Automation sign MOU to bring coalbed methane technical services to Indonesia
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
WellDog and tQ Automation sign MOU to bring coalbed methane technical services to Indonesia Alliance is directed at providing best-in-class technical services to emerging Indonesian CBM market Laramie, Wyoming and Houston, Texas (27 October 2011) - WellDog and tQ Automation announced that they have signed a Memorandum...
Foreclosures regaining momentum, hit 7-month high
Nov 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. foreclosure rate has climbed to its highest level in seven months, suggesting that lenders are moving beyond a "robo-signing" scandal that had temporarily slowed bank takeovers, according to a private firm that tracks the activity. Foreclosure filings — including default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank reposses...
The Sun Cycle Principle
by lynnrealestate
Nov 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“If you have just a little bit of hope left you can make great strides in your life.” -Theo Fleury The Sun Cycle Principle I sat mesmerized as I listened to Theo recount his story.   He told me of how he had been hiding the tale of his being abused from more than twenty years and what a burden it had pla...
After steadying, home prices begin falling again
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer After holding up relatively well this summer, it looks like home prices have begun falling again. For a second month in a row, home prices fell 1.1 percent from the month before as fresh foreclosures continued to add inventory to the glut of unsold homes, according to data from CoreLogic, a ...
Home prices still falling, especially in these markets
Nov 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The National Association of Realtors is just out with its third-quarter median prices by metro area, and the news is not good. Nationwide, the median price for an existing home is down 4.7 percent from a year ago and nearly 14 percent since 2008. But in many markets, the decline is far worse. Realtors said prices fell in 11...
Your Gift to Humanity
by lynnrealestate
Nov 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
“I looked around and saw that everything around me was made by people; bridges, houses, cars, everything.  Then I realized that the people who created all these things were no smarter than I was and my life was changed!” Steve Jobs Your Gift to Humanity When I was growing up I always believed that the adults ...
WellDog awarded downhole gauge supply contract by Arrow Energy
Nov 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Two year contract includes supply and installation of hundreds of pressure measurement systems Brisbane, Australia (3 November 2011) - WellDog announced today that it has won a competitive tender to provide hundreds of downhole pressure gauge systems to Arrow Energy Pty Ltd over the next two years, with work commenci...
Heard Off The Street: A Double-Edged Sword
Nov 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
In this week’s economic/market commentary, Contango Capital Advisors’ Investment Strategy Group observes that the US economy is unlikely to improve significantly until the massive residential mortgage problem is somehow resolved. It also notes that what may seem to be a solution to some could prove to be a nightmare for ...
Heard Off The Street: What’s Up With the Stock Markets?
Nov 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
In this week’s economic/market commentary, Contango Capital Advisors’ Investment Strategy Group examines why emerging market economies continue to grow faster than developed economies while, over the same period, their stock markets have been languishing. The most widely used emerging market stock index is the MSCI EM...
It is the Puritan work ethic that has made us great as a people. by Jessi Butterfield
Nov 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Power of Combining with Others on VentureCapital.org I was driving home from my last appointment on Saturday night when I received a call from my daughter in Brooklyn. Thank goodness for wireless headsets! The call lasted long past my drive time and well into the evening. She had great news to talk with me about....
Starting Anew
by lynnrealestate
Oct 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“I can start over and be the person I want to be every day.” - Alan Bradshaw Starting Anew It was late in the evening.  I was with my friend Alan Bradshaw in his projection room; he owns the Motor Vu Drive-in not far from my house.  Alan was in the process of transferring a movie from the projector back to th...
Creating Venture Quality Deal Flow for Angel Investor Groups by Brad Bertoch
Oct 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The life blood of an Angel Group is deal flow, and not any deal flow, but venture quality deal flow. Finding and building quality deals drive returns, and thereby builds Group cohesiveness, credibility and success. As with any business, you need to market your product and service, just having money is not enough. You need a v...

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